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Proverbs 29:18

Proverbs 29:18
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Where there is no vision, the people perish,.... That is, "no prophecy", as the Vulgate Latin version renders it; and which is often the sense of the word, as the vision of Isaiah is the prophecy of…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Vision - The word commonly used of the revelation of God’s will made to prophets. Compare Isa 1:1; Nah 1:1. When prophetic vision fails, obedience to the Law is the best or only substitute for it,…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

See here, I. The misery of the people that want a settled ministry: Where there is no vision, no prophet to expound the law, no priest or Levite to teach the good knowledge of the Lord, no means of…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

vision … law "The vision is the actual contact between God and the human spirit, which is the necessary condition of any direct revelation; the law is the recorded result of such a revelation, either…