Proverbios 14:18

18 Los simples heredarán la locura; mas los cuerdos se coronarán de sabiduría

Proverbios 14:18 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 14:18

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 ) ( Psalms 49:13 ) . 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, ( Philippians 3:8 ) ( John 17:3 ) . 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" ^F17; 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.

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FOOTNOTES:

F16 (ted wrytky) "imponent coronam sibi scientiam", Montanus; "coronant se scientia", Piscator, so Ben Melech.
F17 "Coronabunt scientiam", Baynus; "ornant scientiam", Drusius.

Proverbios 14:18 In-Context

16 El sabio teme, y se aparta del mal; mas el loco se arrebata, y confía

17 El que presto se enoja, hará locura; y el hombre malicioso será aborrecido

18 Los simples heredarán la locura; mas los cuerdos se coronarán de sabiduría

19 Los malos se inclinarán delante de los buenos, y los impíos a las puertas del justo

20 El pobre es odioso aun a su amigo; pero muchos son los que aman al rico