John Gill Commentary Proverbs 3:26

"For Jehovah will be thy confidence, And will keep thy foot from being taken." — Proverbs 3:26 (ASV)

For the Lord shall be your confidence
The object of it, in whom you shall put your confidence, and be safe and secure from all fear and danger: or "the Lord shall be in your confidence" ^F7 ; shall support you in it, and maintain that, so that you shall not cast it away; the word used has sometimes the notion of folly in it, and Jarchi, from the Jerusalem Talmud, produces a sense agreeable to it;

"the Lord shall be in things in which you are foolish;" which, how absurd it may seem to be, will admit of a good interpretation; that the Lord will be with Wisdom's followers in things which may seem foolishness to the world; as Christ, the things of Christ, and the things of the Spirit of Christ, the Gospel, and the doctrines of it, are.

The Targum is, "the Lord shall be your help," in all times of distress, difficulty, and danger; and shall keep your foot from being taken ;
in the snares of sin, temptation, and mischief; in those which Satan and the world lay for God's people; from these the Lord preserves them; wherefore happy are those that have an interest in Christ, who find and enjoy him.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F7: So Montanus, Vatablus, Michaelis.