--- title: "Proverbs 1 - Study King James Bible with the church pulpit commentary" description: "Read Proverbs 1 with the church pulpit commentary commentary. 1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; 2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; 3 To receive the ins" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/the-church-pulpit-commentary/proverbs/1" --- [ Read](/kjv/proverbs/1)[ Commentary](/study/proverbs/1)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/proverbs/1) Audio 1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; 2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; 3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;* 4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.* 5 A wise *man* will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: 6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.* 7 ¶ The fear of the LORD *is* the beginning of knowledge: *but* fools despise wisdom and instruction.* 8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: 9 For they *shall be* an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.* 10 ¶ My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. 11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: 12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: 13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: 14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: 15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: 16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. 17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.* 18 And they lay wait for their *own* blood; they lurk privily for their *own* lives. 19 So *are* the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; *which* taketh away the life of the owners thereof. 20 ¶ Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:* 21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, *saying*, 22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? 23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. 24 ¶ Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; 25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: 26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; 27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. 28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: 29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: 30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. 31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. 32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.* 33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil. [Psalms 150](/study/psalms/150) [Proverbs 2](/study/proverbs/2) ## Commentary To verse 1 *THE HEBREW WISDOM* **‘The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel.’** ** [Proverbs 1:1](/kjv/proverbs/1/1)** ** The Book of the Proverbs of Solomon is a collection, under the guidance of inspiration, of the short sayings of wise and pious men which up to that time had been more or less current, with many of course of his own intermixed. **I. We see the estimate they formed of human nature, its weakness and corruption.**—How full the Book of Proverbs is of the folly of mankind! **II. Again, what a vast collection of sayings we have in this book relating to human life, to human duty: the fear of God, charity to man, modesty, humility, forbearance, industry, self-denial!**—The Proverbs show Divine justice already partially commenced and exhibited in this life; and the Gospel carries out this view, and completes it in the world of futurity. —Canon Mozley. **Illustration** ‘The Book of Proverbs is a study for a lifetime. In it the poetical form of the proverb is conspicuous. That is, comparison and similitude are used very largely in the didactic purpose of the author or compiler—for we cannot refer all the proverbs of this book to Solomon, as Agur and Lemuel are distinctly mentioned as authors of some of them, and the “men of Hezekiah” may have mingled others with those of Solomon, making only selections from Solomon’s “three thousand.” In this book every department of life is addressed, and all the moral virtues are set forth, while the vices of men are treated with severity. So also the infelicities of life are depicted, and the wisdom which comes from the fear of the Lord is constantly contrasted with the folly to which men are prone, and which leads to ruin. The pictures given in these brief sayings would abide in the mind when mere didactic disquisitions would be forgotten. And here is one of the most valuable features of the proverb. They can be readily stored in the memory, and prove to be a supply of practical wisdom, usable at any emergency. They are not only condensed wisdom, but are therefore portable wisdom, standing one in good part when he has no time to look up authorities or to reason out a subject. 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