Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
Compare the Psalms 1:1 note.
(1) The "simple," literally, "open," i. e. fatally open to evil;
(2) the "scorners," mocking at all good;
(3) lastly, the "fools" in the sense of being hardened, obstinate, perverse, hating the knowledge they have rejected.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Proverbs 1:22:
Psalms 1:1
Psalms 19:7
Psalms 116:6
Psalms 116:6
Proverbs 1:4
Proverbs 7:7
Proverbs 14:15
Hosea 7:11
Amos 5:10
Romans 1:22
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