34. My gates Wisdom is now represented as in her temple, while her votaries, on whom she pronounces blessings, wait and watch for the opening of her gates, that they may meet her and secure her instructions. read more
35, 36. That sinneth against me חשׂאי , misses me, taking the word in its primitive sense, which best suits the context, as it stands opposed to those finding or meeting her in the preceding verse. Wrongeth his own soul חמס נפשׁו , does violence to his own life, commits suicide. All they that hate me love death That is, their conduct will be their destruction. They love their own evil way which leads to death, and hence, by a bold metaphor, they are represented as loving death... read more
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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 8:32-33
BLESSEDNESS RESULTING FROM ATTENDING TO THE INSTRUCTIONS OF WISDOM, Proverbs 8:32-36. 32, 33. Now therefore Considering all these preceding things. Ye children Compare Proverbs 4:1; Proverbs 5:7; Proverbs 7:24; Proverbs 8:32. The old exhortation returns now with a new force. The counsels are no longer those of prudence, calculation, human experience; but that of a wisdom wide as the universe, eternal as Jehovah, ordering all things. Refuse it not Do not let it go. read more