Proverbs 4:8 KJV — MannaFest

Proverbs 4:8

Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.

KJV

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ASV

Exalt her, and she will promote thee; She will bring thee to honor, when thou dost embrace her.

WEB

Prize her, and she will exalt you; if you embrace her, she will honor you.

YLT

Exalt her, and she doth lift thee up, She honoureth thee, when thou dost embrace her.

DBT

Exalt her, and she shall promote thee; she shall bring thee to honour when thou dost embrace her.

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Proverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.

Author: Solomon principally (1:1; chs 10–22:16 and 25–29 explicitly); Agur (ch 30); Lemuel's mother (ch 31:1–9); editorial compilation by Hezekiah's men (25:1).
Date: Solomon's reign c. 970–930 BC; Hezekiah's editorial layer c. 715–687 BC.

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Daniel 12:3
And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.
Proverbs 14:29
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
1 Samuel 2:30
Wherefore the Lord God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the Lord saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
Proverbs 3:35
The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.
Proverbs 22:4
By humility and the fear of the Lord are riches, and honour, and life.

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), as worldly men love their wealth and set their hearts upon it. Religion should be very dear to us, dearer than any thing in this world; and, if we cannot reach to be great masters of wisdom, yet let us be true lovers of it; and what grace we have let us embrace it with a sincere affection, as those that admire its beauty.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

(1.) By way of precept and exhortation. David, in teaching his son, though he was a child of great capacity and quick apprehension, yet to show that he was in good earnest, and to affect his child the more with what he said, expressed himself with great warmth and importunity, and inculcated the same thing again and again.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Concur with God in his purpose, which is to magnify the law and make it honourable, and do what thou canst to serve that purpose." Let Wisdom's children not only justify her, but magnify her, and prefer her before that which is dearest to them in this world.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

However, religion will, first or last, bring all those to honour that cordially embrace her; they shall be accepted of God, respected by all wise men, owned in the great day, and shall inherit everlasting glory.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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