Unusual Insight-Proverbs 12:8
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Introduction
Introduction
When Jesus had finished these words, the crowds were amazed at His teaching;
for He was teaching them as one having authority, and not as their scribes.
He came to His hometown and began teaching them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, “Where did this man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers?
When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at His teaching.
And He came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and He was teaching them on the Sabbath;
and they were amazed at His teaching, for His message was with authority.
Luke 4:31-32
The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, “Why did you not bring Him?”
The officers answered, “Never has a man spoken the way this man speaks.”
Now as they observed the confidence of Peter and John and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were amazed, and began to recognize them as having been with Jesus.
The Jews then were astonished, saying, “How has this man become learned, having never been educated?”
v.8
v.8
A man will be praised according to his insight,
But one of perverse mind will be despised.
The sense is that of a man who has the ability to wade through the unusual events in life.
That is one of the stated goals of Proverbs:
To give prudence to the naive,
To the youth knowledge and discretion,
So you will find favor and good repute
In the sight of God and man.
Understanding is a fountain of life to one who has it,
But the discipline of fools is folly.
ICC Proverbs
A man is commended according to his intelligence, A wrongheaded man is despised.
Antithetic, ternary (or, binary-ternary). Intelligence is capacity of sound thought and judgment; so in 3:4 (on which see note) 13:15; 16:22; 19:11; 23:9; Job 17:4; 1 Sam. 25:3, and cf. the corresponding adj. (Partcp.) in 10:5, 19; 14:35, etc. The opposite quality is distortion, wrongness of intellect (lit. of heart), incapacity to think soundly. The contrast intended is not of learning and ignorance, or of philosophical depth and shallowness, but of ability and inability to think justly in common matters of life. The proverb is a tribute to intellectual clearness, without special reference to, but doubtless with inclusion of, the moral and religious sides of life. The English term perverse (RV.) has an element of wilfulness which is not contained in the Hebrew; the sense of the latter is better expressed by our wrongheaded, taken as = “incapable of just, discriminating thought, lacking in judgment,” Lat. excors.
Type: Individual Proverb (12:8) 12:8 Respect is gained by wisdom. The term here implies integrity and capacity to deal with problems in life.
Duane A. Garrett, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, vol. 14, The New American Commentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1993), 130.
“A man of perverse mind...” = dense, wrongheaded.
The English term perverse (RV.) has an element of wilfulness which is not contained in the Hebrew; the sense of the latter is better expressed by our wrongheaded, taken as = “incapable of just, discriminating thought, lacking in judgment,” Lat. excors.
Crawford Howell Toy, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Proverbs, International Critical Commentary (New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1899), 245.