Proverbs 19:3 (BSB)

A man’s own folly subverts his way, yet his heart rages against the LORD.

From Proverbs 19. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 19:3

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 19:3: We have here two instances of men's folly: - 1. That they bring themselves into straits and troubles, and run themselves a-ground, and embarrass themselves: The foolishness of man perverts his way. Men meet with crosses and disappointments in their affairs, and things do not succeed as they expected and wished, and it is owing to themselves and their own folly; it is their own iniquity that corrects them. 2.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 19:3: The foolishness of man perverteth his way,.... The sinfulness of his heart and nature; the folly which is bound up in it causes him to go astray out of the way in which he should go, or makes things go cross with him; so that the ways he takes do not prosper, nor his schemes succeed; but everything goes against him, and he is brought...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 19:3: perverteth . . . way--turns him back from right (Pro 13:6; Jam 1:13); and he blames God for his failures.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 19:1-6: A man [that hath] friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend [that] sticketh closer than a brother. (q) That is, often such are found who are more ready to do pleasure, than he that is more bound by duty.