Proverbs 3:11,Proverbs 3:12

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Proverbs 3:1-12

Lest We Forget Proverbs 3:1-12 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Book of Proverbs speaks several times of the danger of forgetting God and His Commandments. We are firmly convinced that herein is a danger that we all need to consider with care. We will consider several warnings about forgetting, that are to be found in Deuteronomy and in the Psalms. 1. Forget not His Covenant (Deuteronomy 4:23-31 ). God never forgets His pledges to His people. It is interesting to study His Covenant to Abraham... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 3:1-35

Prologue To The Book (Proverbs 1:8 to Proverbs 9:18 ). It was common throughout the 3rd to the 1st millenniums BC for collections of wisdom saying to have a prologue preparing for the ‘sayings’ that would follow. Those sayings would then be introduced by a subheading. Proverbs thus follows the usual precedent in having such a prologue in Proverbs 1:8 to Proverbs 9:18, followed by general sayings in Proverbs 10:1 ff headed by a subheading (Proverbs 10:1). It was also common for such a... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 3:11-20

YHWH As Chastening Father And Wise Creator Inculcates Wisdom And Understanding As A Tree Of Life To Those Whom He Loves (Proverbs 3:11-20 ). The reference to ‘my son’ in Proverbs 3:11 (although in the Hebrew text not at the beginning of the sentence) points to the opening of a new subsection in the passage (as does the fact that it follows the chiasmus in Proverbs 3:1-10). Here YHWH is seen as acting to ensure the reception of His wisdom by those whom He loves. And He does it by means of... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 3:1-35

Proverbs 3:1-2 Samuel : . Fourth Discourse.— The sage exhorts the young man to heed his oral instruction ( torah) , and to trust in Yahweh, fear Him, and honour Him in the prescribed manner of firstfruits. It is interesting to find torah used in its earlier prophetic sense of oral instruction, without reference to its later sense of the whole body of legislation represented by the Pentateuch. The torah of the wise man represents not his own individual authority, but the accumulated wisdom of... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 3:11

Despise not the chastening of the Lord; either, 1. By making light of it, or not being duly affected with if; and so this is one extreme opposed to the other in the next clause. Or rather, 2. By accounting it an unnecessary, and useless, and troublesome thing; but rather esteem it as a privilege and favour from God, and a benefit to thyself; for such negatives do oft imply the contrary affirmatives by a common figure called meiosis, as Proverbs 17:21, and oft elsewhere. And this sense seems to... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Proverbs 3:7-12

CRITICAL NOTES.—Proverbs 3:8. Navel, “body” or “muscles.” Marrow, literally “refreshing,” “moistening,” in contrast to the condition described in Psalms 32:3-4. Proverbs 3:11. Despite not, or “loathe not,” “shrink not.” The word, according to Miller, means “to melt.” Chastening, “discipline,” “correction.” Proverbs 3:12. The latter clause of this verse should be read, “and holds him dear, or does him a favour, as a father does his son.” MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Proverbs 3:7-12THE WAY... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Proverbs 3:11

Proverbs 3:11 I. Affliction acts as a dyke against the overflow of evil; it incessantly restrains and thrusts it back. Sin finds its limit in suffering; passion strikes against pain as a fatal bourne, where it perishes; lust is quenched in disgust; and death is there to say to the raging waves of our dissolute passions, "Thus far shall ye go and no farther." Thus far; namely, to that gravestone against which evil always dashes itself at last. II. Suffering is not a blessing simply because it... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Proverbs 3:1-35

Chapter 3Chapter 3 continues toMy son, forget not my law; but let your heart keep my commandments: For length of days, long life, peace, shall they add to thee ( Proverbs 3:1-2 ).Now these are the three. And we get now into some couplets here. He gives sort of a word, and then he tells you what the result of it will be. And to keep the commandment in your heart, it will grant to you the length of days, long life, peace will they add to thee. Now the next little statement:Let not mercy and truth... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Proverbs 3:1-35

Proverbs 3:2 . Length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. The premature death denounced against the profligate, and the victims of the harlot, shall be far from thy dwelling. The truth of this promise, of frequent occurrence in the sacred writings, is demonstrated by the longevity of many scripture characters; and eternal life, by way of apposition, is understood. Proverbs 3:3 . Bind them about thy neck. As vain persons decorate their bodies with gems and... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 3:1-35

Proverbs 3:1-35My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments.Useful precepts and inspiring motivesI. To remember and keep in our hearts the things written in this book (Proverbs 3:1-2). Interest dictates to us the propriety of keeping God’s commandments.II. To live in the exercise of mercy and truth (Proverbs 3:3), in every part of our intercourse with our fellow-creatures, however defective they may be in the practice of these virtues to us. As workers under the Spirit we... read more

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Proverbs 3:1-12

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 3:1-35

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 3:11-20

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 3:1-35

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 3:11

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Proverbs 3:7-12

Sermon Bible Commentary - Proverbs 3:11

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Proverbs 3:1-35

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Proverbs 3:1-35

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 3:1-35

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