Proverbs 18:2-3 BSB

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 18:2

A fool may pretend to understanding, and to seek and intermeddle with the means of it, but, 1. He has no true delight in it; it is only to please his friends or save his credit; he does not love his book, nor his business, nor his Bible, nor his prayers; he would rather be playing the fool with his sports. Those who take no pleasure in learning or religion will make nothing to purpose of either. No progress is made in them if they are a task and a drudgery. 2. He has no good design in it, only... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 18:3

This may include a double sense:?1. That wicked people are scornful people, and put contempt upon others. When the wicked comes into any company, comes into the schools of wisdom or into the assemblies for religious worship, then comes contempt of God, of his people and ministers, and of every thing that is said and done. You can expect no other from those that are profane than that they will be scoffers; they will be an ignominy and reproach; they will flout and jeer every thing that is... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 18:2

A fool hath no delight in understanding ,.... In natural understanding, and in the improvement of his mind in it; he delights not in books, nor in the conversation of men of learning and sense: or in spiritual understanding, in the understanding of spiritual things; these are foolishness to a natural man; nor does he delight in reading the Scriptures, nor in hearing the word, and attendance on it in the house of God, but is weary of such exercises; but that his heart may discover itself ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 18:3

When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt ,.... When he comes into the world, as Aben Ezra; as soon as he is born, he is liable to contempt, being born in sin; but this is true of all: rather, as the Vulgate Latin, and with which the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions agree, when he cometh into the depth of sin, or to the height of his wickedness; he commences a scoffer at, and condemner of all that is good: when he comes into the house of God, it may be said, "there comes... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 18:2

But that his heart may discover itself - It is a fact that most vain and foolish people are never satisfied in company, but in showing their own nonsense and emptiness. But this verse may be understood as confirming the view already given of the preceding, and may be translated thus: "But a fool doth not delight in understanding, though it should even manifest itself:" so I understand בהתגלות אם כי ki im behithgalloth . The separated person seeks understanding in every hidden thing, and... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 18:3

When the wicked cometh, etc. - would it not be better to read this verse thus? "When the wicked cometh contempt cometh; and with ignominy cometh reproach." A wicked man is despised even by the wicked. He who falls under ignominy falls under reproach. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 18:1-9

Unsocial vices There is an inner connection between them all. I. MISANTHROPY . ( Proverbs 18:1 .) If this verse be more correctly rendered, this is the meaning yielded. From a diseased feeling the man turns aside to sullen solitude, and thus rejects wisdom. This affords a fine meaning. It is one thing to feel the need of occasional solitude, another to indulge the passion for singularity. II. OBTRUSIVENESS . ( Proverbs 18:2 .) Contrast Proverbs 18:4 . The talkative fool... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 18:2

A fool hath no delight in understanding. This may mean that he takes no pleasure in the wisdom of others, is self-opinionated; or, it may be, does not care for understanding in itself, apart from the use which he can make of it. Vulgate, "The fool receives not the words of wisdom;" Septuagint, "A man of no sense has no need of wisdom." To try to teach a fool is to cast pearls before swine, and to give that which is holy unto dogs. But that his heart may discover itself; i.e. his only... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 18:2

(See homily on Proverbs 17:16 , Proverbs 17:24 .)—C. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 18:3

When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt. The contempt here spoken of is not that with which the sinner is regarded, but that which he himself learns to feel for all that is pure and good and lovely ( Psalms 31:18 ). As the LXX . interprets, "When the wicked cometh into the depth of evil, he despiseth," he turns a despiser. So the Vulgate. Going forward in evil, adding sin to sin, he end by casting all shame aside, deriding the Law Divine and human, and saying in his heart,... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 18:2

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 18:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 18:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 18:3

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 18:2

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 18:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 18:1-9

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 18:2

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 18:2

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 18:3

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