Proverbs 8:36
And whoever is missing me, is wronging his soul, || All hating me have loved death!”
Literal Standard 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 whoever is finding me, has found life, || And brings out goodwill from YHWH.
Cross References
Proverbs 1:31And they eat of the fruit of their way, || And they are filled from their own counsels.
Proverbs 5:11And you have howled in your latter end, || In the consumption of your flesh and your food,
Proverbs 12:1Whoever is loving instruction, is loving knowledge, || And whoever is hating reproof [is] brutish.
Proverbs 20:2The fear of a king [is] a growl as of a young lion, || He who is causing him to be angry is wronging his soul.
Ezekiel 18:31Cast away all your transgressions from over you, || By which you have transgressed, || And make a new heart and a new spirit for yourselves, || And why do you die, || O house of Israel?
John 3:19And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works 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 →