Proverbs 4:5
Get wisdom, get prudence: forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Posside sapientiam, posside prudentiam : ne obliviscaris, neque declines a verbis oris mei.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- μὴ ἐπιλάθῃ· μηδὲ παρίδῃς ῥῆσιν ἐμοῦ στόματος
- Hebrew (WLC)
- קְנֵ֣ה חָ֭כְמָה קְנֵ֣ה בִינָ֑ה אַל תִּשְׁכַּ֥ח וְאַל תֵּ֝֗ט מֵֽאִמְרֵי פִֽי
The Fathers on this verse
St Jerome The Letters of St. Jerome, To Nepotian
3. Who, then, is this Shunamite, this wife and maid, so glowing as to warm the cold, yet so holy as not to arouse passion in him whom she warmed? Let Solomon, wisest of men, tell us of his father’s favorite; let the man of peace recount to us the embraces of the man of war. “Get wisdom,” he writes, “get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. Forsake her not and she shall preserve thee: love her and she shall keep thee. Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom, and with all thy getting get understanding. Exalt her and she shall promote thee. She shall bring thee to honor when thou dost embrace her. She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.”