Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Proverbs 1:21
21. The publicity further indicated by terms designating places of most common resort. read more
Proverbs 1:17-21 Niv
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Proverbs 1:1-18
I. COLLECTION 1: DISCOURSES ON WISDOM CHS. 1-9The Book of Proverbs is a collection of at least seven separate groups of proverbs. There are two groups that Solomon spoke and or wrote (possibly chs. 1-9 and definitely Proverbs 10:1 to Proverbs 22:16). read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Proverbs 1:8-19
1. Warning against consorting with sinners 1:8-19In this pericope, the wise way (following the moral law in general, Proverbs 1:8-9) does not have the personal appeal, or the excitement and hope of power, that the second way does (Proverbs 1:10-19). Its only reward is goodness, as opposed to acceptance by one’s peers."The Bible is the basic textbook in the home. It was once the basic textbook in the educational system, but even if that were still true, the Bible in the school can’t replace the... read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Proverbs 1:8-36
B. Instruction for Young People 1:8-8:36The two ways (paths, worldviews) introduced in Proverbs 1:7 stretch out before the reader (cf. Matthew 7:13-14). In this section Solomon spoke to his son, guiding him into God’s way. "My son" was and is a customary way of addressing a disciple."It derives from the idea that parents are primarily responsible for moral instruction (Proverbs 4:3-4; Deuteronomy 6:7)." [Note: Ross, p. 907.] The frequent recurrence of the phrase "my son" in this part of... read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Proverbs 1:20-33
2. Wisdom’s appeal 1:20-33This is one of several passages in Proverbs where the writer personified wisdom. Her call comes to people in the market, in the hustle and bustle of life, not in the seclusion of the home or sanctuary (cf. Proverbs 1:8). [Note: See Phyllis Trible, "Wisdom Builds a Poem: The Architecture of Proverbs 1:20-33," Journal of Biblical Literature 94 (1975):509-18.] "To whom does Wisdom speak? To three classes of sinners: the simple ones, the scorners (scoffers, mockers, NIV),... read more
John Dummelow
John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 1:1-33
The chapter falls into three principal divisions.1-6. Title and Introduction explaining the object of the whole book, which is to instruct the inexperienced and add to the educated man’s knowledge. It is assumed that good conduct is an art which can be taught. But the learner must be in sympathy with the subject; a right judgment concerning moral truth is attainable only by those who hunger and thirst after righteousness. The method of instruction is by proverbs, figures, parables and vivid... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Proverbs 1:17
(17) Surely in vain . . .—The second reason: their folly in so doing, for God will bring punishment upon them; in the “same net which they hid privily will their foot be taken “(Psalms 9:15). Even birds are wiser than they. It is useless to spread a net in the sight of any bird. read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Proverbs 1:18
(18) And they lay wait.—Yet they cannot see that in truth they are laying wait, not for the innocent, but for themselves, as God will deliver him, and bring the mischief they designed for him upon their own head. read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Proverbs 1:19
(19) So are the ways . . .—The conclusion of the discourse. The same phrase occurs in Job 8:13.Which taketh away . . .—That is, covetousness takes away the life of him who has this vice in his heart, who is, according to the Hebrew idiom, the “owner” of it. (Comp. similar expressions in Proverbs 22:24; Proverbs 23:2, where an “angry” man and a man “given to appetite” are literally an owner of anger and appetite.) read more
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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Proverbs 1:20
20-33. Some interpreters regard this address as the language of the Son of God under the name of Wisdom (compare Luke 11:49). Others think that wisdom, as the divine attribute specially employed in acts of counsel and admonition, is here personified, and represents God. In either case the address is a most solemn and divine admonition, whose matter and spirit are eminently evangelical and impressive (see on Proverbs 8:1). Wisdom—literally, "Wisdoms," the plural used either because of the... read more