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CHAPTER 24 INSTRUCTIONS CONTINUED
In the final instructions of this chapter we find first a description
of the evil men. Their heart studieth destruction; their lips talk
mischief. This theme is repea...
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PROVERBS 24:7 A. Lit. Wisdom is corals to the fool. RV involves a
change m the text, which gives perhaps the best sense that can be made
of an obviously corrupt stanza.
Proverbs 24:9. thought: the wor...
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MISCHIEF. Hebrew. _'amal._ App-44. Not the same word as in Proverbs
24:8 and Proverbs 24:16....
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_destruction_ Better, VIOLENCE, or, OPPRESSION. Comp. Proverbs 21:7,
where the same Heb. word is rendered _robbery_, A.V., and _violence_,
R.V.
These Proverbs 24:1-2, as compared with Prove
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CHAPTER 24
TEXT Proverbs 24:1-12
1.
Be not thou envious against evil men;
Neither desire to be with them:
2.
For their heart studieth oppression,
And their lips talk of mischief.
3.
Through wi...
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5. Read, 'A wise man is better than a warrior, and a man of knowledge
than a man of strength.'...
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 24
V1 Do not be jealous of evil men.
Do not try to meet them.
V2
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You should not join a group of evil people. Their secret plans are
cruel. And they plot trouble with their conversations. You should not
be jealous of these people. You do not want to suffer their
pun...
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כִּי ־שֹׁ֖ד יֶהְגֶּ֣ה לִבָּ֑ם וְ֝
עָמָ֗ל שִׂפ
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CHAPTER 25
FORGIVING
"Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause, and deceive not
with thy lips. Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me; I
will render to the man according to hi...
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Warnings are uttered against envy, against the formation of evil
companionships, against excess in passion, against all false
exhilaration; and perperpetual attention to wisdom and earnest
endeavor to...
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Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.
For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it...
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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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FOR THEIR HEART STUDIETH DESTRUCTION,.... To others; to good men, that
separate from them, and reprove them, or are in their way; or any ways
hinder them in the prosecution of their wicked designs; as...
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For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
Ver. 2. _For their heart studieth destruction._] Great students they
are; wittily wicked; but they consult shame and confusion t...
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_Be not thou envious_, &c. The proneness of good men, especially while
they are weak, and only in the beginnings of their course of piety and
virtue, to be dejected at the prosperity of the ungodly, a...
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V. 2. FOR THEIR HEART STUDIETH DESTRUCTION, they are constantly
meditating upon oppression and violence, AND THEIR LIPS TALK OF
MISCHIEF, their expressed purpose being to harm others....
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STUDIETH DESTRUCTION; how they may oppress and destroy others, which
yet at last falls upon their own heads....
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Proverbs 24:2 heart H3820 devises H1897 (H8799) violence H7701 lips
H8193 talk H1696 (H8762) troublemaking H5999
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CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son.
CONCLUSION: If wicked people prosper, we should not be inclined to do
as they do, nor complain of what God does in His provide...
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Proverbs 24:1. _Be not envious against evil men._ Similar thoughts
occur in Psalms 37:1; Psalms 73; Proverbs 17:1. Why should we envy the
wicked? We are all g
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 24:1 The young man’s friends can be the
greatest threat to his moral life (see Proverbs 23:17)....
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 24:5. A MAN OF KNOWLEDGE, rather “_a man of
understanding_,” INCREASETH STRENGTH, literally “_maketh power
strong_.” Miller translates the entire verse thus:—“_A strong
man,...
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 24:1
We return here to the more usual form, the tetrastich. BE NOT THOU
ENVIOUS AGAINST EVIL MEN (see on Proverbs 23:17, where a similar
warning is given, and comp....
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Again, he continues in twenty-four in putting them together in
couplets or in phrases.
Be not envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. For
their heart studies destruction, and their...
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1 Samuel 23:9; Acts 13:10; Esther 3:6; Esther 3:7; Isaiah 59:4;...
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Destruction — How they may oppress and destroy others....