Proverbs 4 - Introduction - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

A.M. 3004. B.C. 1000.

Solomon, in this chapter, with great variety of expressions, and a powerful flood of divine eloquence, inculcates the same things upon us which he had expressed in the foregoing Chapter s. Here is,

(1,) An exhortation to the study of wisdom, enforced by various arguments, Proverbs 4:1-13.

(2,) A caution against bad company, Proverbs 4:14-19.

(3,) Directions for the attaining and keeping of wisdom, Proverbs 4:20-27.