SEV Biblia, Chapter 14:18
¶ Los simples heredarán la locura; mas los cuerdos se coronarán de sabiduría.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 18. The simple inherit folly , etc.] It is natural and hereditary to them, they are born like wild asses colts; the foolish sayings and proverbs, customs and practices, of their ancestors, though they have been demonstrated to be mere folly, yet these, their posterity, approve them; they love, like, and retain them as their patrimony, ( Job 11:12) ( Psalm 49:13). Such are the foolish traditions, customs, principles, and doctrines, of the church of Rome, handed down from father to son; and because Popery is the religion they have been bred and brought up in, though so foolish and absurd, they will not relinquish it; but the prudent are crowned with knowledge ; natural, civil, and spiritual, especially the latter; evangelical knowledge, the knowledge of Christ, and of God in Christ, and of Gospel truths; they are honoured with an acquaintance with them; and they esteem the knowledge of these above all things else, and reckon all things else but loss and dung in comparison of them; they are as a crown unto them, and the knowledge of them is the way to the crown of life; yea, is itself life eternal, ( Philippians 3:8 John 17:3). Or, they “crown themselves with knowledge” f401 ; they labour after it, pursue it with eagerness, follow on to know the Lord, and attain to a large share of it; surround, encompass, and lay hold upon it, and gird themselves about with this girdle of truth. Or, “they crown knowledge” f402 ; do honour to that, by putting it in practice; by adding to it temperance, and every virtue, and by bringing others to it; and are an ornament to it in their lives and conversation; they adorn the doctrine of God their Saviour.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 18 - Sin is the shame of sinners; but wisdom is the honour of the wise.
Original Hebrew
נחלו 5157 פתאים 6612 אולת 200 וערומים 6175 יכתרו 3803 דעת׃ 1847
