Proverbs 9:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

Proverbs 9:16 —

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Proverbs 9:4
Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

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Commentary

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

(vv. 13-18)

We have heard what Christ has to say, to engage our affections to God and godliness, and one would think the whole world should go after him; but here we are told how industrious the tempter is to seduce unwary souls into the paths of sin, and with the most he gains his point, and Wisdom’s courtship is not effectual. Now observe, I. Who is the tempter— a foolish woman, Folly herself, in opposition…

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

(vv. 16)

15-16. to allure those who are right-minded, and who are addressed as in Pr 9:4, as simple--that is, easily led (Pr 1:4) and unsettled, though willing to do right.