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Amsal 18:2
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Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
fool: Proverbs 1:7, Proverbs 1:22, Proverbs 17:16, Psalms 1:1, Psalms 1:2, Matthew 8:34, 1 Corinthians 8:1
but: Numbers 24:15, Numbers 24:16, 1 Corinthians 14:12, Philippians 1:15, 2 Peter 2:15-19
Reciprocal: Psalms 90:12 - that Psalms 111:2 - that have Proverbs 2:10 - General Proverbs 8:9 - General Proverbs 14:6 - scorner Ecclesiastes 10:3 - and he Matthew 13:19 - and understandeth John 7:4 - there Romans 1:31 - Without understanding
Cross-References
And sayde: Lorde, yf I haue nowe founde fauour in thy sight, passe not away I praye thee from thy seruaunt.
And Abraham went apace into the tent vnto Sara, & sayde: Make redy at once three peckes of fine meale, kneade [it] and make cakes vpon the hearth.
And Abraham runnyng vnto his beastes, fet a calfe tender and good, and gaue it vnto a young man, and he hasted to make it redy at once.
Abraham and Sara were both olde, and well stryken in age: and it ceassed to be with Sara after the maner as it is with women.
And the men rysyng vp from thence, loked toward Sodome: and Abraham went with them to bryng them on the way.
And there came two angels to Sodome at euen, and Lot sate at the gate of Sodome: and Lot seing [them] rose vp to meete them, and he bowed hym selfe with his face towarde the grounde.
Abraham stoode vp and bowed hym selfe before the people of the lande, that is, the chyldren of Heth.
And Iacob was left hym selfe alone: and there wrasteled a man with hym, vnto the breakyng of the day.
When Ioseph came home, they brought the present into the house to hym, whiche was in their handes, and bowed them selues to the grounde before him.
They aunswered: Thy seruaunt our father is in good health, & is yet alyue. And they bowing them selues, made theyr obeysaunce.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
A fool hath no delight in understanding,.... In natural understanding, and in the improvement of his mind in it; he delights not in books, nor in the conversation of men of learning and sense: or in spiritual understanding, in the understanding of spiritual things; these are foolishness to a natural man; nor does he delight in reading the Scriptures, nor in hearing the word, and attendance on it in the house of God, but is weary of such exercises;
but that his heart may discover itself; and the folly that is in it: such men only desire to have some knowledge and understanding, to make a show of it, that they may be thought to be wise, and to be capable of talking of things as if they understood them, when it is only to the exposing of themselves and their ignorance; some persons attain to no more learning and knowledge than just to be capable to show that they are fools. Or, "but in the discovery of his heart" k; he delights in discovering that; not the wisdom, but the folly that is in it.
k כי אם בהתגלות לבו "sed in patefacere cor ejus", Vatablus; "sed in detectione cordis sui", Piscator; "sed sane ut enudet cor suum", Schultens.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Another form of egotism. In “understanding,” i. e., self-knowledge, the “fool” finds no pleasure; but self-assertion, talking about himself and his own opinions, is his highest joy.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 18:2. But that his heart may discover itself. — It is a fact that most vain and foolish people are never satisfied in company, but in showing their own nonsense and emptiness. But this verse may be understood as confirming the view already given of the preceding, and may be translated thus: "But a fool doth not delight in understanding, though it should even manifest itself:" so I understand כי אם בהתגלות ki im behithgalloth. The separated person seeks understanding in every hidden thing, and feels his toil well repaid when he finds it, even after the most painful and expensive search: the other regards it not, though its secret springs should be laid open to him without toil or expense.
