Proverbs 15:25 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Of the proud; of the most mighty oppressors, who conceit themselves to be unmovably fixed. The border; either,

1. The estate, the border being oft used for the land within the borders, as Psalms 105:31,33, and elsewhere. Or,

2. The border by which lands were then bounded and distinguished, which those proud persons endeavoured to remove contrary to God's law, Deuteronomy 19:14, Deuteronomy 27:17.

Proverbs 15:25

25 The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.