Proverbs 9:15 (BSB)
calling out to those who pass by, who make their paths straight.
From Proverbs 9. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Proverbs 9:15
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 9:13-18: We have heard what Christ has to say, to engage our affections to God and godliness, and one would think the whole world should go after him; but here we are told how industrious the tempter is to seduce unwary souls into the paths of sin, and with the most he gains his point, and Wisdom's courtship is not effectual. Now observe, I.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 9:15: To call passengers who go right on their ways. Who have been religiously educated, and trained up in the principles of true Christianity; and who walk outwardly according to the rule of the divine word, and are in a fair way for heaven and eternal happiness.
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 9:15: to allure those who are right-minded, and who are addressed as in Pro 9:4, as simple--that is, easily led (Pro 1:4) and unsettled, though willing to do right.
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 9:13-15: Pro 9:13-15 The poet now brings before us another figure, for he personifies Folly working in opposition to Wisdom, and gives her a feminine name, as the contrast to Wisdom required, and thereby to indicate that the seduction, as the 13th proverbial discourse (chap.