Proverbs 3:13 Cross References - LXX2012

¹³ Blessed is the man who has found wisdom, and the mortal who knows prudence.

¹ And the queen of Saba heard of the name of Solomon, and the name of the Lord, and she came to try him with riddles. ² And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train; and [there came] camels bearing spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and she came in to Solomon, and told him all that was in her heart. ³ And Solomon answered all her questions: and there was not a question overlooked by the king which he did not answer her. ⁴ And the queen of Saba saw all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he built, ⁵ and the provision of Solomon and the sitting of his attendants, and the standing of his servants, and his raiment, and his cupbearers, and his whole burnt offering which he offered in the house of the Lord, and she was utterly amazed. ⁶ And she said to king Solomon, [It was] a true report which I heard in my land of your words and your wisdom. ⁷ But I believed not them that told me, until I came and my eyes saw: and, behold, the words as they reported to me are not the half: you have exceeded in goodness all the report which I heard in my land. ⁸ Blessed [are] your wives, blessed [are] these your servants who stand before you continually, who hear all your wisdom. ⁹ Blessed be the Lord your God, who has taken pleasure in you, to set you upon the throne of Israel, because the Lord loved Israel to establish [him] for ever; and he has made you king over them, to execute judgment with justice, and in their causes.

²³ And Solomon increased beyond all the kings of the earth in wealth and wisdom. ²⁴ And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom which the Lord [had] put into his heart.

⁴ and if you shall seek it as silver, and search diligently for it as for treasures;

⁵ and do not neglect the speech of my mouth. ⁶ And forsake it not, and it shall cleave to you: love it, and it shall keep you.

⁸ Secure it, and it shall exalt you: honor it, that it may embrace you; ⁹ that it may give to your head a crown of graces, and may cover you with a crown of delight.

³² Now then, [my] son, hear me: blessed is the man who shall listen to me, and the mortal who shall keep my ways; ³³ [Hear wisdom and be wise, and be not strangers to it. ] ³⁴ watching daily at my doors, waiting at the posts of my entrances. ³⁵ For my outgoings are the outgoings of life, and [in them] is prepared favor from the Lord.

¹ A man who wishes to separate from friends seeks excuses; but at all times he will be liable to reproach.

¹⁵ and should find in it a poor wise man, and he should save the city through his wisdom: yet no man would remember that poor man. ¹⁶ And I said Wisdom is better than power: yet the wisdom of the poor man is set at nothing, and his words not listened to. ¹⁷ The words of the wise are heard in quiet more than the cry of them that rule in folly. ¹⁸ Wisdom is better than weapons of war: and one sinner will destroy much good.