8The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: …
Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8)Here is, 1. The honour and happiness of the obedient. They will receive commandments ; they will take it as a privilege, and really an ease to them, to be under government, which saves them the labour of deliberating and choosing for themselves; and they will take it as a favour to be told their duty and admonished concerning it. And this is their wisdom; those are wise in heart who are tractable,…
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