Proverbs 9:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Give instruction: in the Hebrew it is only give; for as receiving is put for learning, Proverbs 1:3, so giving is put for teaching, both in Scripture and in other authors; of which see my Latin Synopsis. A just man; called a wise man in the former branch, to intimate that good men are the only wise men.

Proverbs 9:9

9 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.