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Proverbs 24:14
Know therefore that wisdom is sweet to your soul. If you find it, there is a future for you, and your hope will never be cut off.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The speaker addresses a younger reader, placing the instruction between a honey metaphor in the preceding verse and a warning against the wicked in the following verse. The moment occurs within a sequence of practical directives contrasting righteous pursuit with hostile plotting.
The words — חָכְמָה (chokhmah) translates to "wisdom," and אַחֲרִית ('acharît) translates to "a future" or "last end." The text states that wisdom is sweet to the soul and guarantees a future for those who find it.
The thread — This motif of wisdom's inward sweetness and enduring hope appears in Proverbs 2:10 and Jeremiah 15:16, while James 1:25 links steady attention to the law with unbroken hope.
Why it lands — The text commands recognition that wisdom nourishes the inner self and secures an uncut hope for those who pursue it. It requires the reader to actively seek wisdom as the practical basis for a stable future.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.
Cross-references
- Proverbs 2:10 For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul.
- James 1:25 But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does.
- Jeremiah 15:16 Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became my joy and my heart’s delight. For I bear Your name, O LORD God of Hosts.
- Psalms 119:103 How sweet are Your words to my taste—sweeter than honey in my mouth!
- Proverbs 23:18 For surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
- Proverbs 2:1 My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,
- Proverbs 3:13 Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who acquires understanding,
- Proverbs 22:18 for it is pleasing when you keep them within you and they are constantly on your lips.
- Psalms 19:10 They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb.
- Psalms 119:111 Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.