Proverbs 1:22 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? ”

Proverbs 1:22 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare the Psalms 1:1 note. (1) The “simple,” literally, “open,” i. e. fatally open to evil; (2) the “scorners,” mocking at all good; (3) lastly, the “fools” in the sense of being hardened...
Proverbs 1:22 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

How long, ye (s) simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? (s) Wisdom reproves three kinds of men, the foolish or simple who err out...
Proverbs 1:22 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 1-9. First Section. The Praise of Wisdom. Proverbs 1:1 . Title, either of the whole book, or of this particular collection. The word for proverb, mâ shâ l, has a wide significance...
Proverbs 1:22 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

love. The second feature. The first was ignorance in Proverbs 1:7 .
Proverbs 1:22 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 753 THE NEED OF ATTENDING TO GOD’S GRACIOUS INVITATIONS Proverbs 1:20-31 . Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: she crieth in the chief place of concourse, in...
Proverbs 1:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? Ye simple ones - פתים pethayim, ye who have been seduced and deceived. See on...
Proverbs 1:22 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? Wisdom wishes, by a...
Proverbs 1:22 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The chapter falls into three principal divisions. 1-6 . Title and Introduction explaining the object of the whole book, which is to instruct the inexperienced and add to the educated man's knowledg...
Proverbs 1:22 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

How long ... — Three classes of persons are here addressed: (1) simple ones, open to good influences, but also to evil ( Proverbs 1:4 ); (2) scorners ( lçtsîm ) , men who despised what was holy...
Proverbs 1:22 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER 2 THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge."- Proverbs 1:7 "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: And the knowledge of the Holy One is und...
Proverbs 1:22 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Call of Wisdom Proverbs 1:20-33 The word Wisdom and the description of her standing atthe head of the noisy streets- see Proverbs 1:21 , r.v., margin-remind us of our Lord, who, as the...
Proverbs 1:22 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The Book of Proverbs is one of the wisdom books of the Hebrew people. Emotionally and fundamentally, wisdom is the fear of God; intellectually, a knowledge of the manifestations of the divine wisdom;...
Proverbs 1:22 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, How long, ye simple...
Proverbs 1:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity ?.... Simple foolish things, agreeably to their character, being weak simple men, men of weak capacities and shallow understandings; and such were t...
Proverbs 1:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? Ver. 22. How long, ye simple ones. ] The fatuelli that are easily persuad...
Proverbs 1:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

How long, ye simple ones Ye ignorant, careless, and credulous persons, who are so easily deceived by sin and sinners, and cheated and deluded by the world, and the god of it, and do not understand...
Proverbs 1:22 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Wisdom's Exhortations; Doom of Obdurate Sinners. 20 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: 21...
Proverbs 1:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ye simple ones; ye ignorant, and easy, and credulous persons, who are so soon cheated by the world and the devil, and do not understand your own interest. Love simplicity; being unwilling to part...
Proverbs 1:22 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Discourse 1. Addressed To ‘My Son'. Those Who Seek To Walk In The Fear Of YHWH Will Listen To The Instruction Of Godly Authority, And Will Avoid The Enticements Of Sinners Motivated By Greed. Wisdom...
Proverbs 1:22 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 1:20 . The word wisdom is in the plural form in the Hebrew. Proverbs 1:27 . Desolation , or “tempest.” Proverbs 1:28 . To seek early denotes “earnestly.” See...
Proverbs 1:22 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Proverbs 1:20-22 The wisdom of God is a manifold wisdom. While it centres bodily in Christ, and thence issues as from its source, it is reflected and re-echoed from every object and every event. E...
Proverbs 1:22 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 1:1 . Proverbs, apothegms, parables, sentences, similitudes. The proverbs of a nation are the compressions of wisdom into short maxims, which like the coins of a country worn bare by use,...
Proverbs 1:22 - The Biblical Illustrator

Wisdom crieth without The voice of true Wisdom The Lord Jesus Christ is the true Wisdom which speaks to the sons of men. The ancients were accustomed to speak of their religion as wisdom or p...
Proverbs 1:22 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Proverbs 1:1-20 Part I. THE TITLE AND SUPERSCRIPTION . The superscription of the Proverbs, which extends from verse 1 to verse 6, furnishes us with an epitome in short...
Proverbs 1:22 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Invitation of Wisdom
Proverbs 1:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Peter 3:3 ; Exodus 10:3 ; Exodus 16:28 ; Job 34:7 ; John 3:20 ; Luke 19:42 ; Matthew 11:29 ; Matthew 11:30 ; Matthew 17:17 ; Matthew 23:37 ; Matthew 9:13 ; Numbers 14:27 ; Proverbs 14:...
Proverbs 1:22 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wisdom's Call Proverbs 1:20-33 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Where the voice of Wisdom is heard. Wisdom doth not speak alone among the wise. She doth not sound forth her voice alone in cloistered circ...
Proverbs 1:22 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Scoffers — That scoff at religion and contemn the word and faithful ministers of God.

Proverbs 1:22 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Proverbs 1:22 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Proverbs 1:22 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 1:22 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Proverbs 1:22 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Proverbs 1:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Proverbs 1:22 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 1:22 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 1:22 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Proverbs 1:22 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Proverbs 1:22 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Proverbs 1:22 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 1:22 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Proverbs 1:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Proverbs 1:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Proverbs 1:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 1:22 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Proverbs 1:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Proverbs 1:22 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 1:22 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Proverbs 1:22 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Proverbs 1:22 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 1:22 - The Biblical Illustrator

Proverbs 1:22 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Proverbs 1:22 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Proverbs 1:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 1:22 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Proverbs 1:22 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes