Teks -- Proverbs 14:18 (NET)

14:18 The naive inherit folly, but the shrewd are crowned with knowledge.

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Wesley: Pro 14:18 - Inherit

They possess it as their inheritance, holding it fast, and glorying in it.

Wesley: Pro 14:18 - Knowledge

The saving knowledge of God and of their own duty.

JFB: Pro 14:18 - inherit

As a portion (compare Pro 3:35).

JFB: Pro 14:18 - are crowned

Literally, "are surrounded with it," abound in it.

TSK: Pro 14:18 - inherit // the prudent

inherit : Pro 3:35, Pro 11:29; Jer 16:19, Jer 44:17; Mat 23:29-32; 1Pe 1:18

the prudent : Pro 4:7-9, Pro 11:30; Dan 12:3; 2Ti 4:8; 1Pe 5:4

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Poole: Pro 14:18 - Inherit folly // testimonies // Are crowned with knowledge

Inherit folly they possess it as their inheritance or portion, holding it fast, improving it, delighting and glorying in it. In like manner David took God’ s

testimonies for his heritage, Psa 119:111 , where the word is the same; withal he may imply that folly is natural and hereditary to them.

Are crowned with knowledge they place their honour and happiness in a sound, and practical, and saving knowledge of God, and of their own duty, and therefore earnestly pursue after it, and heartily embrace it.

Gill: Pro 14:18 - The simple inherit folly // but the prudent are crowned with knowledge

The simple inherit folly,.... It is natural and hereditary to them, they are born like wild asses colts; the foolish sayings and proverbs, customs and practices, of their ancestors, though they have been demonstrated to be mere folly, yet these, their posterity, approve them; they love, like, and retain them as their patrimony, Job 11:12. Such are the foolish traditions, customs, principles, and doctrines, of the church of Rome, handed down from father to son; and because Popery is the religion they have been bred and brought up in, though so foolish and absurd, they will not relinquish it;

but the prudent are crowned with knowledge; natural, civil, and spiritual, especially the latter; evangelical knowledge, the knowledge of Christ, and of God in Christ, and of Gospel truths; they are honoured with an acquaintance with them; and they esteem the knowledge of these above all things else, and reckon all things else but loss and dung in comparison of them; they are as a crown unto them, and the knowledge of them is the way to the crown of life; yea, is itself life eternal, Phi 3:8. Or, they "crown themselves with knowledge" ^p; they labour after it, pursue it with eagerness, follow on to know the Lord, and attain to a large share of it; surround, encompass, and lay hold upon it, and gird themselves about with this girdle of truth. Or, "they crown knowledge" ^q; do honour to that, by putting it in practice; by adding to it temperance, and every virtue, and by bringing others to it; and are an ornament to it in their lives and conversation; they adorn the doctrine of God their Saviour.