Proverbs 8:36
But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
In Context
35For he who finds me finds life, and shall obtain favor of LORD.
Cross References
Proverbs 1:31Therefore they shall eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Proverbs 5:11and thou mourn at thy latter end when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
Proverbs 12:1He who loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is brutish.
Proverbs 20:2The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger sins [against] his own life.
Ezekiel 18:31Cast away from you all your transgressions, by which ye have transgressed, and make you a new heart and a new spirit. For why will ye die, O house of Israel?
John 3:19And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their deeds were evil.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 8:33-36
Wisdom's Exhortation. 32 Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways. 33 Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not. 34 Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. 35 For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the Lord . 36 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death. We have here the application of Wisdom's discourse; the design and tendency of it is to… Read the whole commentary →