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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 1:20-23

Wisdom Is Depicted As Crying Out In Longing That People Will Respond To Her Words And Gain From What She Offers (Proverbs 1:20-23 ). Wisdom is now personified as a woman crying out to people to respond to her words. She is in direct contrast to the woman who cries out to young men seeking to lead them astray (Proverbs 2:1-19; Proverbs 7:8-27) whose name is Folly (Proverbs 9:13-18). See also Proverbs 5:3-11; Proverbs 6:24-35. Thus God’s Wisdom is to be the palliative to immoral yearnings. The... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 1:20-33

Wisdom Is Depicted As Crying Out To Be Heard, Longing For Response, Promising Inculcation Of Her Own Spirit, And Warning Of The Consequences Of Refusal (Proverbs 1:20-33 ). We have here the first of the wisdom passages, where Wisdom herself speaks, crying out to be heard and warning of the consequences of refusal. But Wisdom is essentially God’s Wisdom. Consider especially Proverbs 3:19-20; Proverbs 8:22-31. Thus when Wisdom speaks, God speaks. The passage conveys its ideals chiastically: A ... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 1:1-33

Proverbs 1-9. First Section. The Praise of Wisdom. Proverbs 1:1 . Title, either of the whole book, or of this particular collection.The word for proverb, mâ shâ l, has a wide significance in Heb. ( see BDB) . Probably it originally expressed a comparison or allusion, drawn from history or nature, and employed to convey a taunt or satire, hence the rendering “ taunt-song.” For different meanings cf. Numbers 21:27, Deuteronomy 28:37, Job 13:12, Isaiah 14:4, Ezekiel 12:23. Ezekiel’ s use... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 1:17

The design of these words is to set forth the folly of these men by the similitude of a bird, which yet is very variously applied and understood by divers interpreters. But I shall not confound the reader with the rehearsal of them. This clause, in vain, upon the understanding whereof the whole depends, may be understood, either, 1. In respect of the fowler. So the sense is, The fowler who spreads his net in the sight of the bird loseth his labour, because the bird, perceiving the danger, will... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 1:18

And, or but, or yet, or so; for all these ways this particle is used; which is more fully expressed in the next verse. They lay wait for their own blood; the destruction which they design to others falls upon themselves. Their blood answers to their feet, Proverbs 1:16, and belongs to the same persons. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 1:19

So, as is expressed both in the foregoing and following words, are the ways; the actions and courses, which are so in the tendency and event of them. That is greedy of pain; that seeks gain by unrighteous and wicked practices. Which; either which greediness; or rather, which gain, by comparing the last words. Taketh away the lives of the owners thereof; brings sudden and violent death upon those who had made themselves masters and possessors of such gain. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 1:20

Having expressed the counsels and invitations of folly and of wicked men, he now declareth the voice of wisdom. By the name of wisdom or wisdoms he seems to understand the wisdom or counsel of God revealed to the sons of men by his word. Which he calls wisdoms here, as also Proverbs 9:1, either to note the excellency of this wisdom beyond all other, as the greatest and chief of beasts is called behemoth or beasts, Job 40:15; or because it consisteth of a multitude of wise precepts; or because... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 1:21

The chief place of concourse; where there is probability of most success. The opening of the gates; where magistrates sit in judgment, and people are assembled. So it crieth both to the wise and to the unwise, as Paul preached, Romans 1:14. In the city; not only in the gate, but in every part of the city. Or, in the cities, the singular number being put for the plural. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Proverbs 1:10-19

CRITICAL NOTES.—Proverbs 1:10. Entice thee, “lay thee open.” Miller here reads “if sinners would make a door of thy simplicity, afford thou no entrance.” Proverbs 1:17. Some interpret this verse as referring to the godly who escape the snares laid for them, others to the wicked, who, not so wise as the bird, plunge themselves into ruin by plotting against the good. Then the blood and lives of Proverbs 1:18 refer to the blood and life of the sinner. MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Proverbs... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Proverbs 1:20-32

CRITICAL NOTES.—Proverbs 1:20. The word wisdom is in the plural form in the Hebrew. Proverbs 1:27. Desolation, or “tempest.” Proverbs 1:28. To seek early denotes “earnestly.” See ch. Proverbs 8:17, Hosea 5:15. The person now changes from the second to the third, “as though wisdom were increasing alienated” (Miller). Proverbs 1:32. The turning away of the simple, i.e., their rejection of wisdom. Prosperity, “Security,” “idle, easy rest.”MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH—Proverbs 1:20-23THE CRY OF... read more

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 1:20-23

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 1:20-33

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 1:1-33

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 1:17

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 1:18

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 1:19

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 1:20

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 1:21

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Proverbs 1:10-19

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Proverbs 1:20-32

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