Proverbs 9:4 (BSB)

“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” she says to him who lacks judgment.

From Proverbs 9. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 9:4

  • Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 9:1-12: Wisdom is here introduced as a magnificent and munificent queen, very great and very generous; that Word of God is this Wisdom in which God makes known his goodwill towards men; God the Word is this Wisdom, to whom the Father has committed all judgment.
  • John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 9:4: Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither,.... Into Wisdom's house, so well built and furnished; the church of Christ, as a house of instruction; a school, where such who are "simple", weak, and foolish, may learn. Here are many instructors; saints instruct one another; ministers of the word are teachers; yea, Father, Son, and Spirit, here teach and instruct, and none teach like them.
  • Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 9:4: (Compare Pro 1:4; Pro 6:32). Wisdom not only supplies right but forbids wrong principles.
  • Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 9:4: Whoever [is] simple, let him turn in here: [as for] him that lacketh understanding, she saith to him, (e) He who knows his own ignorance, and is void of malice.