Proverbs 1:32 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

Turning - Wisdom had called the simple to “turn,” and they had turned, but it was “away” from her. For “prosperity” read carelessness. Not outward prosperity, but the temper which it too often produces, the easy-going indifference to higher truths, is that which destroys.

Proverbs 1:32

32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.