Proverbs 1:1-33

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 1:31

Therefore they shall eat, etc. A further enlargement of the declaration of Wisdom, showing that their calamity is the result of their own ways. The futures are resumed in the original from Proverbs 1:28 . The word "therefore" does not occur, but it is met with in the LXX ; τοιγαροῦν ; in the Vulgate, igitur ; and in the Syriac, ideo. The truth here expressed is accordant with the tenor of the teaching of the Scripture (comp. Proverbs 14:14 ; Proverbs 22:8 ; Job 4:8 ; ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 1:31

Punishment the natural fruit of sin The punishment of sin is not an arbitrary penalty, but a natural consequence. It follows by laws of nature. It needs no executioner. The sin works out its own doom. This thought may be regarded from two points of view. From the standpoint of nature it is a proof that Divine justice does not abrogate, but works through natural laws. From the spiritual side it is an evidence that God has planted his moral laws in the very constitution of the world. I. ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 1:32

Wisdom now brings her address to a close by contrasting the destruction and ruin of the foolish, and the security of those who listen to her voice. The turning away; מְשׁוּבָה ( m'shuvah ) , from שׁוּב ( shuv ) , "to turn about, or to return" (which is used metaphorically of conversion), here means defection, turning away; and hence apostasy ( aversio Vulgate, Chaldee Paraphrase, Syriac; perversitio, Cast. Version); the "backsliding" of Jeremiah 8:5 ; Hosea 11:7 .... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 1:32

Fatal prosperity It is certainly not incumbent on the Christian preacher to maintain that prosperity is in itself an evil. This would involve a strange paradox, since it must be confessed that we all desire prosperity by natural instinct, and seek it in some form, and when we have met with it are exhorted to be thankful for it; all of which things would need to be deprecated if prosperity were essentially evil. So far is it from being thus represented in the Bible, that the Old Testament... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 1:32

The prosperity of fools. "The prosperity of fools shall destroy them." Few men fear prosperity; but if they had enough wisdom to know their own weakness, they would see that there was nothing which they had so much reason to dread. We approach the truth of the text by seeing— I. THAT IT IS IN OUR HUMAN NATURE TO ASPIRE TO PROSPERITY AND TO STRIVE AFTER IT . The Author of our nature has made us hunger fur success as the food of the soul. II. THAT ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 1:33

Hearkeneth unto me. Wisdom, in closing her address, draws a beautiful picture of the real security and peace of the righteous, as contrasted with the false security of the wicked. As on the one side rejection of her counsels, her warnings, and invitations, carries with it punishment and irretrievable ruin; so, on the other, the hearkening to her words, and loving obedience, are rewarded by her with the choicest blessings. Shall dwell safely ; that is, with confidence, without danger ( ... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Proverbs 1:1

The long exhortation Proverbs 1–9, characterized by the frequent recurrence of the words “my son,” is of the nature of a preface to the collection of the “Proverbs of Solomon” Proverbs 10:1. On Proverbs 1:1-7, see the introduction to Proverbs. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Proverbs 1:2

The writer’s purpose is to educate. He is writing what might be called an ethical handbook for the young, though not for the young only. Of all books in the Old Testament, this is the one which we may think of as most distinctively educational. A comparison of it with a similar manual, the “sayings of the fathers,” in the Mishna, would help the student to measure the difference between Scriptural and rabbinical teaching.Wisdom - The power by which human personality reaches its highest spiritual... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Proverbs 1:3

Wisdom - Not the same word as in Proverbs 1:2; better, perhaps, thoughtfulness.Justice - Rather, righteousness. The word in the Hebrew includes the ideas of truth and beneficence as well as “justice.”Judgment - The teaching of the Proverbs is to lead us to pass a right sentence upon human actions, whether our own or another’s.Equity - In the Hebrew (see the margin) the plural is used, and expresses the many varying forms and phases of the one pervading principle. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Proverbs 1:4

This verse points out the two classes for which the book will be useful:(1) the “simple,” literally the “open,” the open-hearted, the minds ready to receive impressions for good or evil Proverbs 1:22; and(2) the “young,” who need both knowledge and discipline.To these the teacher offers the “subtilty,” which may turn to evil Exodus 21:14 and become as the wisdom of the serpent Genesis 3:1, but which also takes its place, as that wisdom does, among the highest moral gifts Matthew 10:16; the... read more

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