Proverbs 22:20 (BSB)

Have I not written for you thirty sayings about counsel and knowledge,

From Proverbs 22. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 22:20

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 22:17-21: Solomon here changes his style and manner of speaking. Hitherto, for the most part, since the beginning of ch. 10, he had laid down doctrinal truths, and but now and then dropped a word of exhortation, leaving us to make the application as we went along; but here, to the end of ch.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 22:20: Have not I written to thee excellent things,.... In the Scriptures. Some render it, "three things" (c); and think that Solomon refers to the three divisions of the Scriptures among the Jews, the law, the prophets, and holy writings; so Jarchi; but some of those writings then were not: or to the three books wrote by him; the Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs.
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 22:20: excellent things--or probably of former times. counsels and knowledge--both advice and instruction.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 22:20: Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge, (n) That is, various times.