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Proverbs 3:7

Wrong types of wisdom and intelligence

There is a wrong type of wisdom. Verse 7 mentions ‘your own wisdom’.

There is also a wrong type of intelligence. Verse 5 mentions ‘your own intelligence’.

There is a difference between our own wisdom and God’s wisdom. Also, there is a difference between our own intelligence and God’s intelligence. God is wiser than we are. And God is more intelligent than any person is. See Isaiah 55:8-9.

We must not be proud. All true wisdom comes from God. Our own ideas may be good. But they are never better than God’s wisdom.

God teaches his wisdom to us. It is God’s gift to us. Do not confuse your own ideas with God’s wisdom!

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See also Proverbs 3:7 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The great hindrance to all true wisdom is the thought that we have already attained it....

  • 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 WISE, &C. Illustrations: Ahab (1Ki 22:30, 1 Kings 22:34; 1 Kings 22:35); Jeroboam (1Ki 12:26-33. 1 Kings 13:33; 1 Kings 13:34.

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Fourth Address. Chap. Proverbs 3:1-10 Be obedient to my instruction, so shalt thou live long and prosper (Proverbs 3:1). Trust, not in thyself, but in God (Proverbs 3:5). Seek His direction ...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The first clause of this verse in the rendering of the LXX., φρόνιμος παρὰ σεαυτῷ, is quoted by St Paul, Romans 12:16....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    BE NOT WISE IN THINE OWN EYES, &C.— He employs all his authority, and all his eloquence, to exhort us to search after wisdom; but he would not by any means that we should be wise in our own eyes: he w...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    CHAPTER 3 TEXT Proverbs 3:1-12 1. My son, forget not my law; But let thy heart keep my commandments: 2. For length of days, and years of life, And peace, will they add to thee. 3. Let not kind...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. BE NOT WISE IN THINE OWN EYES (): FEAR THE LORD, AND DEPART FROM EVIL. Do not think so highly of thine own wisdom as to think tho...

  • 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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    FEAR THE LORD, AND DEPART FROM EVIL. — The same result is reached by Job also (Proverbs 28:28) in his inquiry after wisdom....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אַל ־תְּהִ֣י חָכָ֣ם בְּ עֵינֶ֑יךָ יְרָ֥א אֶת

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 4 THE EARTHLY REWARDS OF WISDOM Proverbs 3:1 THE general teaching of these nine introductory Chapter s is that the "ways of Wisdom are pleasantness, and all her paths are peace." We are taug...

  • 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

    THE RESULTS OF TRUSTING JEHOVAH Proverbs 3:1-12 How replete with helpful instruction on the policy of life is this paragraph! The _young_ of both sexes are invited to be merciful in their judgments...

  • 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),...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones. Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine...

  • 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 WISE IN THINE OWN EYES,.... So as to act independently of God; not to trust in him, nor acknowledge him, nor seek to him for help and direction; nor ask nor take the advice of others; but, bein...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. Ver. 7. _Be not wise in thine own eyes._] _Bis desipit qui sibi sapit._ He is two fools that is wise in his own eyes. This δοκησισο...

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

    _Be not wise in thine own eyes_ Be not puffed up with a vain conceit of thine own wisdom, as if that were sufficient for the conduct of all thine affairs, without direction and assistance from God, or...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    OBEDIENCE, FAITH, AND LIBERALITY URGED...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Be not wise in thine own eyes, puffed up with an imagined superiority on account of possible greater learning, since the wisdom of this world is not essential before God; FEAR THE LORD, such reverence...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    7-12 There is not a greater enemy to the fear of the Lord in the heart, than self-conceit of our own wisdom. The prudence and sobriety which religion teaches, tend not only to the health of the soul,...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    BE NOT WISE IN THINE OWN EYES; be not puffed up with vain conceit of thine own wisdom, as if that were sufficient for the conduct of all thine affairs without direction or assistance from God, or with...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Proverbs 3:7 wise H2450 eyes H5869 Fear H3372 (H8798) LORD H3068 depart H5493 (H8798) evil H7451 Be -

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    INTRODUCTORY EXHORTATION FOLLOWED BY THE REQUIREMENT TO TRUST IN YHWH, TO FEAR YHWH AND TO HONOUR YHWH (PROVERBS 3:1). Solomon here speaks of wisdom and understanding in terms of ‘my torah -- my comma...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    FEAR Also; (Proverbs 2:5). (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 19:9). _...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Proverbs 3:7 I. The text may be paraphrased and expanded thus: God has taught you by various ways by your own experience and that of others; above all, by the warnings of conscience and the voice of r...

  • 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 wise in thine own eyes._ SELF-CONCEIT (see Isaiah 5:21):-- I. It involves self-ignorance. No one who knows himself could be conceited. Let the wisest man think of two things-- 1. His knowl...

  • 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 3:8. NAVEL, “body” or “muscles.” MARROW, literally “refreshing,” “moistening,” in contrast to the condition described in Psalms 32:3. PROVERBS 3:11. DESPITE NOT, or “loathe...

  • 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

    Ecclesiastes 12:13; Isaiah 5:21; Job 1:1; Job 28:28; Nehemiah 5:15;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    LEST WE FORGET Proverbs 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Book of Proverbs speaks several times of the danger of forgetting God and His Commandments. We are firmly convinced that herein is a danger that w...

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