Saying 21

By wisdom a house is built,(A)
    and through understanding it is established;

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Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:

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14 The wise woman builds her house,(A)
    but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down.

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14 Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.

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For we are co-workers in God’s service;(A) you are God’s field,(B) God’s building.(C)

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For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.

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Invitations of Wisdom and Folly

Wisdom has built(A) her house;
    she has set up[a] its seven pillars.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 9:1 Septuagint, Syriac and Targum; Hebrew has hewn out

Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:

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rooted(A) and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught,(B) and overflowing with thankfulness.

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Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

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12 But God made(A) the earth(B) by his power;
    he founded the world by his wisdom(C)
    and stretched out the heavens(D) by his understanding.

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12 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.

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26 so that your name(A) will be great forever. Then people will say, ‘The Lord Almighty is God over Israel!’ And the house of your servant David will be established(B) in your sight.

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26 And let thy name be magnified for ever, saying, The Lord of hosts is the God over Israel: and let the house of thy servant David be established before thee.

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