Bible Commentaries

Proverbs 1:24-31 — The Savior calls by his word, his providence, his ministers, conscience. But ye refused. Not till his calls have been refused, does he thunder forth his warnings. But such grace, so rich and free, yet rejected — who can take the gauge of this

Proverbs 1:32-33 — Again is the sinner’s ruin laid at his own door. He turns away from Wisdom’s beseeching voice. He despises the only remedy. He dies a suicide. It matters nothing to what we turn. If we turn away from God, we turn from our true, our eternal

Proverbs 1:7 — The preface has stated the object of this Book of Wisdom. The book itself now opens with a noble sentence. ’There is not’ — as Bishop Patrick observes — ’such a wise instruction to be found in all their books (speaking

Proverbs 17:15 — Judicial iniquity is an awful abuse of God’s authority. (Exodus 23:7 .) The judge or magistrate "is a minister of God for good." (Romans 13:4 .) The appeal is to him for justice, as the Representative of God. (Deuteronomy 25:1 .) If

Proverbs 24:1-2 — THIS counsel has been lately given. (Proverbs 23:17 .) But it is very difficult in the false glare of this world’s glory to "walk by faith, as the evidence of things not seen." (2 Corinthians 5:7 . Hebrews 11:1 .) In the confined atmosphere

Proverbs 25:23 — 23 The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue. {The north wind bringeth forth rain: so doth a backbiting tongue an angry countenance, margin.†a} Who should tolerate the backbiter? He is a pest in society;†1

Proverbs 3:1-2 — THIS is not the stern language of command. It is our Father’s voice in all the endearing persuasiveness of promise — My son — He had before instructed us to seek and search after wisdom, and set out before us its invaluable blessings.

Proverbs 3:7-8 — (Proverbs 3:7 quoted in the NT: Romans 12:16) This warning against self-confidence is closely connected with the preceding verse. The wise in his own eyes is he, that leans to his own understanding.†1 Such wisdom is folly and self-delusion.†2

Proverbs 31:1-2 — OF King Lemuel we know no more than of the prophet Agur in the last Chapter.†1 All that we know is, that he was endowed, like many of God’s people (Psalms 116:16 . 2 Timothy 1:5 ; 2 Timothy 3:15 ), with the invaluable blessing of a godly

Proverbs 31:10 — We now come to the principal part of the chapter. The wise mother of Lemuel had warned her royal son against the seduction of evil women, and its attendant temptations, and given him wholesome rules for government. She now sets before him the full-length

Proverbs 8:1-4 — LISTEN we now to the calls of heavenly Wisdom — to the voice of the Son of God.†1 Careless soul! shall thy Divine call be slighted, when the allurements of sin and vanity have had power to arrest thine ear?†2 Can ignorance be pleaded?

Proverbs 8:22-31 — It must be a perverted imagination that can suppose an attribute here.†† So glorious are the rays of eternal supreme Deity, distinct personality, and essential unity, that the mysterious, ever-blessed Being — "the Word, who