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Verse Proverbs 18:11. _THE RICH MAN'S WEALTH_] See Proverbs 10:15....
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What the name of the Lord is to the righteous Proverbs 18:10, that
wealth is to the rich. He flees to it for refuge as to a strong city;
but it is so only “in his own conceit” or imagination.
HIGH - I...
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CHAPTER 18 PROVERBS OF PERSONAL INSTRUCTION
There is first a warning against separation produced by desire, that
is for gratification and pleasure, and not for a righteous purpose.
Such a one becomes...
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PROVERBS 18:1. MT yields no satisfactory sense. The LXX reads The man
who wishes to separate from his friends seeks pretexts, but is always
liable to reproach. Frankenberg renders the alienated friend...
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AS. [it is]as.
CONCEIT. imagination. See note on Proverbs 25:11....
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_his strong city_ There is a sense in which it is really so (Proverbs
10:15); but a sense also in which, in designed contrast to the "strong
tower" of the preceding verse, it is only so in his own opi...
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CHAPTER 18
TEXT Proverbs 18:1-12
1.
He that separateth himself seeketh his own desire,
And rageth against all sound wisdom.
2.
A fool hath no delight in understanding,
But only that his heart ma...
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1. Lit. 'One who separates himself seeks desire, quarrels with all
wisdom.' This would mean that a solitary recluse follows his own
wishes and opposes everything reasonable. But LXX suggests, 'The
ali...
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These two verses are about different castles. A castle was a strong
building, which would be safe, even during a war.
A good man trusts in God. He can relax, because God will keep him
safe.
A rich m...
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 18
V1 An unfriendly man is selfish.
He is not sensible.
V2 A foo
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הֹ֣ון עָ֭שִׁיר קִרְיַ֣ת עֻזֹּ֑ו וּ כְ
חֹומָ֥ה
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CHAPTER 19
THE EVIL OF ISOLATION
"He that separates himself follows after his own desire, but against
all sound wisdom he shows his teeth."- Proverbs 18:1
FROM the value of friendship there is a nat...
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Verse Proverbs 18:1. The protest of this proverb is against the
self-satisfaction which makes a man separate himself from the thoughts
and opinions of others. Such a one finally "rages against," or
"q...
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The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his
own conceit. Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and
before honour is humility. He that answereth a matter before he
he...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31.
In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to
avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be
followe...
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THE RICH MAN'S WEALTH [IS] HIS STRONG CITY,.... In which he dwells,
over which he presides; in which he places his trust and confidence,
and thinks himself safe from every enemy and from all trouble:...
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The rich man's wealth [is] his strong city, and as an high wall in his
own conceit.
Ver. 11. The rich man's wealth is his strong city.] It is hard to
have wealth, and not to trust to it. Matthew 19:2...
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_The name of the Lord_ That is, the Lord, as he hath revealed himself
in his works, and especially in his word, by his promises, and the
declarations of his infinite perfections, and of his good-will...
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V. 11. THE RICH MAN'S WEALTH IS HIS STRONG CITY AND AS AN HIGH WALL IN
HIS OWN CONCEIT, his own foolish imagination; for it is not a tower
like the name of the Lord....
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He trusts to his wealth, as that which will either enable him to
resist his enemy, or at least purchase his favour....
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Proverbs 18:11 mans H6223 wealth H1952 strong H5797 city H7151 high
H7682 (H8737) wall H2346 esteem H4906...
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THE FOOL DESTROYS OTHERS AND IS THEREFORE HIMSELF DESTROYED, BUT THE
RIGHTEOUS ARE KEPT SAFE (PROVERBS 18:8).
In this subsection there is an emphasis on the way in which a fool
destroys a community. H...
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Proverbs 18:10
We have here the "strong tower" and the "strong city;" the man lifted
up above danger on the battlements of the one, and the man fancying
himself to be high above it (and only fancying...
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CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: The only zone of safety is the name of the Lord which is
the strong tower in which one may find rest and be fortified again...
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Proverbs 18:1. _Through desire a man having separated himself, seeketh
and intermeddleth with all wisdom._ יתגלע _yithgalâ;_ this word
occurs but thrice, and only in the book of Proverbs; viz. here, a...
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 18:9 Verses Proverbs 18:10 and Proverbs
18:11 describe two types of security:
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 18:10. SAFE, or, _lifted high_.
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 18:10_
TWO CITADELS
I. THE CITADEL OF HIM WHO TRUSTS IN THE LORD. “_The name of the
Lord_.” God has revealed H...
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 18:1
This is a difficult verse, and has obtained various interpretations.
The Authorized Version gives, THROUGH DESIRE A MAN, HAVING SEPARATED
HIMSELF, SEEKETH AND INTERMEDDLETH W...
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Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeks and
intermeddleth with all wisdom. A fool has no delight in understanding,
but that his heart may discover itself. When the wicked comes, then
com...
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Deuteronomy 32:31; Ecclesiastes 7:12; Job 31:24; Job 31:25; Luke 1