The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 1:8-19
1. First admonitory discourse. Warning against enticements to robbery and bloodshed. read more
Proverbs 1:17-21 Niv
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The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 1:10-19
Warnings against the evils of the time An unsettled time, one of violence and insecurity of life, appears to be indicated, such as has only its occasional parallel in our society. Yet the perverted impulses which lead to open crime are those which induce every species of dishonesty and more subtle attacks upon the life or property of others. We may thus draw from a particular description some general lessons. But it seems to give more point and force to the passage if we view it as... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 1:10-19
The peril and the wisdom of youth: a sermon to the young Hew many human lives are nothing better than failures! How many souls are there that "make shipwreck of faith and a good conscience"! Over how many of the children of men do the wise and the holy mourn, as those who might have done well and wrought good, but who have turned aside to folly, guilt, and ruin! As a rule, these have gone astray in their younger days. Temptation assailed them when they were comparatively unarmed, attacked... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 1:17
Surely in vain the net is spread in the face of any bird. The teacher here advances a second reason in support of his warning in Proverbs 1:15 , under the form of a proverb in its strict sense. It is based on the ill-advised audacity of sinners in flying in the face of God's judgments. In vain ( חִנָּם , khinnam ) , see Proverbs 1:11 , may be taken in two senses. read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 1:18
And they lay wait for their own blood, etc. The third reason or argument why the teacher's warning should be followed, drawn from the destruction which overtakes the sinners themselves. "Lay wait," and "lurk privily," as in Proverbs 1:11 , from which this verse is evidently borrowed. They propose, as they say, to lay wait for the blood of others; but it is, says the teacher, for their own blood. לְדָמָם ( l'dhammam ), contra sanguinem suum ; they lurk privily. as they say,... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 1:19
So am the ways of every one that is greedy of gain. The epiphonema or moral of the preceding address. So are the ways, or such is the lot (as Delitzsch), or such are the paths (as Zockler), i.e. so deceitful, so ruinous, are the ways. כֵּן ( chen, ) is here used as a qualitative adverb. Ways ; אָרְחוֹת ( ar'khoth ) , the plural of אֹרַח ( orakh ) , a poet. word, equivalent in the first instance to "way," i . q. דֶרֶךְ ( derekh ) , and... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 1:20
Wisdom crieth without. Wisdom . The Hebrew word ( khochmoth ) here used to designate Wisdom seems to be an abstract derivation from the ordinary khochmah. The form is peculiar to the Proverbs and Psalms, in the former occurring four times ( Proverbs 1:22 ; Proverbs 9:1 ; Proverbs 14:1 ; Proverbs 24:7 ), and in the latter twice only (viz. Psalms 49:4 ; Psalms 78:15 ). As in Proverbs 9:1 and Proverbs 24:7 , it is a pluralis excellentiae of the feminine gender, a... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 1:20-23
The gospel call This cry of Wisdom is a sort of evangel of the Old Testament religion. It is an anticipation of the gracious invitation subsequently put forth by the Christian truth. That, too, is a cry of Wisdom; for is not Christ the "Wisdom of God" ( 1 Corinthians 1:24 ), and "made unto us Wisdom" ( 1 Corinthians 1:30 )? We of the latter times, therefore, may hear in the preaching of Solomon the call of the glorious gospel of the blessed God. I. THE CHARACTER OF THE ... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 1:20-23
The voice of Wisdom Wisdom is here personified; it is the language of poetic inspiration. Later on, "in the dispensation of the fulness of times," Wisdom was manifested in human form, and spake in the hearing of men. But its voice has never been silent altogether, from the beginning until now. We are reminded of it— I. THAT THERE ARE MANY CHANNELS THROUGH WHICH WISDOM UTTERS ITS VOICE . The plural form of the word ("wisdoms") suggests the manifoldness of the... read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 1:20
Wisdom crieth - Here wisdom is again personified, as it is frequently, throughout this book; where nothing is meant but the teachings given to man, either by Divine revelation or the voice of the Holy Spirit in the heart. And this voice of wisdom is opposed to the seducing language of the wicked mentioned above. This voice is everywhere heard, in public, in private, in the streets, and in the house. Common sense, universal experience, and the law of justice written on the heart, as well as... read more