Proverbs 28:26 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁶He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.

Proverbs 28:26 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 3:5
Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Job 28:28
And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
Romans 8:7
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
James 1:5
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

Topics

Conceit Confidence Egotism False Confidence Self-Righteousness Watchfulness

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 26)

Here is, 1. The character of a fool: He trusts to his own heart, to his own wisdom and counsels, his own strength and sufficiency, his own merit and righteousness, and the good opinion he has of himself; he that does so is a fool, for he trusts to that, not only which is deceitful above all things (Jer. 17:9), but which has often deceived him. This implies that it is the character of a wise man (a…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 26)

26. (Compare Pr 3:6-8). walketh wisely--that is, trusting in God (Pr 22:17-19).