Proverbs 10:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

As sport; he doth it with ease and delight, and without any shame, or remorse, or fear. To do mischief or, as others, to work wickedness; yea, great and premeditated wickedness, as the Hebrew word properly signifies. Hath wisdom; whereby he is kept from committing wickedness, and especially from sporting himself with it. But this clause is by divers learned interpreters rendered thus, and or so is wisdom to a man of understanding, it is a sport or pleasure to him to practise wisdom or piety; which translation makes the opposition more evident.

Proverbs 10:23

23 It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.