Proverbs 3:7 (BSB)

Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and turn away from evil.

From Proverbs 3. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 3:7

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 3:7-12: We have here before us three exhortations, each of them enforced with a good reason: - I. We must live in a humble and dutiful subjection to God and his government (Pro 3:7): "Fear the Lord, as your sovereign Lord and Master; be ruled in every thing by your religion and subject to the divine will." This must be, 1. A humble subjection: Be not wise in thy own eyes.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 3:7: Be not wise in thine own eyes,.... So as to act independently of God; not to trust in him, nor acknowledge him, nor seek to him for help and direction; nor ask nor take the advice of others; but, being conceited and self-sufficient, lean to thine own understanding, as being wise enough to conduct all affairs in life by thy own discretion; and in matters...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 3:7: (Compare Pro 27:2; Rom 12:16). fear . . . evil--reverentially regarding His law.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 3:5-8: Pro 3:5-8 Were “kindness and truth” (Pro 3:3) understood only in relation to men, then the following admonition would not be interposed, since it proceeds from that going before, if there the quality of kindness and truth, not only towards man, but also towards God, is commended: 5 Trust in Jahve with thy whole heart, And lean not on thine own understanding.