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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 3:33-35

YHWH’s Dealings With Both The Righteous And The Wicked (Proverbs 3:33-35 ). As regularly in the first four chapters (Proverbs 1:32-33; Proverbs 2:21-22; Proverbs 4:18-19) the section ends with a contrast between YHWH’s dealings with the righteous/ lowly/wise and the wicked/scoffers/fools, although the language here is stronger, referring to cursing and blessing in good Deuteronomic fashion. This stresses the fact that God divides mankind into two, one section being those who hear and respond... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 3:1-35

Proverbs 3:1-2 Samuel : . Fourth Discourse.— The sage exhorts the young man to heed his oral instruction ( torah) , and to trust in Yahweh, fear Him, and honour Him in the prescribed manner of firstfruits. It is interesting to find torah used in its earlier prophetic sense of oral instruction, without reference to its later sense of the whole body of legislation represented by the Pentateuch. The torah of the wise man represents not his own individual authority, but the accumulated wisdom of... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 3

PROVERBS CHAPTER 3 Solomon exhorteth his son to obedience, Proverbs 3:1-4. To faith, Proverbs 3:5,Proverbs 3:6, and trust in God; the benefits that they shall receive thereby, Proverbs 3:7,Proverbs 3:8. To honour God with our estates, Proverbs 3:9. The advantage in so doing, Proverbs 3:10. To patience under God’s chastisements, Proverbs 3:11. A reason for it, Proverbs 3:12. The happiness of him that findeth wisdom, Proverbs 3:13. Wisdom set out, with the benefits that attend her, Proverbs... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 3:1

My law; my doctrine or counsel; or the law of God, which might be called his law, as the gospel is called Paul’s gospel, 2 Thessalonians 2:8, because delivered by him. Keep my commandments, by diligent meditation and hearty affection. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 3:2

God will add these blessings which he hath promised to the obedient, Deuteronomy 8:18; Deuteronomy 30:20; 1 Timothy 4:8. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 3:3

Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: either, 1. God’s mercy and truth. So it is a promise, God’s mercy and truth shall not forsake thee. Or rather, 2. That mercy and truth which is man’s duty. So it is a precept; which seems most probable, both from the form of the Hebrew phrase, and from the following words of this verse, which are plainly preceptive, and from the promise annexed to the performance of this precept in the next verse. Mercy and truth are frequently joined together, as they are... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 3:4

Find favour, i.e. obtain acceptance, or be gracious and amiable to them. Good understanding; whereby to know thy duty, and to discern between good and evil. The serious practice of religion is an excellent mean to get a solid understanding of it; as, on the contrary, a vicious life doth exceedingly debase and darken the mind, and keep men from the knowledge of truth, which not only Scripture, but even heathen philosophers, have oft observed. Others render it, good success; which seems not to... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 3:5

Trust in the Lord; wholly and securely rely upon God’s promises and providence for help and relief in all thine affairs and dangers. Lean not unto thine own understanding; think not to accomplish thy designs by the strength of thine own wit without God’s blessing. Under this one kind of carnal confidence, which is most frequent and most plausible, he understands and forbids all other confidences in bodily strength, wealth, friends, &c. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 3:6

Ways; designs and undertakings for the things of this life or of the next. Acknowledge him, Heb. know him, to wit, practically; or, own him; his wisdom, in following his counsels; his power and goodness, in expecting success from him; his sovereignty, in managing all thy affairs so as to please and glorify him. Direct thy paths; assist and bless all thine endeavours, and keep thee from the paths of sin and destruction. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 3:7

Be not wise in thine own eyes; be not puffed up with vain conceit of thine own wisdom, as if that were sufficient for the conduct of all thine affairs without direction or assistance from God, or without the advice of others. Fear the Lord: this he adds, because the reverence and dread of the Divine Majesty will make a man, when he compareth himself with God, little and vile in his own eyes. Reverence God’s wisdom, and thou wilt despise thine own. read more

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 3:33-35

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 3:1-35

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 3

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 3:1

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 3:2

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 3:3

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 3:4

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 3:5

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 3:6

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 3:7

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