Proverbs 1:7-10, Proverbs 1:20-23, Proverbs 1:33 NIV

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Proverbs 1:1-33

Proverbs 1:1 . Proverbs, apothegms, parables, sentences, similitudes. The proverbs of a nation are the compressions of wisdom into short maxims, which like the coins of a country worn bare by use, pass from hand to hand, without scruple or fear. The Hebrew word משׁלים mishelim, from משׁל mashal, to rule or govern, signifies a collection of wise sayings for the government of life and conduct. Proverbs 1:2 . To know wisdom. This little volume comes cheap to us, but it cost the king of... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 1:1-7

Proverbs 1:1-7The proverbs of Solomon. The Book of Proverbs1. The book does not consist of proverbs entirely. Much of it is the language of pious exhortation and spiritual precept.2. The book contains many worldly precepts. Some have a selfish, secular sound. But--(1) It is well to inquire whether the supposed purely prudential maxim is really so entirely a citizen of this world as it seems to be.(2) It is well to remember that many even of our Saviour’s discourses might seem open to the charge... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 1:7

Proverbs 1:7The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. The first rudiments of knowledgeThe fear of the Lord is an abiding and reverent sense of the presence of God and of accountableness to Him: For this to exist God must be that real, personal Being which we have every reason to believe God has revealed Himself to be: such in character, as to love, holiness, and justice, as He has declared Himself in His Word. Why is this fear the beginning of knowledge?1. Because knowledge being the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 1:8

Proverbs 1:8Hear the instruction of thy father.The familyThe first and great commandment is the fear of God, and the second, which is next to it and like to it, is obedience to parents. Wherever the root is planted this is the first fruit which it bears. God honours His own ordinance, the family. He gives parents rank next after Himself. Filial love stands near, and leans on godliness. God is the author of the family constitution. Its laws are the marriage of one man with one woman, the support... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 1:9

Proverbs 1:9For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head.Filial love an ornament of beautyIt seems an instinct of humanity to put ornaments upon the person. It does not rank high among the exercises of the human faculties, yet it is quite above the reach of all inferior creatures. Ornaments on the fallen, like many other innocent things, become the occasions of sin, but they are not in their own nature evil. To deck with external beauty that which is morally corrupt within is a cheat... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 1:10-19

Proverbs 1:10-19My son, if sinners entice thee. Reasons for resisting the enticements of sinnersBy sinners is meant all persons who are not true Christians. Three reasons why we should not consent when sinners entice us:1. Because when we begin to sin it is hard to stop.2. Because it is dangerous.3. Because it is disgraceful.(1) It is so in the looks it gives us.(2) It is so in the company into which it brings us.Two things we ought to do:1. Get rid of the sins we have committed.2. Try to keep... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 1:7

Pro 1:7 The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge: [but] fools despise wisdom and instruction. Ver. 7. The fear of the Lord is the beginning. ] Or, The chief and principal point a of wisdom, as the word here signified; yea, wisdom itself. Job 28:28 This Solomon had learned by the instruction of his father, as it is in the next verse, who had taught it him of a child, Pro 4:4 Psa 111:10 and therefore sets it here in the beginning of his works as the beginning of all. As in the... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 1:8

Pro 1:8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: Ver. 8. Hear the instruction of thy father, &c. ] It is not fit to disobey God, thy father, nor thy teacher, saith Aristotle a Our parents, said Hierocles, are Yεοι εφεστιοι , our household gods: and their words should be received as oracles. This is a principal fruit of the fear of God, which it here fitly followeth: like as in the decalogue, the commandment for honouring of parents is set next of... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 1:9

Pro 1:9 For they [shall be] an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck. Ver. 9. For they shall be an ornament. ] "A man’s wisdom maketh his face to shine." Ecc 8:1 Tum pietate gravem, &c. a Oυ το χρυσος ουτε αδαμας ουτως αστραπτει . b Neither gold nor precious stone so glittereth, saith Plato, as the prudent mind of a pious person. Nothing so beautifies as grace doth. Moses and Joseph were "fair to God," Act 7:20 and favoured of all men. A crown of gold, a chain of... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 1:10

Pro 1:10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. Ver. 10. If sinners entice thee. ] To an ill bargain; to a match of mischief, as Ahab did Jehoshaphat, as Potiphar’s wife would have done Joseph; and truly, that he yielded not, was no less a wonder, than that those three worthies burnt not in the midst of the fiery furnace. But as the sunshine puts out fire, so did the fear of God the fire of lust. Consent thou not. ] But carry a severe rebuke in thy counteuance, as God doth. Psa... read more

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Proverbs 1:1-33

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 1:1-7

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 1:7

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 1:8

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 1:9

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 1:10-19

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 1:7

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 1:8

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 1:9

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 1:10

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