Proverbs 2:10-13

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 2:10

When wisdom entereth into thine heart ,.... Either Christ, the Wisdom of God; who enters there at conversion, and sets up a throne in the heart, and dwells there by faith: or else the Gospel, the wisdom of God in a mystery; which enters not into the head only, as in hypocrites and formal professors; nor into the natural affections, as in the stony ground hearers; but into the heart, opened by the Spirit of God to receive it, so as to have a spiritual understanding of it; which is done when... 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

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 2:1-22

3. Third admonitory discourse, pointing out the benefits which arise from a sincere, earnest, and persevering search after Wisdom. This discourse divides itself into three parts. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 2:10

When wisdom entereth into thine heart. There is practically little difference as to the sense, whether we render the Hebrew כִּי by the conditional "if" or by the temporal "when" as in the Authorized Version. The conditional force is adopted by the LXX . ἐάν and the Vulgate si. In the previous section of this address, the teacher has shown that the search after Wisdom will result in possession.; now he points out, when Wisdom is secured, certain advantageous consequences follow.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 2:10-11

The antidote to temptation I. WE NEED AN ANTIDOTE TO TEMPTATION . It is not enough to trust to our own spiritual health to throw off the poison. We are already diseased with sin, and have a predisposition to yield to temptation in the corruption of our own hearts. But if we were immaculate, we should still be liable to fall; the power of temptation is so fearful that the purest, strongest soul would be in danger of succumbing. The tempter can choose the moment of his attack.... read more

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