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Proverbs 4:8
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Cherish her, and she will exalt you;if you embrace her, she will honor you.
Esteem her, and she will exalt you. She will bring you to honor, when you embrace her.
Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.
Prize her highly, and she will exalt you; she will honor you if you embrace her.
Treasure wisdom, and it will make you great; hold on to it, and it will bring you honor.
Esteem her highly and she will exalt you; she will honor you if you embrace her.
"Prize wisdom [and exalt her], and she will exalt you; She will honor you if you embrace her.
"Prize her, and she will exalt you; She will honor you if you embrace her.
Esteem her, and she will exalt you. She will bring you to honor, when you embrace her.
Exalt her, and she shall exalt thee: she shall bring thee to honour, if thou embrace her.
Prize her, and she will exalt you;She will honor you if you embrace her.
Prize her, and she will exalt you; if you embrace her, she will honor you.
If you value Wisdom and hold tightly to her, great honors will be yours.
Cherish her, and she will exalt you; embrace her, and she will bring you honor;
Exalt her, and she shall promote thee; she shall bring thee to honour when thou dost embrace her.
Love wisdom, and she will make you great. Hold on to wisdom, and she will bring you honor.
Love her, and she shall exalt you; embrace her, and she shall honor you.
Love wisdom, and she will make you great. Embrace her, and she will bring you honor.
Cherish her and she will exalt you; she will honor you if you embrace her.
Exalt her, and she will lift you up; she shall bring you to honor when you embrace her.
Make moch of her, and she shal promote the: Yee yf thou embracest her, she shal brynge the vnto honoure.
Exalt her, and she will promote thee; She will bring thee to honor, when thou dost embrace her.
Put her in a high place, and you will be lifted up by her; she will give you honour, when you give her your love.
Extol her, and she will exalt thee; she will bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.
Exalt her, and shee shall promote thee: shee shall bring thee to honour, when thou doest imbrace her.
Make much of her, and she shall promote thee, yea if thou embrace her, she shall bryng thee vnto honour:
Secure it, and it shall exalt thee: honour it, that it may embrace thee;
Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.
Take thou it, and it schal enhaunse thee; thou schalt be glorified of it, whanne thou hast biclippid it.
Exalt her, and she will promote you; She will bring you to honor, when you embrace her.
Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honor, when thou dost embrace her.
Exalt her, and she will promote you; She will bring you honor, when you embrace her.
If you prize wisdom, she will make you great. Embrace her, and she will honor you.
Honor her and she will honor you. She will honor you if you hold her to your heart.
Prize her highly, and she will exalt you; she will honor you if you embrace her.
Exalt her, and she will set thee on high, she will bring thee to honour, when thou dust embrace her:
Take hold on her, and she shall exalt thee: thou shalt be glorified by her, when thou shalt embrace her.
Prize her highly, and she will exalt you; she will honor you if you embrace her.
Exalt her, and she doth lift thee up, She honoureth thee, when thou dost embrace her.
"Prize her, and she will exalt you; She will honor you if you embrace her.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Proverbs 3:35, Proverbs 22:4, 1 Samuel 2:30, 1 Kings 3:5-13, Daniel 12:3
Reciprocal: Proverbs 14:29 - exalteth Ecclesiastes 8:1 - a man's James 1:4 - perfect and
Cross-References
Time passed. Cain brought an offering to God from the produce of his farm. Abel also brought an offering, but from the firstborn animals of his herd, choice cuts of meat. God liked Abel and his offering, but Cain and his offering didn't get his approval. Cain lost his temper and went into a sulk.
God spoke to Cain: "Why this tantrum? Why the sulking? If you do well, won't you be accepted? And if you don't do well, sin is lying in wait for you, ready to pounce; it's out to get you, you've got to master it."
God said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" He said, "How should I know? Am I his babysitter?"
God said, "What have you done! The voice of your brother's blood is calling to me from the ground. From now on you'll get nothing but curses from this ground; you'll be driven from this ground that has opened its arms to receive the blood of your murdered brother. You'll farm this ground, but it will no longer give you its best. You'll be a homeless wanderer on Earth."
