Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 1. These are also proverbs of Solomon ] In my old MS. Bible, this verse concludes the preceding chapter. It seems that the remaining part of this book contains proverbs which had been collected by the order of King Hezekiah, and were added to the preceding book as a sort of supplement, having been collected from traditionary sayings of Solomon.
And as the men of Hezekiah may mean Isaiah, Shebna, and other insptred men, who lived in that time, we may consider them as of equal authority with the rest, else such men could not have united them to the sacred book. The chronological notes in the margin of this and the five following chapters denote the time when the proverbs contained in them were collected together in the reign of Hezekiah, about two hundred and seventy years after the death of Solomon.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-3 - God needs not search into any thing; nothing can be hid from him. But it is the honour of rulers to search out matters, to bring to ligh hidden works of darkness.
Original Hebrew גם1571 אלה428 משׁלי4912 שׁלמה8010 אשׁר834 העתיקו6275 אנשׁי376 חזקיה2396 מלך4428 יהודה׃3063
