Proverbs 2:6 (BSB)

For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

From Proverbs 2. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 2:6

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 2:1-9: Job had asked, long before this, Where shall wisdom be found? Whence cometh wisdom? (Job 28:12, Job 28:20) and he had given this general answer (v. 23), God knoweth the place of it; but Solomon here goes further, and tells us both where we may find it and how we may get it. We are here told, I. What means we must use that we may obtain wisdom. 1.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 2:6: For the Lord giveth wisdom,.... Natural wisdom in all its branches, with all its improvements, and in its utmost latitude and perfection; and spiritual wisdom, which lies in the knowledge of a man's self, his own folly, impurity, impotence, and misery; being wise unto salvation; in the knowledge of Christ, as the only way of salvation, and of God in Christ; in partaking of the...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 2:6: For--God is ready (Jam 1:5; Jam 4:8). out of his mouth--by revelation from Him.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 2:3-8: Pro 2:3-8 Instead of כּי אם there is an old אל תקרי (read not so, but thus), כי אם (if thou callest understanding mother), which supposes the phrase כי אם (lxx) as traditional. If אם were intended (according to which the Targ. in the Bibl. rabbinica, but not in Norzi’s text, translates), then 3b would correspond; vid., Pro 7:4, cf. Job 17:14.