--- title: "Proverbs 1 - Study King James Bible with trapps complete commentary" description: "Read Proverbs 1 with trapps complete 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/trapps-complete-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 ** [Pro 1:1](/kjv/pro/1/1) *The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;* Ver. 1. **The Proverbs.** ] Or, Master sentences; maxims, axioms, speeches of special precellence and predominance; received rules *a* that must overrule matters, and mightily prevail in the minds of men. The principal, no doubt, they are of those three thousand mentioned in [1 Kings 4:32](/kjv/1-kings/4/32) , and far beyond those golden sayings *b* of Phocylides (profanely preferred before those holy parables by that apostate Julian, *ausu nefario* ), as having in them more sentences than words, *c* and being so far above all human praise for weight and worth, that, as Salust writes of Carthage, I had better speak nothing of them than too little, since too much is too little. **** **Of Solomon.** ] Who better, a deal, deserves to be styled "Master of the sentences" than Peter Lombard; and to be esteemed πανσοφος και παντα ανθρωπεια επισταμενος , as one *d* saith of Homer; or as another saith of Jerome, that he was a man, *quem nullum scibile latuit,* that knew all that was knowable by a man. **** **King of Israel.** ] King in Jerusalem,[Ecc 1:1](/kjv/-ecc/1/1) which was now the Israel of Israel, as Athens was, in its flourish, said to be the Greece of Greece; *e* yea, the soul, and sun, and eye of Greece; *f* yea, the common school of all mankind. *g* For King Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth both in riches and in wisdom. "And all the world sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put into his heart."[1Ki 10:24](/kjv/-1ki/10/24) For "the more wise the preacher was, the more he taught the people knowledge, and caused them to hear, and searched forth many parables"; [Ecclesiastes 12:9](/kjv/ecclesiastes/12/9) *, marg.* even "words of delight." [Proverbs 1:10](/kjv/proverbs/1/10) *, marg.* *See Trapp in "*[Pro 1:10](/kjv/-pro/1/10) *"* *a* משׁל משׁלי , *Dominari, quae vitae dominae et moderatrices esse debent.* *b* Eπη χρυσεα . *c* *De Euripide Cicero pronunciavit plures esse in eo sententias quam verba.* *d* Xenophon. *e* Eλλας ελλαδος . - Euripid. *f* φυχη και ηλιος, και οφθαλμος Eλλαδος . - Demost. *g* Kοινον παιδευτηριον παντων ανθρωπων . - Thucyd. and Diodor. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com","name":"Real Bible Believers","description":"RBB","publisher":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/search?q={search_term_string}","query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/proverbs/1#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg","contentUrl":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg","width":672,"height":448,"caption":"Real Bible Believers"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/proverbs/1#webpage","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/proverbs/1","name":"Proverbs 1 - Study King James Bible with trapps complete commentary","isPartOf":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/proverbs/1#primaryimage"},"author":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"description":"Read Proverbs 1 with trapps complete 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","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/proverbs/1#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/proverbs/1"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/proverbs/1#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study","name":"Study Bible"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary","name":"trapps complete commentary"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/proverbs","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/proverbs","name":"Proverbs"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/proverbs/1","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/proverbs/1","name":"1"}}]},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#personlogo","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/android-chrome-512x512.png","contentUrl":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/android-chrome-512x512.png","width":512,"height":512},"logo":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#personlogo"},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/RBiblebeliever","https://www.facebook.com/RBibleBelievers"]}]} ```