Proverbs 2:3 Yes, if you cry after knowledge, and lift up your voice for understanding; No kind of knowledge is to be despised. The bee gathers honey from every flower. What shore so bleak, what moor so barren, what rocks so naked from which we may not carry home some interesting object, in the shape of plant or mineral? So there are no circumstances in which we are placed, or persons, the humblest, with whom we can associate, without learning something we did not know before; something of value which, while interesting, may not one day prove useful, an example of the familiar proverb, "Keep a thing for seven years, and you will find the use of it." ( T. Guthrie, D.D.) Parallel Verses KJV: Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;WEB: Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding; |