Proverbs 4:8 {9}
Good News Translation
Love wisdom, and she will make you great. Embrace her, and she will bring you honor.

New Revised Standard Version
Prize her highly, and she will exalt you; she will honor you if you embrace her.

Contemporary English Version
If you value Wisdom and hold tightly to her, great honors will be yours.

New American Bible
Extol her, and she will exalt you; she will bring you honors if you embrace her;

Douay-Rheims Bible
She shall give to thy head increase of graces, and protect thee with a noble crown.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

She shall give to thy head increase of graces, and protect thee with a noble crown.

Proverbs 3:35 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend, that you may know prudence.

Proverbs 22:4 The fruit of humility is the fear of the Lord, riches and glory and life.

1 Samuel 2:30 Wherefore thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should minister in my sight, for ever. But now saith the Lord: Far be this from me: but whosoever shall glorify me, him will I glorify: but they that despise me, shall be despised.

1 Kings 3:5-13 And the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, saying: Ask what thou wilt that I should give thee. . . .

Daniel 12:3 But they that are learned, shall shine as the brightness of the firmament: and they that instruct many to justice, as stars for all eternity.

Context
A Father's Instruction
7Take hold on her, and she shall exalt thee: thou shalt be glorified by her, when thou shalt embrace her. 8She shall give to thy head increase of graces, and protect thee with a noble crown.9Hear, O my son, and receive my words, that years of life may be multiplied to thee.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:30
Wherefore thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should minister in my sight, for ever. But now saith the Lord: Far be this from me: but whosoever shall glorify me, him will I glorify: but they that despise me, shall be despised.

Songs 2:6
His left hand is under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me.

Proverbs 4:7
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