Proverbs 8:36 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

He that sinneth against me, by the neglect or contempt of or rebellion against my commands, wrongeth his own soul; is guilty of self-murder and of soul-murder. They that hate me, i.e. who reject and disobey my counsels, and live wickedly, which in God's account is a hating of him, as is here implied and elsewhere, as Exodus 20:5 Deuteronomy 7:10, Deuteronomy 32:41. Love death; not directly or intentionally, but by consequence, because they love those practices which they know will bring certain destruction upon them.

Proverbs 8:36

36 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.