箴言 2:11-16 CUNPTS

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 2:10-22

The scope of these verses is to show, 1. What great advantage true wisdom will be of to us; it will keep us from the paths of sin, which lead to ruin, and will therein do us a greater kindness than if it enriched us with all the wealth of the world. 2. What good use we should make of the wisdom God gives us; we must use it for our own guidance in the paths of virtue, and for the arming of us against temptations of every kind. 3. By what rules we may try ourselves whether we have this wisdom or... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 2:11

Discretion shall preserve thee ,.... Which wisdom or the Gospel gives, or the Lord by the means of it; for the Gospel makes a man wise and discreet in the business of salvation, and in his conduct and deportment; and the discretion it gives him will put him upon his guard, and direct him to watch against every error, and every false way. And so the words may be rendered, "discretion will watch over thee"; to keep thee from everything pernicious in doctrine and practice. The Septuagint... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 2:12

To deliver thee from the way of the evil man ,.... Who is so by nature and practice, who is hardened in sin and abandoned to it, whose course of life is evil, and who endeavours to draw others into the same evil practices; now the Gospel, and a spiritual knowledge of it, are a means of preserving men from following the examples of such persons, and from walking with them in the ways of sin: or from "the evil way" F20 מדרך רע "a via mala", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Mercerus,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 2:13

Who leave the paths of uprightness ,.... Or "righteousness", or the "right and plain ways" F21 ארחות ישר "semitas rectas", Mercerus; "itinera recta", Piscator; "itinera planissima", Schultens. ; which the light of nature and the law of God, and especially the Gospel of Christ, direct to; and in which they have been trained up, having had a religious education; for it supposes them to have been externally in these ways, since they are said to leave them; for though persons do not... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 2:14

Who rejoice to do evil ,.... At the doing of it, or when they have done it; they are glad of an opportunity of doing mischief, and glory when they have done it; it is a sport and pastime to them, Proverbs 10:2 ; they take pleasure in the act of sin, and have no remorse of conscience afterwards; they speak of it in an exulting manner, and boast of it, and glory in their shame; and delight in the frowardness of the wicked : of the wicked man, as Aben Ezra and Gersom supply it; in the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 2:15

Whose ways are crooked ,.... Which swerve from and are not agreeably to the rule of the divine word, either the law of God or the Gospel of Christ; sin is an aberration, a straying from the rule of God's word, a transgression of his law; and a walk in it is unbecoming the Gospel of Christ; it has many serpentine windings and turnings in it; full of distortions and excursions, and many retrograde actions; see Psalm 125:5 ; and they froward in their paths ; declining here and there,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 2:16

To deliver thee from the strange woman ,.... As the Gospel of Christ and its doctrines, or the instructions of wisdom, are a means of delivering persons from the evil man, his company, ways, and works; so from a naughty woman, an adulteress, called a "strange" woman; not because of another nation, or unknown, but because she belongs to another person, and not to him whom she entices into her embraces. Gersom interprets this of the sensitive appetite, and Jarchi of idolatry; as others do also... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 2:11

Discretion shall preserve thee - מזמה mezimmah . See on Proverbs 1:4 ; (note). Here the word is taken in a good sense, a good device. The man invents purposes of good; and all his schemes, plans, and devices, have for their object God's glory and the good of man: he deviseth liberal things, and by liberal things he shall stand. Coverdale translates, "Then shall Counsel preserve thee." A very good translation, much better than the present. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 2:12

The man that speaketh froward things - תהפכות tahpuchoth , things of subverston; from תפך taphach , to turn or change the course of a thing. Men who wish to subvert the state of things, whether civil or religious; who are seditious themselves, and wish to make others so. These speak much of liberty and oppression, deal greatly in broad assertions, and endeavor especially to corrupt the minds of youth. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 2:16

The stranger which flattereth with her words - החליקה hechelikah , she that smooths with her words. The original intimates the glib, oily speeches of a prostitute. The English lick is supposed to be derived from the original word. read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 2:10-22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 2:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 2:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 2:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 2:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 2:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 2:16

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 2:11

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 2:12

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 2:16

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