Hosea 14:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

Who is wise... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6. Concluding the whole book, like Psalms 107:43.

wise. Hebrew. chakam (adjective) See note on Proverbs 1:2. Compare Psalms 107:43.Jeremiah 9:12.Daniel 12:10.

prudent. [who is] understanding? Hebrew. binah. See. note on Proverbs 1:2. Here it is the passive. gifted with understanding.

right. upright. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:4). Compare Job 26:14; Job 36:23.Psalms 18:30. Psa 18:77, Psalms 18:19; Psalms 145:17; Proverbs 10:29; Daniel 4:37.

just. righteous.

transgressors. Hebrew. pasha'. App-41 ix.

fall therein. stumble in them. Compare Psalms 119:165.Proverbs 4:19; Proverbs 10:29; Proverbs 11:5; Proverbs 15:9; Micah 2:7; Nahum 3:3; 1 Corinthians 1:23 1 Corinthians 1:24. 1 Peter 2:7; 1 Peter 2:8.

Hosea 14:9

9 Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.