Proverbs 3:22 (BSB)
They will be life to your soul and adornment to your neck.
From Proverbs 3. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Proverbs 3:22
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 3:21-26: Solomon, having pronounced those happy who not only lay hold on wisdom, but retain her, here exhorts us therefore to retain her, assuring us that we ourselves shall have the comfort of doing so. I. The exhortation is, to have religion's rules always in view and always at heart, Pro 3:21. 1.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 3:22: So shall they be life unto thy soul,.... Give it a better life than it naturally has, though immortal; Christ is both the spiritual and eternal life of the souls of those that look unto him by faith; and his Gospel, and the doctrines of it, are the means of reviving drooping saints, and of quickening them to the discharge of their duty; wherefore both...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 3:22: assign reasons in their value for happiness and ornament, guidance and support in dangers, both when waking and sleeping.
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 3:21-22: Pro 3:21-22 From this eminence, in which the work of creation presents wisdom, exhortations are now deduced, since the writer always expresses himself only with an ethical intention regarding the nature of wisdom: 21 My son, may they not depart from thine eyes - Preserve thoughtfulness and consideration, 22 And they will be life to thy soul And grace to thy neck.