32Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
ALEPH. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD. …
A Song of degrees. Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways.
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. …
Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 32-36)We have here the application of Wisdom’s discourse; the design and tendency of it is to bring us all into an entire subjection to the laws of religion, to make us wise and good, not to fill our heads with speculations, or our tongues with disputes, but to rectify what is amiss in our hearts and lives. In order to this, here is, I. An exhortation to hear and obey the voice of Wisdom, to attend and…
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