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Proverbs 3:16
16Wisdom is ready to give you a long life. She will also give you riches and honour.
Proverbs 3:16 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.
- New International Version (NIV)Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Length of days is in her right hand, In her left hand riches and honor.
Context of Proverbs 3:16
14Wisdom helps people better than silver or gold will ever help them. 15Wisdom is more valuable than the most expensive jewels. Nothing that you might want for yourself is as good as wisdom. Wisdom is ready to give you a long life. She will also give you riches and honour. 17Wisdom will be your guide through a happy life. She will lead you in ways that keep you safe. 18Wisdom is like a tree with fruits that give life to the people who pick them. The Lord blesses everyone who keeps hold of wisdom.
Read all of Proverbs 3Proverbs 3:16 word by word
אֹ֣רֶךְ יָ֭מִים בִּֽימִינָ֑הּ בִּ֝שְׂמֹאולָ֗הּ עֹ֣שֶׁר וְכָבֽוֹד׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 3:16
- Proverbs 3:2If you obey them, you will live a long life. You will have peace in your mind. and you will enjoy your life.
- Proverbs 4:10So listen to me, my child, and accept my teaching. If you do, the years of your life will be many.
- Psalms 21:4He asked you to keep his life safe, and you gave to him a long life. His descendants will continue for ever.
- Psalms 71:9Do not chase me away when I am old. When I am no longer strong, do not turn away from me.
- 1 Timothy 4:8People say this: ‘If a person works to make his body strong and healthy, that will help him a little. But if a person works to live in a way that makes God happy, that will help him much more. It will help that person in his life now on earth. It will also help him in his future life with God in heaven.’
- Proverbs 4:6If you keep hold of wisdom, she will keep you safe. She will protect you if you love her.
- Proverbs 8:18I am able to give people riches and honour. I help people to use their money well and to do what is right.
- 1 Kings 3:13I will give you even more than this. I will make you rich and famous, even though you did not ask for that. As long as you live, there will be no other king who is greater than you.
- Mark 10:30Now, in this world, God will give those people many more things than they have left behind, even 100 times more! Yes, they will receive houses and brothers and sisters. They will receive mothers and children and fields. As well as all this, people will be against them. But in the future world, they will live for ever with God.
- 1 Corinthians 3:21Because of that, you should not be proud of any human leader. All leaders are there to serve you, as God's people.
- 2 Corinthians 6:10We seem to be sad, but really we are always happy. We seem to be poor, but we make many people rich. We seem to have nothing, but really we have everything.
Commentaries on Proverbs 3:16
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 16Length of days is in her right hand - A wicked man shortens his days by excesses; a righteous man prolongs his by temperance. In her left hand riches and honor - That is, her hands are full of the choicest benefits. There is nothing to be understood here by the right hand in preference to the left.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 13-20Verses 13-20 No precious jewels or earthly treasures are worthy to be compared with true wisdom, whether the concerns of time or eternity be considered. We must make wisdom our business; we must venture all in it, and be willing to part with all for it. This Wisdom is the Lord Jesus Christ and his salvation, sought and obtained by faith and prayer. Were it not for unbelief, remaining sinfulness, and carelessness, we should find all our ways pleasantness…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 16-1716-17. Wisdom personified as bringing the best blessings (compare Mt 6:33; 1Ti 4:8).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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