箴言 29:3

Chinese Union (Simplified)

爱 慕 智 慧 的 ， 使 父 亲 喜 乐 ； 与 妓 女 结 交 的 ， 却 浪 费 钱 财 。

Parallel Translations

Chinese NCV (Simplified)
喜愛智慧的，使父親喜樂；親近妓女的，耗盡家財。

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

loveth: Proverbs 10:1, Proverbs 15:20, Proverbs 23:15, Proverbs 23:24, Proverbs 23:25, Proverbs 27:11, Luke 1:13-17

he: Proverbs 5:8-10, Proverbs 6:26, Proverbs 21:17, Proverbs 21:20, Proverbs 28:7, Proverbs 28:19, Luke 15:13, Luke 15:30

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father,.... He that is a philosopher, especially a religious one, that not only loves and seeks after natural wisdom, but moral wisdom and knowledge; and more particularly evangelical wisdom, Christ the Wisdom of God, who is to be valued and loved above all things; the Gospel of Christ, which is the wisdom of God in a mystery; and the knowledge of it which is the wisdom which comes from above and is pure and peaceable; and which lies much in the fear of God, and in the faith of Jesus Christ, attended with all the fruits of righteousness: such a son makes glad his father, both because of his temporal good, since he does not waste but improve the substance he has given him; and because of his spiritual and eternal welfare; and since instead of being a reproach he is an honour to him; see Proverbs 10:1;

but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth [his] substance: his father has given him, and comes to want and beggary; all which is a grief to his parents: or, "that feeds harlots" i; who live in a riotous and voluptuous manner, and soon drain a man of his substance, and bring him to a morsel of bread; see Luke 15:13; and such a son grieves his father, seeing he spends his substance and damns his soul.

i רעה "nutrit", V. L. "pascit", Pagninus, Piscator, Gejerus, Schultens; "pascitur", Michaelis; "pascens", Montanus, Mercerus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Spendeth ... - The laws of parallelism would lead us to expect “troubleth his father,” but that is passed over as a thing about which the profligate would not care, and he is reminded of what comes home to him, that he is on the road to ruin.

The king - The ruler, as the supreme fountain of all justice, and as the ideal judge, is contrasted with the taker of bribers.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 29:3. But he that keepeth company — רעה roeh, he that feedeth harlots, יאבד yeabed, shall utterly destroy his substance. Has there ever been a single case to the contrary?