Proverbs 8:13 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. ”

Proverbs 8:13 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

The fear of the LORD [is] to hate (e) evil: pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the perverse mouth, do I hate. (e) So that he who does not hate evil, does not fear God.
Proverbs 8:13 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 8. Wisdom Speaks in her own Person. This chapter forms at once the nucleus and the climax of this section of the book. The series of addresses on practical wisdom is fitly closed by a prof...
Proverbs 8:13 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

The fear, &c. See note on Proverbs 1:7 . the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4. hate. This is far beyond Zophar's mistaken definition of it in Job 28:28 . A man may "depart" from evil from...
Proverbs 8:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. The fear of the Lord is to hate evil - As it is impossible to hate evil without lovin...
Proverbs 8:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. The fear of the Lord (is) to hate evil. Here Wisdom gives a sample of her bless...
Proverbs 8:13 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Wisdom's Cry Wisdom now reappears as a preacher, holding forth in all the places where men most do congregate. After expounding in varied ways the excellence of the gifts which she can bestow, she...
Proverbs 8:13 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The fear of the Lord is to hate evil. — Because there can never be any truce between the kingdoms of light and darkness ( Matthew 6:24 ), so if we are the friend of one, we must be the enemy of the...
Proverbs 8:13 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER 9 THE FIRST-BORN OF THE CREATOR "Doth not Wisdom cry?"- Proverbs 8:1 In the last chapter a dark and revolting picture of Vice was drawn. This chapter contains a lovely and living pictu...
Proverbs 8:13 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“Better than Gold” Proverbs 8:1-21 This chapter contains a bewitching picture of Wisdom as a noble matron. Were it not for this feminine touch, we might, suppose that the Preacher had become a...
Proverbs 8:13 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The section containing the instructions of wisdom ends with two discourses, the first of which is the great call of wisdom. This takes up and deals more minutely with the call in the earlier part of...
Proverbs 8:13 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions. The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. Counsel is mi...
Proverbs 8:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The fear of the Lord [is] to hate evil ,.... All evil in general, evil thoughts, evil words, evil actions, evil company, evil worship, and evil doctrines; and by "the fear of the Lord", which shows...
Proverbs 8:13 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

The fear of the LORD [is] to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. Ver. 13. The fear of the Lord. ] Which is a high point of heavenly wisdom, Pro 1...
Proverbs 8:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The fear of the Lord Which he had before said to be the beginning of wisdom; is to hate evil It consists in a careful abstinence from all sin, and that not from carnal or prudential motives, but...
Proverbs 8:13 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

To the writer Proverbs 8:1-36 provides one of the clearest proofs that the Lord Jesus is the Son of the Father from eternity. It is certainly not the only Scripture that proves this precious and won...
Proverbs 8:13 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Advantages of Wisdom. 12 I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions. 13 The fear of...
Proverbs 8:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The fear of the Lord; which he had before noted to be the beginning of wisdom, Proverbs 1:7 . Is to hate evil; it consists in a careful abstinence from all sin, and that not from carnal or pru...
Proverbs 8:13 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

2). Wisdom Calls On The Naive And On Fools To Pay Heed To Her Words Because Her Instruction Is Both True And Valuable ( Proverbs 8:5-13 ). Wisdom's words come especially to the naive and to ‘fools...
Proverbs 8:13 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 8:12 . Dwell with or “inhabit.” Witty inventions , “skilful plans” (Stuart) , “sagacious counsels” (Zöckler) Proverbs 8:14 . Sound wisdom , the same word as in...
Proverbs 8:13 - Scofield Reference Notes

fear ( See Scofield) - ( Psalms 19:9 ).
Proverbs 8:13 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 8:1 . Doth not Wisdom cry? This woman is the reverse of the harlot, in the preseding chapter. She represents true religion clothed in every form of grace and glory: Christ, the Word and W...
Proverbs 8:13 - The Biblical Illustrator

The fear of the Lord to to hate evil. Hatred of evil A formal definition of the fear of the Lord. To dread the punishment of sin seems to be the main feature in that religion which, under many...
Proverbs 8:13 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Proverbs 8:1-20 14. Fourteenth admonitory discourse concerning Wisdom—her excellence, her origin, her gifts. She is contrasted with the strange woman of Proverbs 7:1-20 ; and...
Proverbs 8:13 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Of the Messiah, the Personal Wisdom. The Richness of Wisdom's Gifts.
Proverbs 8:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Peter 5:5 ; 1 Samuel 2:3 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:22 ; 2 Timothy 2:19 ; Amos 5:15 ; Proverbs 10:31 ; Proverbs 16:6 ; Proverbs 4:24 ; Proverbs 6:12 ; Proverbs 6:16-19 ; Psalms 101:3 ; Psalms...

Proverbs 8:13 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Proverbs 8:13 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 8:13 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Proverbs 8:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Proverbs 8:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 8:13 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 8:13 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Proverbs 8:13 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Proverbs 8:13 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Proverbs 8:13 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 8:13 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Proverbs 8:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Proverbs 8:13 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Proverbs 8:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 8:13 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 8:13 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Proverbs 8:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Proverbs 8:13 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 8:13 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Proverbs 8:13 - Scofield Reference Notes

Proverbs 8:13 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 8:13 - The Biblical Illustrator

Proverbs 8:13 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Proverbs 8:13 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Proverbs 8:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge