12If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself? …
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, …
The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.
He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)Wisdom is here introduced as a magnificent and munificent queen, very great and very generous; that Word of God is this Wisdom in which God makes known his goodwill towards men; God the Word is this Wisdom, to whom the Father has committed all judgment. He who, in the chapter before, showed his grandeur and glory as the Creator of the world, here shows his grace and goodness as the Redeemer of it.…
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