Proverbs 8:33 (BSB)
Listen to instruction and be wise; do not ignore it.
From Proverbs 8. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Proverbs 8:33
- 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 8:33: Hear instruction,.... The instruction of wisdom, the Gospel of Christ; which instructs men in things relating to God the Father; as that he is the God and Father of his people, the God of all grace, the giver and sender of Christ, and all good things by him; in things respecting Christ, his person, office, grace, and righteousness; in things that appertain to the Spirit...
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 8:33-36: Pro 8:33-36 The summons 32a, and its reason 32b, are repeated in these verses which follow: 33 “Hear instruction, and be wise, And withdraw not. 34 Blessed is the man who hears me, Watching daily at my gates, Waiting at the posts of my doors!