Proverbs 14:18 (BSB)

The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

From Proverbs 14. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 14:18

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 14:18: Note, 1. Sin is the shame of sinners: The simple, who love simplicity, get nothing by it; they inherit folly. They have it by inheritance, so some. This corruption of nature is derived from our first parents, and all the calamities that attend it we have by kind; it was the inheritance they transmitted to their degenerate race, an hereditary disease.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 14:18: The simple inherit folly,.... It is natural and hereditary to them, they are born like wild asses colts; the foolish sayings and proverbs, customs and practices, of their ancestors, though they have been demonstrated to be mere folly, yet these, their posterity, approve them; they love, like, and retain them as their patrimony, Job 11:12.
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 14:18: inherit--as a portion (compare Pro 3:35). are crowned--literally, "are surrounded with it," abound in it.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 14:18: Pro 14:18 18 The simple have obtained folly as an inheritance; But the prudent put on knowledge as a crown. As a parallel word to נחלוּ, יכתּרוּ (after the Masora defective), also in the sense of Arab. âkthar, multiplicare, abundare (from Arab. kathura, to be much, perhaps properly comprehensive, encompassing), would be appropriate, but it is a word properly Arabic.