3Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.
But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 3)Both the parts of this verse repeat what has been often said, but, on comparing them together, the sense of them will be enlarged from each other. 1. Be it observed, to the honour of a virtuous young man, that he loves wisdom , he is a philosopher (for that signifies a lover of wisdom ), for religion is the best philosophy; he avoids bad company, and especially the company of lewd women. Hereby he…
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