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Proverbs (Mishlei) is the manual of applied wisdom for covenant living. Wisdom in Proverbs is not abstract philosophy but ordered perception of reality — the recognition that creation has a moral grain, that fear of YHWH is the beginning of all true knowledge, and that human flourishing follows the design built into the fabric of things.
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- Primary Witness Text: Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table. She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city, Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled. Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding. He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot. Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding. For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased. If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it. A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing. For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city, To call passengers who go right on their ways: Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depth...
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Proverbs (Mishlei) is the manual of applied wisdom for covenant living. Wisdom in Proverbs is not abstract philosophy but ordered perception of reality — the recognition that creation has a moral grain, that fear of YHWH is the beginning of all true knowledge, and that human flourishing follows the design built into the fabric of things.
Proverbs 8's personified Wisdom — present at creation, delighting before God — is cited by early Church Fathers as a window into the eternal Son. The book's practical ethics (sexual integrity, speech, work, generosity) embody a worldview in which creation's design is the source of moral instruction.
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Proverbs 9:1
Hebrew
חָכְמוֹת בָּנְתָה בֵיתָהּ חָצְבָה עַמּוּדֶיהָ שִׁבְעָֽה׃chakhemvot-vanetah-veytah-chatzevah-'amvdeyha-shive'ah
KJV: Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:
AKJV: Wisdom has built her house, she has hewn out her seven pillars:
ASV: Wisdom hath builded her house;
YLT: Wisdom hath builded her house, She hath hewn out her pillars--seven.
Exposition: Proverbs 9:1 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 9:2
Hebrew
טָבְחָה טִבְחָהּ מָסְכָה יֵינָהּ אַף עָֽרְכָה שֻׁלְחָנָֽהּ׃tavechah-tivechah-masekhah-yeynah-'af-'arekhah-shulechanah
KJV: She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.
AKJV: She has killed her beasts; she has mingled her wine; she has also furnished her table.
ASV: She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine;
YLT: She hath slaughtered her slaughter, She hath mingled her wine, Yea, she hath arranged her table.
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Proverbs 9:2
Verse 2 She hath killed her beasts - God has made the most ample provision for the innumerable tribes of animal and intellectual beings, which people the whole vortex of created nature.
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Exposition: Proverbs 9:2 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 9:3
Hebrew
שָֽׁלְחָה נַעֲרֹתֶיהָ תִקְרָא עַל־גַּפֵּי מְרֹמֵי קָֽרֶת׃shalechah-na'aroteyha-tiqera'-'al-gafey-meromey-qaret
KJV: She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,
AKJV: She has sent forth her maidens: she cries on the highest places of the city,
ASV: She hath sent forth her maidens;
YLT: She hath sent forth her damsels, She crieth on the tops of the high places of the city:
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Proverbs 9:3
Verse 3 She hath sent forth her maidens - The wisdom of God has made use of the most proper means to communicate Divine knowledge to the inhabitants of the earth; as a good and gracious Creator wills to teach them whence they came, how they are supported, whither they are going, and for what end they were formed. It is a custom to the present day, in Asiatic countries, to send their invitations to guests by a company of females, preceded by eunuchs: they go to the doors of the invited, and deliver their message.
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Exposition: Proverbs 9:3 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 9:4
Hebrew
מִי־פֶתִי יָסֻר הֵנָּה חֲסַר־לֵב אָמְרָה לּֽוֹ׃miy-fetiy-yasur-henah-chasar-lev-'amerah-lvo
KJV: Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
AKJV: Whoever is simple, let him turn in here: as for him that wants understanding, she says to him,
ASV: Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither:
YLT: `Who is simple? let him turn aside hither.' Whoso lacketh heart: she hath said to him,
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Proverbs 9:4
Verse 4 Whoso is simple - Let the young, heedless, and giddy attend to my teaching. Him that wanteth understanding - Literally, he that wanteth a heart; who is without couraye, is feeble and fickle, and easily drawn aside from the holy commandment.
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Proverbs 9:4
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Exposition: Proverbs 9:4 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 9:5
Hebrew
לְכוּ לַחֲמוּ בְֽלַחֲמִי וּשְׁתוּ בְּיַיִן מָסָֽכְתִּי׃lekhv-lachamv-velachamiy-vshetv-veyayin-masakhetiy
KJV: Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.
AKJV: Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.
ASV: Come, eat ye of my bread,
YLT: `Come, eat of my bread, And drink of the wine I have mingled.
