Proverbs 8:36 (BSB)

But he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”

From Proverbs 8. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 8:36

• 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 8:36: But he that sinneth against me,.... Or misses the mark, as the word (b) signifies; and which is observed by Aben Ezra; see Jdg 20:16. Christ is the mark and scope of the counsels of God; of the covenant of grace; of the Scriptures; of the Gospel, the truths and promises of it; of the graces of the Spirit, and of all spiritual duties and...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 8:36: sinneth . . . me--or better, "missing me," as opposed to "finding" [Pro 8:35]. love death--act as if they did (compare Pro 17:9). Next: Proverbs Chapter 9
• 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!