Proverbs 3:35 - Exposition

The wise shall inherit glory. Proverbs 11:2 indicates that "the wise" here are to be identified with "the lowly" of the preceding verse. Inherit ; succeed to it as a matter of course by hereditary right as sons. Heirship implies sonship. Glory ( kavod ); or, honour ; not merely earthly distinction and splendour, the glory of man, but the "glory of God." But shame shall be the promotion of fools; or, as margin, shame exalteth the fools. The rendering of the original, vuk ' silim merim kalon, depends upon the meaning to be given to merim, the hiph. participle of rum, hiph. "to lift up, exalt;" and whether the plural, k'silim, in a distributive sense, as in Proverbs 11:18 , or kalon , is the subject. Various interpretations have been given of the passage.