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See also Proverbs 1:16 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Proverbs 1:16. _FOR THEIR FEET RUN TO EVIL_] The whole of this verse is wanting in the _Septuagint_, and in the _Arabic_....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS A detailed analysis, as we have made it in other books, cannot be fully made in this collection of proverbs. Most of them are detached and each has a message by itself. To int...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    PROVERBS 1-9. FIRST SECTION. THE PRAISE OF WISDOM. Proverbs 1:1. Title, either of the whole book, or of this particular collection. The word for PROVERB, _mâ shâ l,_ has a wide significance _in Heb....

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THEIR FEET. they. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of the Part), App-6, for the persons who run. Quoted in Romans 3:15. evil. mischief. Hebrew. _rcl'a'._ App-44....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    TEXT - Proverbs 1:10-19 10. My son, if sinners entice thee, Consent thou not. 11. If they say, Come with us, Let us lay in wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause; 12...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. FOR THEIR FEET RUN TO EVIL, AND MAKE HASTE TO SHED BLOOD. is drawn from this. Compare for FOR THEIR FEET RUN TO EVIL, AND MAKE HASTE TO SHE...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    The chapter falls into three principal divisions. 1-6. Title and Introduction explaining the object of the whole book, which is to instruct the inexperienced and add to the educated man's knowledge. I...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ ABOUT THE BOOK OF PROVERBS King Solomon ruled the nation of Israel for 40 years. He brought peace and wealth to the nation. Solomon’s workmen built pa...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE THIEVES’ PLAN In Solomon’s story, a band of thieves have a cruel plan. The thieves ask a young man to join them. Together, they will attack someone else. They will steal from him, and murder him...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    FOR THEIR FEET... — The first reason against taking part with them: the horrible nature of the crime they are committing....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּ֣י רַ֭גְלֵיהֶם לָ † רַ֣ע יָר֑וּצוּ וִֽ֝...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 2 THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge."- Proverbs 1:7 "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: And the knowledge of the Holy One is understa...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “THE BEGINNING OF KNOWLEDGE” Proverbs 1:1-19 Notice the perfect balance of each clause, and the duplication of the one thought in the two clauses of each verse. _Wisdom_ as used in this book is more...

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

    The Book of Proverbs is one of the wisdom books of the Hebrew people. Emotionally and fundamentally, wisdom is the fear of God; intellectually, a knowledge of the manifestations of the divine wisdom;...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck. My son, if sinners entice thee, cons...

  • 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

    FOR THEIR FEET RUN TO EVIL,.... To the evil of sin, to commit robberies and murder, and all manner of iniquity; they are eager upon it, and in haste and swift to do it, Proverbs 6:18 x; being carried...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. Ver. 16. _For their feet run to evil._] By the abuse of their locomotive faculty, given them to a better purpose. They "run," as if they shou...

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

    _Walk not thou in the way with them_ Avoid their courses, their conversation, and company. _Refrain thy foot from their path_ If thou shouldst have any thought, inclination, or temptation to hearken t...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    A FUNDAMENTAL TRAIT OF WISDOM IS THE AVOIDANCE OF WICKEDNESS...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    for their feet run to evil and make haste to shed blood, wherefore all godly people will shun the pathway of crime....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    10-19 Wicked people are zealous in seducing others into the paths of the destroyer: sinners love company in sin. But they have so much the more to answer for. How cautious young people should be! "Co...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THEIR FEET RUN; they make haste, as it follows, without considering what they are doing. TO EVIL; to do evil to others, as was expressed PROVERBS 1:11,12, which also will bring evil upon themselves. T...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Proverbs 1:16 feet H7272 run H7323 (H8799) evil H7451 haste H4116 (H8762) shed H8210 (H8800) blood...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    PROLOGUE TO THE BOOK (PROVERBS 1:8 TO PROVERBS 9:18). It was common throughout the 3rd to the 1st millenniums BC for collections of wisdom saying to have a prologue preparing for the ‘sayings' that wo...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE COMPELLING NEED TO AVOID THE ENTICEMENTS OF SINNERS MOTIVATED BY GREED (PROVERBS 1:10). Solomon now vividly portrays the dangers of greed and violence, two things which often go together. The one...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    DISCOURSE 1. ADDRESSED TO ‘MY SON'. THOSE WHO SEEK TO WALK IN THE FEAR OF YHWH WILL LISTEN TO THE INSTRUCTION OF GODLY AUTHORITY, AND WILL AVOID THE ENTICEMENTS OF SINNERS MOTIVATED BY GREED. WISDOM I...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    PROLOGUE TO THE BOOK (PROVERBS 1:8 TO PROVERBS 9:18). It was common throughout the 3rd to the 1st millenniums BC for collections of wisdom saying to have a prologue preparing for the ‘sayings' that wo...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Wisdom's reasoning with the children of men and the certain ruin of those who turn a deaf ear to Wisdom's call. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son, Wisdom, (Christ). CONCLUSION: Of all thin...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Proverbs 1:1. _Proverbs,_ apothegms, parables, sentences, similitudes. The proverbs of a nation are the compressions of wisdom into short maxims, which like the coins of a country worn bare by use, pa...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _My son, if sinners entice thee._ REASONS FOR RESISTING THE ENTICEMENTS OF SINNERS By sinners is meant all persons who are not true Christians. Three reasons why we should not consent when sinners e...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 1:8 A Father’s Invitation to Wisdom. This section describes the two paths implied in Proverbs 1:7: the wise (grounded in the fear of the Lord) an

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 1:10. ENTICE THEE, “lay thee open.” Miller here reads “if sinners would make a door of thy simplicity, afford thou no entrance.” PROVERBS 1:17. Some interpret this verse as...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION PROVERBS 1:1 PART I. THE TITLE AND SUPERSCRIPTION. The superscription of the Proverbs, which extends from verse 1 to verse 6, furnishes us with an epitome in short and concise language of...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Shall we turn in our Bibles tonight to Proverbs, chapter 1. The first six verses are sort of a preface to the book, as authors many times write a preface to their work. The Proverbs of Solomon the so...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Isaiah 59:7; Proverbs 4:16; Proverbs 6:18; Romans 3:5...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON Proverbs 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Solomon's great choice. It was in Gibeon that the Lord appeared unto Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, "Ask what I shall give thee...

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