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Proverbs 9:5
Verse 5 Come, eat of my bread - Not only receive my instructions, but act according to my directions. Drink of the wine - I have mingled - Enter into my counsels; be not contented with superficial knowledge on any subject, where any thing deeper may be attained. Go by the streams to the fountain head. Look into the principles on which they were formed; investigate their nature, examine their properties, acquaint thyself with their relations, connections, influences, and various uses. See the skill power, and goodness of God in their creation. And when thou hast learned all within thy reach, know that thou knowest but little of the manifold wisdom of God. Let what thou hast learned humble thee, by showing thee how very little thou dost know. Thou hast drunk of the provided wine; but that wine was mingled with water, for God will hide pride from man. He dwells only on the surface of religious and philosophical learning, who does not perceive and feel that he is yet but a child in knowledge; that he see through a glass darkly; that he perceives men like trees walking; and that there are lengths, breadths, depths, and heights, in the works and ways of God, which it will require an eternity to fathom. Here below the pure wine is mingled with water: but this is God's work. Yet there is enough; do not therefore be contented with a little. To this subject the words of the poet may be well applied: - A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: For scanty draughts intoxicate the brain, But drinking largely sobers us again. Pope Among the ancient Jews, Greek, and Romans, wine was rarely drank without being mingled with water; and among ancient writers we find several ordinances for this. Some direct three parts of water to one of wine; some five parts; and Pliny mentions some wines that required twenty waters: but the most common proportions appear to have been three parts of water to two of wine. But probably the יין מסך yayin masach, mingled wine, was wine mingled, not with water, to make it weaker; but with spices and other ingredients to make it stronger. The ingredients were honey, myrrh, mandragora, opium, and such like, which gave it not only an intoxicating but stupifying quality also. Perhaps the mixed wine here may mean wine of the strongest and best quality, that which was good to cheer and refresh the heart of man. If we consider the mixed wine as meaning this strong wine, then the import of the metaphor will be, a thorough investigation of the works of God will invigorate the soul, strengthen all the mental powers, enlarge their capacity, and enable the mind to take the most exalted views of the wonders of God's skill manifested in the operations of his hand.
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Proverbs 9:5
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Exposition: Proverbs 9:5 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 9:6
Hebrew
עִזְבוּ פְתָאיִם וִֽחְיוּ וְאִשְׁרוּ בְּדֶרֶךְ בִּינָֽה׃'izevv-feta'yim-vicheyv-ve'isherv-vederekhe-viynah
KJV: Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
AKJV: Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
ASV: Leave off, ye simple ones, and live;
YLT: Forsake ye, the simple, and live, And be happy in the way of understanding.
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Proverbs 9:6
Verse 6 Forsake the foolish - For the companion of fools must be a fool. And live - Answer the end for which thou wert born.
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Exposition: Proverbs 9:6 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 9:7
Hebrew
יֹסֵר ׀ לֵץ לֹקֵחַֽ לוֹ קָלוֹן וּמוֹכִיחַ לְרָשָׁע מוּמֽוֹ׃yoser- -letz-loqecha-lvo-qalvon-vmvokhiycha-lerasha'-mvmvo
KJV: He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.
AKJV: He that reproves a scorner gets to himself shame: and he that rebukes a wicked man gets himself a blot.
ASV: He that correcteth a scoffer getteth to himself reviling;
YLT: The instructor of a scorner Is receiving for it--shame, And a reprover of the wicked--his blemish.
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Proverbs 9:7
Verse 7 He that reproveth a scorner - לץ lets, the person who mocks at sacred things; the libertine, the infidel; who turns the most serious things into ridicule, and, by his wit, often succeeds in rendering the person who reproves him ridiculous. Wisdom seems here to intimate that it is vain to attempt by reproof to amend such: and yet we must not suffer sin upon our neighbor; at all hazards, we must deliver our own soul. But no reproof should be given to any, but in the spirit of love and deep concern; and when they contradict and blaspheme, leave them to God.
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Proverbs 9:7
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Exposition: Proverbs 9:7 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 9:8
Hebrew
אַל־תּוֹכַח לֵץ פֶּן־יִשְׂנָאֶךָּ הוֹכַח לְחָכָם וְיֶאֱהָבֶֽךָּ׃'al-tvokhach-letz-fen-yishena'ekha-hvokhach-lechakham-veye'ehavekha
KJV: Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
AKJV: Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate you: rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.
ASV: Reprove not a scoffer, lest he hate thee:
YLT: Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee, Give reproof to the wise, and he loveth thee.
Commentary Witness (Generated)Proverbs 9:8Generated editorial synthesis
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Proverbs 9:8
Proverbs 9:8 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
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Exposition: Proverbs 9:8 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 9:9
Hebrew
תֵּן לְחָכָם וְיֶחְכַּם־עוֹד הוֹדַע לְצַדִּיק וְיוֹסֶף לֶֽקַח׃ten-lechakham-veyechekham-'vod-hvoda'-letzadiyq-veyvosef-leqach
KJV: Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
AKJV: Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
ASV: Giveinstructionto a wise man, and he will be yet wiser:
YLT: Give to the wise, and he is wiser still, Make known to the righteous, And he increaseth learning.
