He that walketh with wise men shall be wise,.... Who is a companion of them that fear the Lord; converses frequently with them in private about spiritual and experimental things, and walks with them in public in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord; he by those means grows wiser and wiser, gains a large stock of spiritual knowledge and experience; for this holds good both in natural and spiritual wisdom, a man of any capacity at all will improve by keeping wise company;
but a companion of fools shall be destroyed; the Vulgate Latin version renders it, "shall become like them"; be a fool as they are, and grow still more and more foolish. The Septuagint version is, "shall be known"; known by the company he keeps to be a fool also: or rather, "shall be broken" (t); ruined and destroyed, "evil communications corrupt good manners", Co1 15:33, and so bring to ruin and destruction.
(t) "conteretur", Pagninus, Montanus, Piscator, Mercerus, Gejerus; "conquassabitur", Cocceius; "fragetur", Michaelis; "infringetur", Schultens, so Ben Melech.
{"api_compact_wrapper_recipe":"native-api-generated-wrapper-v1","api_source_document_ref":"b67bb935d8d2d29959265c444b5b71a84d7209473cebd6caa76d75612f06475b","id":"sermonindex-native-api:api/c/john-gill/PRO/13.json#$/chapter/content/18","native_JSON_pointer":"$/chapter/content/18","native_content_joiner":"\n\n","native_content_part_lengths":[1063],"native_reference":{"book":{"context_sha256":"630de8a514c7ffa09268dbdfd85973b21aefacc9a3ad3fbb2d874d237eefe8aa","native_id":"PRO"},"chapter":13,"unit_number":20,"unit_type":"verse"},"native_unit_metadata":{"number":20,"type":"verse"},"native_unit_payload_sha256":"2abc1d4dd5368f1b36b546c0ef9082d2c97d7fa064885572dd118ac4bad4091d","original_identifier_basis":"existing native API member + JSON pointer","public_import_allowed":false,"reading_text_policy":"Native full content strings preserved, with explicit double-newline joins and exact part lengths; no stripping, snippet recursion, canonical verse inference or translation.","record_type":"native-commentary-unit-unreviewed","references":[],"review_status":"structural-native-unit-unreviewed","semantic_kind_reviewed":false}