Bible Commentary

When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. 27. desolation ] So R.V. marg. Comp. Zep 1:15, where both in A.V. and R.V. this and a cognate Heb. word are rendered “wasteness and desolation.” The parallel, however, is better preserved if, with R.V. … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Proverbs 1:27”

I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; 26. at ] Rather, in, i.e. in the time of. Comp. on this verse Psa 2:4; Psa 37:13; Psa 59:8. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges Compare the marginal reference. The scorn and derision with which men look on … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Proverbs 1:26”

But ye have set at naught all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: Set at nought, or despised, or made void; resisted its power and authority. My counsel: either, 1. My design of doing sinners good, which you have made of none effect to yourselves. Or, 2. My commands and counsels, which suits … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Proverbs 1:25”

Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; 24. The abruptness of the transition from gracious invitation to awful threatening has led to the suggestion that a pause is to be introduced between the two divisions ( Pro 1:20-33) of this appeal of Wisdom. But, as … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Proverbs 1:24”

Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. 23. We have here the germ both of later prophecies (Isa 44:3; Joe 2:28 [Heb 3:1 ]), and of their fulfilment in Christ (Joh 7:37-39; Act 2:33; Joh 7:17). Fuente: The Cambridge Bible … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Proverbs 1:23”

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? 22. simple ] unwary, see Pro 1:4 above, note. love simplicity ] when you stand in need of that subtilty, which wisdom offers you ( Pro 1:4). When war is at the gates, you are … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Proverbs 1:22”

She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, [saying], 21. in the chief place of concourse ] Lit. at the head of the noisy places ( turbarum, Vulg.). The expression head of the streets occurs Isa 51:20; Lam 2:19. Comp. at every … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Proverbs 1:21”

Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: Second Address. Warning against Neglecting the Appeal of Wisdom. Chap. 1. Pro 1:20-33 20. crieth ] Rather, crieth aloud, R.V. without ] Rather, in the street, R.V. The expression is sometimes used adverbially, without or abroad; but the parallelism here, in the broad places, points … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Proverbs 1:20”

So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; [which] taketh away the life of the owners thereof. 19. which taketh away ] Rather, It (greed of gain) taketh away the life of them that have it. It is the destruction of those who are possessed by it. The same Heb. phrase, … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Proverbs 1:19”

And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives. Verse 18. They lay wait for their own blood] I believe it is the innocent who are spoken of here, for whose blood and lives these lay wait and lurk privily; certainly not their own, by any mode of construction. … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Proverbs 1:18”