Proverbs 3:26 (BSB)

for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from the snare.

From Proverbs 3. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 3:26

  • 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 3:26: For the Lord shall be thy confidence,.... The object of it, in whom thou shall put thy confidence, and be safe and secure from all fear and danger: or "the Lord shall be in thy confidence" (g); shall support thee in it, and maintain that, so that thou shalt not cast it away; the word used has sometimes the notion off oily in it, and...
  • Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 3:26: The reason; such as are objects of God's favor. be thy confidence--literally, "in thy confidence," in the source of thy strength (compare Nah 3:9, for the same construction, Hebrew).
  • Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 3:23-26: Pro 3:23-26 But more than this, wisdom makes its possessor in all situations of life confident in God: 23 Then shalt thou go thy way with confidence, And thy foot shall not stumble. 24 When thou liest down, thou are not afraid, But thou layest thyself down and hast sweet sleep.