Proverbs 1:31
in Proverbs 1So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
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ASV
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own devices.
KJV
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
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This verse in Proverbs 1
Commentary
9 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Others think that wisdom, as the divine attribute specially employed in acts of counsel and admonition, is here personified, and represents God. In either case the address is a most solemn and divine admonition, whose matter and spirit are eminently evangelical and impressive (see on Pr 8:1).
This site's exposition
Then they will call on me, but I will not answer
on Proverbs 1:28-33
“Then they will call on me, but I will not answer” describes a door that does not stay open forever. The line “they will eat the fruit of their own way” states the chapter's logic, consequence as a harvest of their own devices.
This site's exposition
be filled with their own devices
Filled with their own devices pictures a meal eaten until the eater can hold no more. Proverbs 14:14 returns to the image, the backslider having his fill of his own ways. Paul states the same law of harvest at Galatians 6:7.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church1 voice
Therefore they will eat the fruit of their way. Their way, he says, of which he had spoken above: For their feet run to evil. Because, he says, they did not want to enter my ways that they might live, they will receive the reward …
The Puritans and the Awakening4 voices
1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; 2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; 3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
quarantine:scripture (2026-07-29) — verbatim-scripture
6 ), and therefore she goes on to tell them what will be in the end hereof. (1.) The crime is recited and it is highly provoking. See what it is for which judgment will be given against impenitent sinners in the great day, and you will say they deserve it, and the Lord is righteous in it.
quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — leading-citation-number+unbalanced-parens
), according to the proverb, Let men drink as they brew; they shall eat the fruit of their own way; their wages shall be according to their work, and, as was their choice, so shall their doom be, Gal. vi. Note, First, There is a natural tendency in sin to destruction, Jam. i. Sinners are certainly miserable if they do but eat the fruit of their own way.
quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — leading-punctuation+unbalanced-parens
In vain - The fowler who spreads, his net in the sight of the bird looseth his labour. But these, are more foolish than the silly birds, and though they are not ignorant of the mischief which these evil courses will bring upon themselves, yet they will not take warning. Their own blood - The destruction which they design to others, fall upon themselves.
1 more voice on this verse
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way,....
The words behind it
5 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְֽ֭יֹאכְלוּ | veyokhelu | so they may eat | H398 → | 810 times |
| מִפְּרִ֣י | miperi | from [the] fruit of | H6529 → | 119 times |
| דַרְכָּ֑ם | darkam | way their | H1870 → | 707 times |
| וּֽמִמֹּעֲצֹ֖תֵיהֶ֣ם | umimoatzoteihem | and from own schemes their | H4156 → | |
| יִשְׂבָּֽעוּ׃ | yisbau | they will be surfeited | H7646 → | 97 times |
וְֽ֭יֹאכְלוּso they may eat
veyokheluH398 →810 times
מִפְּרִ֣יfrom [the] fruit of
miperiH6529 →119 times
דַרְכָּ֑םway their
darkamH1870 →707 times
וּֽמִמֹּעֲצֹ֖תֵיהֶ֣םand from own schemes their
umimoatzoteihemH4156 →
יִשְׂבָּֽעוּ׃they will be surfeited
yisbauH7646 →97 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Job 4:8As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
it leads to
- Galatians 6:7–8
Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Proverbs 22:8
He who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
- Hosea 8:7
For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.
- Job 15:35
They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb is pregnant with deceit.”
- 2 Corinthians 9:6
Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.
- Galatians 6:7–8
Through
Proverbs 14:14The backslider in heart receives the fill of his own ways, but a good man is rewarded for his ways.
it leads to
- Galatians 6:8
The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.
- Proverbs 12:14
By fruitful speech a man is filled with good things, and the work of his hands returns to him.
- Galatians 6:8
Through
Proverbs 22:8He who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
it leads to
- Job 4:8
As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
- Job 4:8
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About Proverbs
This page draws on Bede, Commentary on Proverbs; Charles Bridges, An Exposition of the Book of Proverbs; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.