God told him, "No. Anyone who kills Cain will pay for it seven times over." God put a mark on Cain to protect him so that no one who met him would kill him.
"You can't squirm out of this: Every drop of righteous blood ever spilled on this earth, beginning with the blood of that good man Abel right down to the blood of Zechariah, Barachiah's son, whom you murdered at his prayers, is on your head. All this, I'm telling you, is coming down on you, on your generation.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Exalt her, and she shall promote thee,.... Christ is to be exalted in his person, by asserting his proper deity; by ascribing all divine perfections to him; by allowing him to be the author of all divine works; by giving him divine worship and homage; by owning his divine and eternal sonship, and distinct personality: he is to be exalted in all his offices of Prophet, Priest, and King, and as the only Redeemer and Saviour; by trusting in him, embracing his Gospel, and submitting to his ordinances, and such that exalt him, he will "promote" them here and hereafter; of which more in the next clause. According to the Talmudists u, the word for "exalt" signifies a diligent search, by turning things about to find out what is sought; and so the Septuagint interpret the word in the sense of "searching",
Jeremiah 50:26;
she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her: by faith: for this is an act of faith, and a very considerable one, and is expressive of great nearness to Christ, of much intimacy and familiarity with him, of strong love and affection to him, of a good degree of boldness used with him, and of joy and exaltation in him; for such an action is used by persons near akin, and are very familiar with, and have a very great affection for one another, and use much freedom with each other, and rejoice at meeting together. Now such who embrace Christ, in the arms of their faith, as their alone Saviour, such he promotes and "brings to honour"; not to honour among men, for to embrace Christ and exalt him is the way to disgrace, though the disgrace is an honour, and will be before long rolled off; but to honour hereafter. Such will be set at his right hand, and be owned by him before his Father and his angels; and they will be placed on the same throne with him, and will reign with him for ever and ever; see 1 Samuel 2:30.
u T. Bab. Roshhashanah, fol. 26. 2.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The counsel which has come to him, in substance, from his father. Compare it with 2 Samuel 23:2 etc.; 1 Chronicles 28:9; 1 Chronicles 29:17; Psalms 15:1-5; Psalms 24:1-10; Psalms 37:0.
Proverbs 4:7
Or, “The beginning of wisdom is - get wisdom.” To seek is to find, to desire is to obtain.
Proverbs 4:12
The ever-recurring parable of the journey of life. In the way of wisdom the path is clear and open, obstacles disappear; in the quickest activity (“when thou runnest”) there is no risk of falling.
Proverbs 4:13
She is thy life - Another parallel between personified Wisdom in this book and the Incarnate Wisdom in John 1:4.
Proverbs 4:16
A fearful stage of debasement. Sin is the condition without which there can be no repose.
Proverbs 4:17
i. e., Bread and wine gained by unjust deeds. Compare Amos 2:8. A less probable interpretation is, “They eat wickedness as bread, and drink violence as wine.” Compare Job 15:16; Job 34:7.
Proverbs 4:18
Shining ... shineth - The two Hebrew words are different; the first having the sense of bright or clear. The beauty of a cloudless sunshine growing on, shining as it goes, to the full and perfect day, is chosen as the fittest figure of the ever increasing brightness of the good man’s life. Compare the marginal reference.
Proverbs 4:19
Compare our Lord’s teaching John 11:10; John 12:35.
Proverbs 4:20
The teacher speaks again in his own person.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 4:8. She shall bring thee to honour — There is nothing, a strict life of piety and benevolence excepted, that has such a direct tendency to reflect honour upon a man, as the careful cultivation of his mind. One of Bacon's aphorisms was, Knowledge is power; and it is truly astonishing to see what influence true learning has. Nothing is so universally respected, provided the learned man be a consistent moral character, and be not proud and overbearing; which is a disgrace to genuine literature.
