Proverbs 3:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.

Proverbs 3:13 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 8:32-35
Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways. …
Proverbs 4:5-9
Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. …
Ecclesiastes 9:15-18
Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. …
1 Kings 10:23-24
So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom. …
1 Kings 10:1-9
And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 13-20)

Solomon had pressed us earnestly to seek diligently for wisdom (Prov. 2:1), and had assured us that we should succeed in our sincere and constant pursuits. But the question is, What shall we get by it when we have found it? Prospect of advantage is the spring and spur of industry; he therefore shows us how much it will be to our profit, laying this down for an unquestionable truth, Happy is the ma…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 13)

13. findeth--literally, “reaches,” or “obtains by seeking.” getteth--literally, “draws out,” as metals by digging.