Proverbs 9:16-18

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Proverbs 9:1-18

CHAPTER 9 1. The invitation of Wisdom (Proverbs 9:1-12 ) 2. The contrast with Folly. (Proverbs 9:13-18 ) Proverbs 9:1-12 . The first section of Proverbs closeth with a contrast of Wisdom and Folly, both personified. The one, our Lord, the other under the symbol of a foolish woman. Wisdom sends forth her invitation after her house is built and the feast is spread. It reminds us of the parable of the great supper (Luke 14:1-35 ). Here too is the gracious invitation, “Come, eat of my bread... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Proverbs 9:1-18

In these chapters we have a public discourse of Wisdom (personified) (chap. 8), and what Lange describes as an allegorical exhibition of the call of men to a choice of wisdom of folly (chap. 9). It is really our Lord Jesus Christ putting forth this voice (Proverbs 8:1 ), and crying unto men at the gates of the city (Proverbs 8:4-5 ). It is He who speaks the excellent things (Proverbs 8:6 ), and on whose lips wickedness is an abomination (Proverbs 8:7 ). Of Him alone can it be predicted that... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Proverbs 9:1-18

Wisdom and Folly Proverbs 9:0 Two women make their appeal in this chapter. One is Wisdom, the other is the foolish woman. So the broad distinction between wisdom and folly is consistently sustained. There are no half-wise people, no half-foolish people; the virgins are wise or foolish, bad or good, angels from heaven or spectres from hell. Wisdom has a festival prepared. We have seen in Exodus 24:0 that when the elders of Israel were favoured with the vision of the Almighty "they did eat and... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Proverbs 9:13-18

A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing. For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city, To call passengers who go right on their ways: Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell. We have in these verses the contrast to what... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Proverbs 9:18

REFLECTIONS. READER! do not too hastily dismiss this chapter. Can anything be more happily chosen to represent the path of grace, and the broad road of destruction, than the very different representations here made. Pause, and contemplate the vast distinction between them. Behold the house, the feast, the fatness, fulness, and eternal duration of those provisions which Jesus hath made for them that love him. Behold the wretched, empty, unsatisfying, deceitful, and stolen pleasures which sin... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Proverbs 9:17

Pleasant. Impure pleasures are more delightful (Calmet) to sensual men. (Haydock) --- The prohibition increases appetite. (Menochius) read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Proverbs 9:18

Giants. Who lived when all flesh had corrupted its ways, (Genesis vi. 12.) and were sentenced to hell, Job xxvi. 5., and Isaias xiv. 9. (Calmet) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 9:13-18

13-18 How diligent the tempter is, to seduce unwary souls into sin! Carnal, sensual pleasure, stupifies conscience, and puts out the sparks of conviction. This tempter has no solid reason to offer; and where she gets dominion in a soul, all knowledge of holy things is lost and forgotten. She is very violent and pressing. We need to seek and pray for true wisdom, for Satan has many ways to withdraw our souls from Christ. Not only worldly lusts and abandoned seducers prove fatal to the souls of... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Proverbs 9:13-18

The Banquet of Folly v. 13. A foolish woman is clamorous, literally, "A simple, noisy woman is folly," devoid of sense, but raising all the more clamor, boisterous, excited, and wanton; she is simple and knoweth nothing, utter ignorance being characteristic of folly. v. 14. For she sitteth at the door of her house, like a harlot watching for passers-by, Genesis 38:14, on a seat In the high places of the city, the lofty throne of the city being named in irony to show what measures are... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Proverbs 9:1-18

15. Allegorical exhibition of the call of men to the possession and enjoyment of true wisdom, under the figure of an invitation to two banquetsProverbs 9:1-18a) The banquet of wisdom: Proverbs 9:1-121 Wisdom hath builded her house,she hath hewn out her seven pillars.2 hath slaughtered her beasts, spiced her wine,hath also spread her table;3 hath sent out her maidens; she invitethon the highest points (summits of the high places) of the city:4 “Whosoever is simple, let him... read more

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