Proverbs 15:21

Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom,.... Or "that wants a heart" (q), a wise and understanding one; by "folly" is meant sin, for all sin is folly; and that is very pleasing and joyous to a…

i. e., The empty-hearted, rejoicing in folly, goes the wrong way; the man of understanding, rejoicing in wisdom, goes the right way.

Note, 1. It is the character of a wicked man that he takes pleasure in sin; he has an appetite to the bait, and swallows it greedily, and has no dread of the hook, nor feels from it when he has…

wisdom Lit. heart, as in Pro 11:12.

walketh uprightly Lit. maketh straight his going. The parallelism consists in the contrast between the reckless "joy" with which the heartless fool revels in his…