{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/jfb/pro009.htm","path":"bib/cmt/jfb/pro009.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/jfb/pro009.htm","text":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]\nhouse--(compare Pro 8:34).\nher--or, \"its\" (the house).\nseven pillars--the number seven for many, or a sufficiency (Pro 6:31).\nmingled--to enhance the flavor (Pro 23:30; Isa 5:22).\nfurnished--literally, \"set out,\" \"arranged.\"\nmaidens--servants to invite (compare Psa 68:11; Isa 40:9).\nhighest places--ridges of heights, conspicuous places.\n(Compare Pro 1:4; Pro 6:32). Wisdom not only supplies right but forbids wrong principles.\nshame--(Compare Pro 3:35).\na blot--or, \"stain on character.\" Both terms denote the evil done by others to one whose faithfulness secures a wise man's love.\nThe more a wise man learns, the more he loves wisdom.\n(Compare Pro 1:7).\nof the holy--literally, \"holies,\" persons or things, or both. This knowledge gives right perception.\n(Compare Pro 3:16-18; Pro 4:10).\nYou are mainly concerned in your own conduct.\nfoolish woman--or literally, \"woman of folly,\" specially manifested by such as are described.\nclamorous--or, \"noisy\" (Pro 7:11).\nknoweth nothing--literally, \"knoweth not what,\" that is, is right and proper.\non a seat--literally, \"throne,\" takes a prominent place, impudently and haughtily.\nto allure those who are right-minded, and who are addressed as in Pro 9:4, as\nsimple--that is, easily led (Pro 1:4) and unsettled, though willing to do right.\nThe language of a proverb, meaning that forbidden delights are sweet and pleasant, as fruits of risk and danger.\n(Compare Pro 2:18-19; Pro 7:27).","title":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments: Proverbs: Proverbs Chapter 9","type":"page"}