Proverbs 8:35 (BSB)

For whoever finds me finds life and obtains the favor of the LORD.

From Proverbs 8. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 8:35

  • 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 8:35: For whoso findeth me findeth life,.... Of finding Christ; see Gill on Pro 3:13. Such that find Christ find "life" or "lives" (z), life spiritual and eternal; till they are found of Christ, and find him in effectual calling, they are dead; but, when called by his grace and converted, they live a life of justification and sanctification; they live a life of faith on...
  • 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!