Proverbs 9:7

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Proverbs 9:1-18

The last address is a contrast between wisdom and folly. Each is personified as a woman calling to youth. Wisdom has builded her house, and spread her feast in the high places of the city. She calls to a feast of life. Folly in the garb of the evil woman sits at the door of her house, also in the high places of the city. She also calls to a feast, but it is the feast of death. Between the two descriptions there is a passage revealing the fact that the effect produced will depend on the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 9:1-18

Prologue To The Book (Proverbs 1:8 to Proverbs 9:18 ). It was common throughout the 3rd to the 1st millenniums BC for collections of wisdom saying to have a prologue preparing for the ‘sayings’ that would follow. Those sayings would then be introduced by a subheading. Proverbs thus follows the usual precedent in having such a prologue in Proverbs 1:8 to Proverbs 9:18, followed by general sayings in Proverbs 10:1 ff headed by a subheading (Proverbs 10:1). It was also common for such a... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 9:7-12

The Contrast Between The Scorner, Who Does Not Like Reproof, And The Wise Man Who Heeds It, (a warning to the naive), Centred Round The Fear Of YHWH (Proverbs 9:7-12 ). The prologue initially began with a warning concerning ‘the naive, -- scorners -- and the foolish’ (Proverbs 1:22). Here in this final chapter wisdom addresses the naive, for whom there is still hope (Proverbs 9:4-6), reveals the truth about scorners, for whom there is little hope (Proverbs 9:7-8), and epitomises the foolish... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 9:1-18

Proverbs 9. The Invitations of Wisdom and Folly Contrasted.— This section closes with a couple of graphic pictures of Wisdom and Folly personified, each bidding for the attention of the passers-by with offers of hospitality. The two pictures, each consisting of six stanzas, are now separated by six stanzas of unconnected proverbs ( Proverbs 9:7-2 Kings :). Proverbs 9:1-Joshua : . Wisdom’ s Invitation.— The parable of the Great Supper in Matthew 22 and Luke 14 may perhaps be modelled on this... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 9:7

He that reproveth a scorner: the connexion may be conceived thus, Having invited the simple, he forbids the invitation of scorners; or thus, He showeth who he meant by the foolish, Proverbs 9:6, even scorners and wicked men, as they are here called; and he presseth his last advice of forsaking them, because there was no good, but hurt, to be got by conversation with them. Getteth to himself shame; partly from the scorner, who will revile and deride him; and partly from others, because he is... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Proverbs 9:1-12

CRITICAL NOTES.—Proverbs 9:1. Wisdom, in the plural, as in chap. Proverbs 1:20, to express excellence and dignity. Proverbs 9:2. She hath mingled her wine. Some commentators understand the mingling to be with water, others with spices; both were customary among ancient orientals. Proverbs 9:7. Latter clause. Most commentators translate, “he that rebuketh the wicked, it is his dishonour,” or, “it is a dishonour to him,” i.e., to the wicked man. Proverbs 9:10. The Holy, generally understood to... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Proverbs 9:1-18

Chapter 9 continues in its praise of wisdom.Wisdom hath built her house, she has hewn out the seven pillars: She has killed her beasts; she has mingled her wine; and she has furnished her table. And she has sent forth her maidens: and she cries upon the highest places of the city, Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she says to him, Come, and eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled. Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Proverbs 9:1-18

Proverbs 9:1 . Wisdom hath builded her house. This chapter opens with a sublime allegory. We see the princess, the mother of angels and men, enthroned in her temple, “the church which is the pillar and ground of truth.” 1 Timothy 3:15. It presents a front of seven pillars, a favourite and mystical number in the Hebrew sanctuary. She prepares a royal festival, and invites a world to be her guests. She stands in every form of grace; she spreads her hands and cries in all high places, inviting... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 9:7-9

Proverbs 9:7-9Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee. ReproofHow to give it, and how to take it. Reproofs are like sharp knives, very needful and very useful; but they should not be in the hands of children. Those who handle them rashly will wound themselves and their neighbours. Sometimes reproofs are unskilfully administered, and sometimes unfaithfully withheld. The scorner is the principal figure in the scene of the text. He is in a state of nature. He has no spiritual life or light. He is... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 9:7

Pro 9:7 He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked [man getteth] himself a blot. Ver. 7. He that reproveth a scorner. ] This, with the three next verses, may seem to come in by way of parenthesis; and they do not obscurely intimate what manner of hearers ministers mostly meet with - viz., such as our Saviour did, - "But the Pharisees that were covetous, derided," Luk 16:14 or blew their noses at him, εξεμυκτηριζον , as one renders it, - and such as long... read more