Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Proverbs 3:31-35
CRITICAL NOTES.—Proverbs 3:31. Envy thou not, &c., or “emulate not” (Vulg.) “Do not anxiously covet” (Stuart). Proverbs 3:32. Secret. His “secret compact,” “familiar intimacy.” Proverbs 3:34. “If,” or “Seeing that He scorneth the scorners,” &c. Proverbs 3:35. The promotion, &c., literally “shame lifts up,” i.e., in order to sweep away and destroy them; so Lange translates. Miller reads, “fools are each piling shame.” Stuart says on this verse, “Glory means here honour or an exalted... read more
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 3:32
The froward; or, perverse, who walketh in crooked or sinful paths, as the oppressor last mentioned; opposed to the upright man, who is called right or straight, as Deuteronomy 32:4; Proverbs 29:27. Is abomination to the Lord; God hates him, and therefore sooner or later he must needs be extremely and eternally miserable. His secret is with the righteous; they are God’s friends and favourites, to whom he familiarly imparts, as men use to do to their friends, his mind and counsels, or his secret... read more