Proverbs - 1:13



13 We'll find all valuable wealth. We'll fill our houses with spoil.

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Explanation and meaning of Proverbs 1:13.

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We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoils.
Every precious substance we find, We fill our houses with spoil,
Goods of great price will be ours, our houses will be full of wealth;
We will discover every precious substance. We will fill our houses with spoils.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

The second form of temptation (see Proverbs 1:10 note) appeals to the main attraction of the robber-life, its wild communism, the sense of equal hazards and equal hopes.

We shall find all precious substance,.... Among one or another we meet with; gold and silver and precious stones, everything that is valuable; not considering that hereby they were in danger of losing the more precious substance, their immortal souls; and the most precious substance of all, the enjoyment of God, and happiness with him to all eternity, which is the "more enduring substance": the things of this world, properly speaking, are not substance, though wicked men so judge them; they are things that are not; nor are they "precious", in comparison of spiritual and heavenly things; but they are what carnal men set a high price and value upon, and risk the loss of their name, lives, and souls for;
we shall fill our houses with spoil; Aben Ezra interprets this of garments; but it may not only design the garments taken from the persons robbed and killed; but also their money, commodities, and goods they were travelling with, which in time would be so large as to fill everyone of their houses; covetousness lies at the bottom of all this wickedness; the love of money is the root of all evil.

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