SEV Biblia, Chapter 13:20
¶ El que anda con los sabios, sabio será; mas el que se allega a los locos, será destruido.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Proverbs 13:20
Verse 20. He that walketh with wise men shall be wise ] To walk with a person implies love and attachment; and it is impossible not to imitate those we love. So we say, "Show me his company, and I'll tell you the man." Let me know the company he keeps, and I shall easily guess his moral character.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 20. 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”, ( 1 Corinthians 15:33), and so bring to ruin and destruction.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 20 - Multitudes are brought to ruin by bad company. And all that make themselves wicked will be destroyed.
Original Hebrew
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