Proverbs 3:35 Commentary and Bible Study

We know that this chapter is all about salvation, because that is still the theme in the very last verse. ‘The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.’ What strong incentives these are for seeking the Lord in his summary about the conditions of obtaining wisdom. How clearly God warns and sets before human beings the only basis on which he will deal with them.Looking back over the previous verses, we have become familiar with three principal pictures, and in these early chapters of Proverbs they all are primarily to do with the way of salvation. Very shortly the Book of Proverbs shifts gear, and it goes into much deeper territories. In a sense there is no deeper territory than the doctrine of salvation, but soon it will go into other areas, and will begin to teach all the deep things of human nature, all the things which we need to know to fit us for this life, so that as believers, we shall never be fooled, never be taken in by any of the subtleties of Satan and of this present age. But here in the early chapters, it is about salvation, and a great many arguments and reasonings are brought to our minds. The principal picture that we have been seeing is the picture of the father instructing the older son as he grows up, but from now on he seems to be moving into adult life.