Proverbs 2:10 (BSB)
For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul.
From Proverbs 2. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Proverbs 2:10
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 2:10-22: The scope of these verses is to show, 1. What great advantage true wisdom will be of to us; it will keep us from the paths of sin, which lead to ruin, and will therein do us a greater kindness than if it enriched us with all the wealth of the world. 2.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 2:10: When wisdom entereth into thine heart,.... Either Christ, the Wisdom of God; who enters there at conversion, and sets up a throne in the heart, and dwells there by faith: or else the Gospel, the wisdom of God in a mystery; which enters not into the head only, as in hypocrites and formal professors; nor into the natural affections, as in the stony ground hearers...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 2:10: Idea of Pro 2:9, amplified; on terms, compare Pro 2:2 and Pro 2:4.
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 2:9-11: Pro 2:9-11 With the אז repeated, the promises encouraging to the endeavour after wisdom take a new departure: 9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and justice, And uprightness; every way of good. 10 For wisdom will enter into thine heart, And knowledge will do good to thy soul; 11 Discretion will keep watch over thee, Understanding will keep thee.