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Proverbs 9:9
Verse 9 Give instruction to a wise man - Literally give to the wise, and he will be wise. Whatever you give to such, they reap profit from it. They are like the bee, they extract honey from every flower.
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Exposition: Proverbs 9:9 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 9:10
Hebrew
תְּחִלַּת חָכְמָה יִרְאַת יְהוָה וְדַעַת קְדֹשִׁים בִּינָֽה׃techilat-chakhemah-yire'at-yehvah-veda'at-qedoshiym-viynah
KJV: The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
AKJV: The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
ASV: The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom;
YLT: The commencement of wisdom is the fear of Jehovah, And a knowledge of the Holy Ones is understanding.
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Proverbs 9:10
Verse 10 The fear of the Lord - See on Pro 1:7 (note). The knowledge of the holy; קדשים kedoshim, of the holy ones: Sanctorum, of the saints - Vulgate. boulh agiwn, the counsel of the holy persons.
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- Vulgate
- Sanctorum
Exposition: Proverbs 9:10 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 9:11
Hebrew
כִּי־בִי יִרְבּוּ יָמֶיךָ וְיוֹסִיפוּ לְּךָ שְׁנוֹת חַיִּֽים׃khiy-viy-yirevv-yameykha-veyvosiyfv-lekha-shenvot-chayiym
KJV: For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.
AKJV: For by me your days shall be multiplied, and the years of your life shall be increased.
ASV: For by me thy days shall be multiplied,
YLT: For by me do thy days multiply, And added to thee are years of life.
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Proverbs 9:11
Verse 11 For by me thy days shall be multiplied - Vice shortens human life, by a necessity of consequence: and by the same, righteousness lengthens it. There is a long addition here in the Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate: "He who trusts in falsity feeds on the winds; and is like him who chases the fowls of heaven. He forsakes the way of his own vineyard, and errs from the paths of his own inheritance. He enters also into lonely and desert places, and into a land abandoned to thirst; and his hands collect that which yieldeth no fruit."
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- Septuagint
- Vulgate
- Syriac
Exposition: Proverbs 9:11 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 9:12
Hebrew
אִם־חָכַמְתָּ חָכַמְתָּ לָּךְ וְלַצְתָּ לְֽבַדְּךָ תִשָּֽׂא׃'im-chakhameta-chakhameta-lakhe-velatzeta-levadekha-tisha'
KJV: If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
AKJV: If you be wise, you shall be wise for yourself: but if you scorn, you alone shall bear it. ¶
ASV: If thou art wise, thou art wise for thyself;
YLT: If thou hast been wise, thou hast been wise for thyself, And thou hast scorned--thyself bearest it .
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Verse 12 If thou be wise - It is thy own interest to be religious. Though thy example may be very useful to thy neighbors and friends, yet the chief benefit is to thyself. But if thou scorn - refuse to receive - the doctrines of wisdom, and die in thy sins, thou alone shalt suffer the vengeance of an offended God.
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Exposition: Proverbs 9:12 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 9:13
Hebrew
אֵשֶׁת כְּסִילוּת הֹֽמִיָּה פְּתַיּוּת וּבַל־יָדְעָה מָּֽה׃'eshet-khesiylvt-homiyah-fetayvt-vval-yade'ah-mah
KJV: A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.
AKJV: A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knows nothing.
ASV: The foolish woman is clamorous;
YLT: A foolish woman is noisy, Simple, and hath not known what.
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Verse 13 A foolish woman is clamorous - Vain, empty women, are those that make most noise. And she that is full of clamor, has generally little or no sense. We have had this character already, see Pro 7:11. The translation of the Septuagint is very remarkable: Γυνη αφρων και θρασεια, ενδεης ψωμου γινεται, "A lewd and foolish woman shall be in need of a morsel of bread."
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- Septuagint
- Vain
Exposition: Proverbs 9:13 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 9:14
Hebrew
וְֽיָשְׁבָה לְפֶתַח בֵּיתָהּ עַל־כִּסֵּא מְרֹמֵי קָֽרֶת׃veyashevah-lefetach-veytah-'al-khise'-meromey-qaret
KJV: For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
AKJV: For she sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
ASV: And she sitteth at the door of her house,
YLT: And she hath sat at the opening of her house, On a throne--the high places of the city,
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Verse 14 For she sitteth at the door of her house - Her conduct here marks at once her folly, impudence, and poverty. See above on Pro 7:6 (note), etc., where the reader will find a similar character.
