John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 4:8
Pro 4:8 Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her. Ver. 8. Exalt her, and she shall. ] Have a high and honourable esteem of her and her children. Rabbi Solomon, out of the Talmudists, renders it, Search for her, minutatim in ea singula consectans, do it diligently, as holding every parcel of her precious, as men do the very filings of gold. read more
John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 4:7
Pro 4:7 Wisdom [is] the principal thing; [therefore] get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. Ver. 7. Wisdom is the principal thing. ] Say the world what it will, a drachma of this wisdom is worth a pound of wit. Let others censure with the scribes, let me wonder with the multitude. And for wealth he is rich, not that hath the world, but that can contemn it. As for honour, virtue is a thousand escutcheons. And that is the true nobility, whereof God is the top of the kin,... read more