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Matthew Poole and continuators on Proverbs 1:32

Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Browse this work.

Proverbs1:32

32. For the ‖ turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them .

To wit, from God and from his counsels and reproofs; so this is opposed to hearkning unto God, v. 33. Or, as it is rendred in the Margent, and by divers others, the ease or rest, the peace or tranquillity, as it seems to be explained in the next Clause.

It commonly proves the occasion of their ruine, by making them presumptuous, and secure, and worldly, and proud, and forgetful of God and of their own Eternal happiness, whereby they provoke God's Wrath and bring upon themselves swift and certain destruction. Thus he meets with the common objection against the fear of God, taken from the present impunity and prosperity of ungodly men.

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