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Exposition: Proverbs 9:14 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 9:15
Hebrew
לִקְרֹא לְעֹֽבְרֵי־דָרֶךְ הַֽמְיַשְּׁרִים אֹֽרְחוֹתָֽם׃liqero'-le'overey-darekhe-hameyasheriym-'orechvotam
KJV: To call passengers who go right on their ways:
AKJV: To call passengers who go right on their ways:
ASV: To call to them that pass by,
YLT: To call to those passing by the way, Who are going straight on their paths.
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Proverbs 9:15
Proverbs 9:15 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'To call passengers who go right on their ways:'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
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Exposition: Proverbs 9:15 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'To call passengers who go right on their ways:'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 9:16
Hebrew
מִי־פֶתִי יָסֻר הֵנָּה וַחֲסַר־לֵב וְאָמְרָה לּֽוֹ׃miy-fetiy-yasur-henah-vachasar-lev-ve'amerah-lvo
KJV: Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
AKJV: Whoever is simple, let him turn in here: and as for him that wants understanding, she says to him,
ASV: Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither;
YLT: `Who is simple? let him turn aside hither.' And whoso lacketh heart--she said to him,
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Verse 16 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither - Folly or pleasure here personified, uses the very same expressions as employed by Wisdom, Pro 9:4. Wisdom says, "Let the simple turn in to me." No, says Folly, "Let the simple turn in to me." If he turn in to Wisdom, his folly shall be taken away and he shall become wise; if he turn in to Foliy, his darkness will be thickened, and his folly will remain. Wisdom sets up her school to instruct the ignorant: Folly sets her school up next door, to defeat the designs of Wisdom. Thus the saying of the satirist appears to be verified: - "Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil surely builds a chapel there. And it is found upon examination, The latter has the larger congregation." De Foe.
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- Ray
- Wisdom
- No
- Folly
- Foliy
- De Foe
Exposition: Proverbs 9:16 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 9:17
Hebrew
מַֽיִם־גְּנוּבִים יִמְתָּקוּ וְלֶחֶם סְתָרִים יִנְעָֽם׃mayim-genvviym-yimetaqv-velechem-setariym-yine'am
KJV: Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
AKJV: Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
ASV: Stolen waters are sweet,
YLT: `Stolen waters are sweet, And hidden bread is pleasant.'
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Verse 17 Stolen waters are sweet - I suppose this to be a proverbial mode of expression, importing that illicit pleasures are sweeter than those which are legal The meaning is easy to be discerned; and the conduct of multitudes shows that they are ruled by this adage. On it are built all the adulterous intercourses in the land.
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Exposition: Proverbs 9:17 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 9:18
Hebrew
וְֽלֹא־יָדַע כִּֽי־רְפָאִים שָׁם בְּעִמְקֵי שְׁאוֹל קְרֻאֶֽיהָ׃velo'-yada'-khiy-refa'iym-sham-ve'imeqey-she'vol-qeru'eyha
KJV: But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
AKJV: But he knows not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
ASV: But he knoweth not that the dead are there;
YLT: And he hath not known that Rephaim are there, In deep places of Sheol her invited ones!
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Verse 18 But he knoweth not that the dead are there - See on Pro 2:18 (note). He does not know that it was in this way the first apostates from God and truth walked. רפאים rephaim; gigantev, the Giants - Septuagint. The sons of men, the earth-born, to distinguish them from the sons of God, those who were born from above. See the notes on Gen 6:1, etc. Her guests are in the depths of hell - Those who have been drawn out of the way of understanding by profligacy have in general lost their lives, if not their souls, by their folly. The Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic make a long addition to this verse: "But draw thou back, that thou mayest not die in this place; neither fix thy eyes upon her; so shalt thou pass by those strange waters. But abstain thou from strange waters, and drink not of another's fountain, that thou mayest live a long time, and that years may be added to thy life." Of this addition there is nothing in the Hebrew, the Chaldee, or the Vulgate, as now printed: but in the editio princeps are the following words: Qui enim applicabitur illi descendet ad inferos; nam qui abscesserit ab ea salvabitur. These words were in the copy from which my old MS. Bible has been made, as the following version proves: Who forsoth schal ben joyned to hir, schal falle doun on to hell: for whi he that goth awai fro hir, schal be saved. Three of my own MSS. have the same reading.
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Proverbs 9:18
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- Gen 6:1
Named authorities or texts detected in the witness
- Septuagint
- Vulgate
- The Septuagint
- Syriac
- Chaldee
Exposition: Proverbs 9:18 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
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- Proverbs 9:5
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Proverbs 9:1
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