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Matthew Henry Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 4 - Introduction

* Exhortation to the study of wisdom. (1-13) Cautions against bad company, Exhortation to faith and holiness. (14-27)

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See also Proverbs 4 - Introduction in other biblical comments:

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _SOLOMON, TO PERSUADE OBEDIENCE, SHEWETH WHAT INSTRUCTION HE HAD OF HIS PARENTS, TO STUDY WISDOM, AND TO SHUN THE PATH OF THE WICKED: HE EXHORTETH TO FAITH, AND SANCTIFICATION._...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:2 instruction; (i-5) 'Wisdom' here and in ver. 7 is _ chokmah_ . 'Instruction' means also, 'correction,' 'warning,' 'discipline,' Job 36:10 ....

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    INTRODUCTION TO PROVERBS 4 In this chapter Solomon advises to seek after wisdom, to avoid bad company, and to continue in the right paths of goodness and truth: he excites attention to what he had to...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _A.M. 3004. B.C. 1000._ Solomon, in this chapter, with great variety of expressions, and a powerful flood of divine eloquence, inculcates the same things upon us which he had expressed in the foregoi...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    DISCOURSE 4. ADDRESSED TO ‘SONS'. WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING ARE TO BE SOUGHT AND CHERISHED, FOR THEY PRODUCE SPIRITUAL BEAUTY, AND LEAD THOSE WHO RESPOND UNTO THE PERFECT DAY (PROVERBS 4:1). In Chapter...

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