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Proverbs 3:11

despise not. shrink not from. Quoted from Job 1:20, and in Hebrews 12:5; Hebrews 12:6; James 5:17. Compare Job 34:31; Job 34:32. One of the passages quoted in the NT. from Proverbs, viz. Proverbs 3:11; Proverbs 3:12 (in Hebrews 12:5; Hebrews 12:6. Compare Revelation 3:19); Proverbs 3:34 (James 4:6); Proverbs 11:31 (in 1 Peter 4:18); Proverbs 25:21; Proverbs 25:22 (in Romans 12:20); Proverbs 26:11 (in 2 Peter 2:22). Illustrations: David (2 Samuel 15:25; 2 Samuel 15:26; 2 Samuel 16:10; 2 Samuel 23:5); Hezekiah (Isaiah 39:5, contrast Ahaz, 2 Chronicles 28:22, and Jehoram, 2 Kings 6:31); Jerusalem (Zephaniah 3:2. Compare Isaiah 1:5).

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See also Proverbs 3:11 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Proverbs 3:11. _DESPISE NOT THE CHASTENING OF THE LORD_] The word מוסר _musar_ signifies _correction, discipline_, and _instruction_. _Teaching_ is essentially necessary to show the man the _wa...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    DESPISE ... BE WEARY - The temper is not that of contempt. To struggle impatiently, to fret and chafe, when suffering comes on us, is the danger to which we are exposed when we do not accept it as fro...

  • 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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Fifth Address. Chap. 3. Proverbs 3:11 11, 12. This short paragraph is at once in contrast and in harmony, with what precedes and follows it. It states the contrast that it may introduce the harmony. T...

  • 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

    My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction: MY SON, DESPISE NOT THE CHASTENING OF THE LORD; NEITHER BE WEARY OF HIS CORRECTION. Since heretofore Solomon had...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    3:11 instruction (m-6) See ch. 1.2. chastisement; (n-14) Or 'loathe not his reproof.'...

  • 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

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

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Many people do not want to learn how to behave well. They want to choose how they will live their lives. God is our father. A father teaches his son. Sometimes, the father must correct or punish his...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    DESPISE NOT THE CHASTENING OF THE LORD... — Comp. Job 5:17. A wonderful advance beyond the teaching of the Pentateuch: _e.g.,_ Deuteronomy 28, in which the Jews had to be treated as children, and puni...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    מוּסַ֣ר יְ֭הוָה בְּנִ֣י אַל ־תִּמְאָ֑ס וְ אַל

  • 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),...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Him. Correction is rather a proof of love than of anger, Psalm iii. 19. (Calmet) --- God thus shews that he approves of his servants; and therefore his other promises, which seem of a temporal nature...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction: For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth. The apostle quotes this pass...

  • 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

    MY SON, DESPISE NOT THE CHASTENING OF THE LORD,.... This seems to be introduced to prevent an objection that may be made to the above promise of plenty; seeing the children of God are often afflicted...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction: Ver. 11. _Despise not the chastening of the Lord._] Slight it not, but "sit alone," Lam 3:28 and "consider." Ecc 7:...

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

    _My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord_ Either by making light of it, or not being duly affected with it, or by accounting it an unnecessary thing; but rather esteem it a privilege and favour...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, the correction which He deals out in the school of life; NEITHER BE WEARY OF HIS CORRECTION, regarding it with loathing and aversion;...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    OBEDIENCE, FAITH, AND LIBERALITY URGED...

  • 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

    DESPISE NOT THE CHASTENING OF THE LORD; either, 1. By making light of it, or not being duly affected with if; and so this is one extreme opposed to the other in the next clause. Or rather, 2. By acco...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Proverbs 3:11 son H1121 despise H3988 (H8799) chastening H4148 LORD H3068 detest H6973 (H8799) correction H8433

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YHWH AS CHASTENING FATHER AND WISE CREATOR INCULCATES WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING AS A TREE OF LIFE TO THOSE WHOM HE LOVES (PROVERBS 3:11). The reference to ‘my son' in Proverbs 3:11 (although in the Heb...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Proverbs 3:11 I. Affliction acts as a dyke against the overflow of evil; it incessantly restrains and thrusts it back. Sin finds its limit in suffering; passion strikes against pain as a fatal bourne,...

  • 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

    _Despise not the chastening of the Lord._ CHASTISEMENTS DISCIPLINARY The text is a kind of condensation of practical wisdom for the direction of life. It has reference to those dealings of God with m...

  • 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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 3:11 A father should shape his own parenting (DISCIPLINE) according to the pattern set by the LORD’S parenting. See...

  • 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

    1 Corinthians 11:32; 2 Corinthians 4:1; 2 Corinthians 4:16; 2 Corinthians 4:17;...

  • 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...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Despise not — Either by making light of it, or not being duly affected with it; or by accounting it an unnecessary thing: but rather esteem it a privilege and favour from God. Weary — Neither think it...

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