Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comKeil and Delitzsch Commentary - Proverbs 19:8 - 19:8
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
8 He that getteth understanding loveth his soul,
And he that values reasonableness will acquire good;
or, more closely, since this would be the translation of יִמְצָא טוֹב, Pro 16:20; Pro 17:20 : so it happens, or it comes to this, that he acquires good (= הָיָה לִמְצֹא); the inf. with ל is here, as at Pro 18:24, the expression of a fut. periphrasticum, as in the Lat. consecturus est. Regarding קֹֽנֶה־לֵּב, vid., Pro 15:32, and שֹׁמֵר תְּבוּנָה vol. i. p. 119. That the deportment of men is either care for the soul, or the contrary of that, is a thought which runs through the Book of Proverbs.