Proverbs 8:32 (BSB)
Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.
From Proverbs 8. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Proverbs 8:32
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 8:32-36: We have here the application of Wisdom's discourse; the design and tendency of it is to bring us all into an entire subjection to the laws of religion, to make us wise and good, not to fill our heads with speculations, or our tongues with disputes, but to rectify what is amiss in our hearts and lives. In order to this, here is, I.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 8:32: Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children,.... Children of his and his Father, with whom his delights were; predestinated to the adoption of children; children of the covenant and promise, given to him as such in the covenant; for whom he became man, suffered and died, to gather together regenerated ones, by which they appear to be the children of God: these Wisdom here...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 8:32: Such an attribute men are urged to seek.
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 8:32: Pro 8:32 After that Wisdom has shown in Pro 8:22-31 how worthy her fellowship is of being an object of desire from her mediating place between God and the world, she begins with this verse (as Pro 7:24; Pro 5:7) the hortatory (paränetische) concluding part of her discourse: “And now, ye sons, hearken unto me, And salvation to those who keep my ways!” The lxx...