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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Proverbs 3:25

Be not — Thou shalt not be afraid. Sudden — For sudden and unexpected evils are most frightful. And fear is here put for the evils feared. Desolation — Which cometh upon the wicked.

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See also Proverbs 3:25 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Under the form of this strong prohibition there is an equally strong promise. So safe will all thy ways be that to fear will be a sin....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The call and promise of wisdom (Proverbs 3:1)_ 2. Happy is the man that findeth wisdom (Proverbs 3:11) 3. Promise and instruction (Proverbs 3:21)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    FOURTH Discourse. The sage exhorts the young man to heed his oral instruction (_torah),_ and to trust in Yahweh, fear Him, and honour Him in the prescribed manner of firstfruits. It is interesting to...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BE NOT AFRAID, &C. Illustrations: Moses (Exodus 14:13; Exodus 14:14); Rahab (Joshua 6:24; Joshua 6:25.

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Be not afraid_ Dean Plumptre (_Speaker's Comm_.) points out that, "under the form of this strong prohibition there is of course an equally strong promise," so that these two verses add yet another to...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    MY SON, LET NOT THEM DEPART, &C.— Wisdom gives life, health, safety, to body and soul: it is the most precious ornament of those who possess it: for the rest, when the wise man in so many places promi...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    TEXT Proverbs 3:13-26 13. Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, And the man that getteth understanding. 14. For the gaining of it is better than the gaining of silver, And the profit thereof tha...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh. BE NOT AFRAID OF SUDDEN FEAR, NEITHER OF THE DESOLATION OF THE WICKED (I:E., OF THE DESOLATION WHICH THE WICKE...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE BLESSINGS OF OBEDIENCE AND OF CHASTISEMENT The first and third divisions, 1-10, 21-35, are exhortations to good conduct and promises of consequent blessing. The second, 11-20, declares the profit...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    This is another passage that compares life with a journey. This passage teaches us that God will protect us. We have nothing to fear. Many Psalms teach a similar lesson. See Psalms 121; Psalms 46:1, a...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 3 V1 My son, do not forget my law. Keep my commands in your heart. v

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    DESOLATION OF THE WICKED. — That is, the storm which overwhelms them....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אַל ־תִּ֭ירָא מִ פַּ֣חַד פִּתְאֹ֑ם וּ מִ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 10 TWO VOICES IN THE HIGH PLACES OF THE CITY Proverbs 9:1, Proverbs 20:14 with Proberbs 3, and Proverbs 20:16 with Prove

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    WISDOM'S WAYS OF PLEASANTNESS Proverbs 3:13-26 Wisdom is susceptible of cultivation. It is a _mine_ that needs to be worked with patient toil. Compare Proverbs 3:13-15 with Job 28:18. It is comparab...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    As the former address had to do with the search for wisdom, this, in view of the value of if is an appeal to cultivate wisdom. The appeal consists of a declaration of its essence (verses Pro 3:1-10),...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (l) Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh. (l) For when God destroys the wicked he will save his as he did Lot in Sodom....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh. For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken. Withhold not good from them to wh...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 9. There are two very distinct parts in this book. The first nine Chapter s, which give the great general principles; and the proverbs, properly so...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BE NOT AFRAID OF SUDDEN FEAR,.... Of anything terrible that comes unawares, unthought of, by any of the above things mentioned in the preceding note; or by any rumours and reports of danger being near...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh. Ver. 25. _Be not afraid._] Or, Thou shalt not be afraid. _Nec si fractus illabatur orbis._ Sudden evils do commo...

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

    _When thou liest down thou shalt not be afraid_ Of fire, or thieves, or any of the terrors of the darkness, knowing that when thou and all thy friends are asleep, yet He that keepeth Israel, and every...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE HAPPINESS OF POSSESSING TRUE WISDOM...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Be not afraid of sudden fear, such an alarm as would tend to fill the heart with terror, NEITHER OF THE DESOLATION OF THE WICKED WHEN IT COMETH, who would come sweeping along like a destructive tempes...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    21-26 Let us not suffer Christ's words to depart from us, but keep sound wisdom and discretion; then shall we walk safely in his ways. The natural life, and all that belongs to it, shall be under the...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    BE NOT AFRAID, i.e. thou shalt not be afraid. For that it is a promise, seems most probable from the context; only it is for greater emphasis delivered in the form of a precept; I allow thee and requi...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Proverbs 3:25 afraid H3372 (H8799) sudden H6597 terror H6343 trouble H7722 wicked H7563 comes H935 (H8799)...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    RESPONDING TO GOD'S WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING WILL RESULT IN LIFE, PEACE AND SECURITY BUT MUST RESULT IN POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR TOWARDS OTHERS, FOR YHWH WILL BLESS THE RIGHTEOUS, LOWLY AND WISE WHILST HE W...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The power of true wisdom to make men both blessed and a blessing. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: Those who have a continual regard to God's precepts and put themselves unde...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Proverbs 3:2. _Length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee._ The premature death denounced against the profligate, and the victims of the harlot, shall be far from thy dwelling. T...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh._ For the Lord shall be thy confidence. CONFIDENT ATTITUDE OF GOD’S PEOPLE When God is abroad in judgments, He...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Happy is the man that findeth wisdom._ WISDOM I. The pleasures of wisdom. 1. Present happiness. 2. Lasting happiness. II. The preciousness of wisdom (Proverbs 3:14). Many figures are employed to...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments._ USEFUL PRECEPTS AND INSPIRING MOTIVES I. To remember and keep in our hearts the things written in this book (Proverbs 3:1). Int...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 3:21. THEM, _i.e._ “sound wisdom and discretion;” SOUND WISDOM, the same word as in chap. Proverbs 2:7 (see notes there). Miller translates here, as there, “_something stabl...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION PROVERBS 3:1 4. _Fourth admonitory discourse. _The third chapter introduces us to a group of admonitions, and the first of these (Proverbs 3:1) forms the fourth admonitory discourse of the...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Chapter 3 continues to My son, forget not my law; but let your heart keep my commandments: For length of days, long life, peace, shall they add to thee (Proverbs 3:1-2). Now these are the three. And...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Peter 3:14; Daniel 3:17; Daniel 3:18; Isaiah 41:10; Isaiah 8:12;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    SEEKING AFTER WISDOM Proverbs 3:13 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The wise man versus the foolish man. Many a man who thinks himself to be wise is a fool. Why? Because he is building his hopes upon the sand....

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