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Verse Proverbs 23:28. _INCREASETH THE TRANSGRESSORS AMONG MEN._] More
iniquity springs from this one source of evil, than from any other
cause in the whole system of sin. _Women_ and _strong drink_ ca...
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Another continuous exhortation rather than a collection of maxims.
Proverbs 23:16
The teacher rejoices when the disciple’s heart Proverbs 23:15
receives wisdom, and yet more when his lips can utter...
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CHAPTER 23 INSTRUCTIONS CONTINUED
The opening proverbs of this chapter treat of self-restraint in
curbing the appetite and give manners to be observed in the presence
of a superior. Warnings against r...
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It is possible to take these three verses together as a warning
against treachery lurking in the dainties of a royal table. In that
case, in Proverbs 23:1 we should render consider diligently what
(_m...
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TRANSGRESSORS. traitors....
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_as_for _a prey_ Better, with A.V. marg., R.V. text, AS A ROBBER.
_transgressors_ Better, TREACHEROUS. Those whom she seduces become in
their turn seducers and untrustworthy in similar relations.
_T...
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TEXT Proverbs 23:24-35
24.
The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice;
And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him.
25.
Let thy father and thy mother be glad,
And let her that...
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1. RV 'him that is before thee.' Do not excite his contempt....
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The miserable duplicities and 'treacheries' (RV) of an unholy passion....
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 23
V1 When a ruler invites you for a meal, be careful!
Think, before you eat!...
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The son must be careful about sex. Some women sell sex. They are like
a deep hole that a hunter uses as a trap for animals. And some married
women tempt other men. They are like a narrow well that a m...
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INCREASETH THE TRANSGRESSORS (faithless) AMONG MEN. — This vice
being the fruitful source of faithlessness both towards man and God....
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אַף ־הִ֭יא כְּ חֶ֣תֶף תֶּֽאֱרֹ֑ב וּ֝
בֹוגְדִ֗
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CHAPTER 24
EDUCATION: THE PARENT'S THOUGHT OF THE CHILD
"Train up a child according to his way, and even when he is old he
will not depart from it."- Proverbs 22:6
"Withhold not correction from the...
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At the seventeenth verse of the previous chapter the section of the
Book begins in which the method is slightly changed. While the
teaching is still proverbial, it takes the form of longer discourses...
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She also lieth in wait as [for] a prey, (m) and increaseth the
transgressors among men.
(m) She seduces many and causes them to offend God....
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_Him. Protestants, "increaseth the transgressors among men," (Haydock)
and like a harpy, kills all whom she can entrap._...
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Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. Be
not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard
and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall...
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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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SHE ALSO LIETH IN WAIT AS [FOR] A PREY,.... At the door of her house,
in the corner of the streets, in the dark of the night; laying her
snares, and spreading her nets, for unwary persons, to make a p...
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She also lieth in wait as [for] a prey, and increaseth the
transgressors among men.
Ver. 28. _She also lieth in wait._] Terence calls harlots _Cruces
crumenimulgas, sordida poscinummia, &c., _ base b...
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_For a whore is a deep ditch_ In which a man is in evident danger of
perdition, and out of which it is exceeding difficult to escape. See
the note on Proverbs 22:14. _She lieth in wait_, &c. Watching...
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V. 28. SHE ALSO LIETH IN WAIT AS FOR A PREY, like a highwayman, AND
INCREASETH THE TRANSGRESSORS AMONG MEN, multiplying the number of
those who yield to her seductive arts and commit the sin of
fornic...
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AS FOR A PREY:
Or, as a robber...
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LIETH IN WAIT AS FOR A PREY; watching all opportunities of insnaring
young men to their destruction. INCREASETH THE TRANSGRESSORS AMONG
MEN; she is the cause of innumerable sins against God, and again...
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Proverbs 23:28 wait H693 (H8799) victim H2863 increases H3254 (H8686)
unfaithful H898 (H8802) men H120...
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CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son.
CONCLUSION: The indulgence of the appetites is a sin that easily
besets us. We should apprehend ourselves to be in danger when...
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Proverbs 23:1. _When thou sittest to eat with a ruler,_ and hast a
princely feast before thee of meats and wines, _put a knife to thy
throat, if thou be a man given to appetite._ How many have stained...
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 23:26 The phrase GIVE ME YOUR HEART should
guide parents in their task of child rearing. Their goal must be the
deepest source of the child’s thoughts, words, and actions. ob...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 23:17. LET NOT THINE HEART ENVY, etc. The verb translated
_envy_ refers to both objects in the verse, and is better translated
“_strive after_.” Miller renders it “_be aglow...
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 23:1
A hexastich closely connected with the last verse of the preceding
chapter, as if the warning was addressed to the man of skill whom his
talents had made the guest of kings....
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Now the next three verses are coupled together.
When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before
thee: And put a knife to your throat, if you be a man given to
appetite. Be not de...
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1 Corinthians 10:8; Ecclesiastes 7:26; Hosea 4:11; Jeremiah 3:2;...