John Gill's Exposition on Proverbs 13:20

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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He that walketh with wise [men] shall be wise, etc.] 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”f380; ruined and destroyed, “evil communications corrupt good manners”, (<461533>1 Corinthians 15:33), and so bring to ruin and destruction.

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