잠언 Chapter 24

Translation: ESV

3

By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established;

Key Message

A home is built and made firm not by material resources but by wisdom and understanding.

▸The building of a home depends on wisdom and understanding.

The building of a home depends on wisdom and understanding. This means not just a physical house but that the whole life of a family is built on wisdom. Verse 4 continues—by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches—completing the principle that wisdom brings abundance to a home.

Related Verses

Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
10

If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.

Key Message

Standing firm in adversity is genuine strength; losing heart easily reveals an insufficiency of inner strength.

▸One's attitude in adversity reveals the actual measure of one's strength.

16

for the righteous falls seven times and rises again, but the wicked stumble in times of calamity.

Key Message

The righteous have the resilience to rise again no matter how many times they fall; this is the key distinction from the wicked.

▸The distinguishing characteristic of the righteous is resilience—the ability to rise again after failure.

29

Do not say, 'I will do to him as he has done to me; I will pay the man back for what he has done.'

Key Message

Do not harbor revenge and seek to repay in kind. Vengeance belongs to God.

▸This is a warning not to act from revenge.