A protest against vindictiveness in every form. Compare marginal reference....
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...
SECOND DIVISION, PROVERBS 24:23. This section constitutes the second division of the Sayings of the Wise, as Proverbs 24:23 a indicates. It contains a short collection of sayings varying in form and...
AS. according as. UNDERSTANDING. Hebrew "heart": put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for the discernment coming from it. See note on Proverbs 1:2....
See Proverbs 25:22 and note there....
TEXT Proverbs 24:23-34 23. These also are sayings of the wise. To have respect of persons in judgment is not good. 24. He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous, Peoples shall curse him,...
5. Read, 'A wise man is better than a warrior, and a man of knowledge than a man of strength.'...
If you speak false evidence against your neighbour, your attitudes are wrong. You should not be opposing your neighbour without a proper reason. If your neighbour is guilty, then God will punish your...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 24 V1 Do not be jealous of evil men. Do not try to meet them. V2
SAY NOT, I WILL DO SO TO HIM AS HE HATH DONE TO ME. — A wonderful anticipation this of New Testament teaching, very different from the spirit of Leviticus 24:19. Comp. Proverbs 20:22, and James 2:13,...
אַל ־תֹּאמַ֗ר כַּ אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָֽשָׂה ־לִ֭י כֵּ֤ן
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...
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...
Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I (i) will render to the man according to his work. (i) He shows what is the nature of the wicked, to revenge wrong for wrong....
_Work. Revenge is often reprobated, though the law allowed of retaliation, which the more virtuous did not insist upon._...
Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house. Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips. Say not, I wi...
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...
SAY NOT, I WILL DO SO TO HIM AS HE HATH DONE TO ME,.... He has falsely accused and reproached me, and bore a false testimony, or suborned false witnesses against me, and I will do the same to him, now...
Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work. Ver. 29. _Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me._] Nothing is more natural than reveng...
_Be not witness against thy neighbour_ Either in judgment or in private conversation; _without cause_ Rashly or falsely, without just and sufficient cause; _and deceive not with thy lips_ Neither thy...
V. 29. SAY NOT, I WILL DO SO TO HIM AS HE HATH DONE TO ME, the eagerness for revenge governing ones actions; I WILL RENDER TO THE MAN ACCORDING TO HIS WORK. Cf Matthew 5:43; Romans 12:17....
Say not within thyself; give not way to any such thoughts or passions. I WILL RENDER TO THE MAN ACCORDING TO HIS WORK; I will repay him all his calumnies and injuries....
Proverbs 24:29 say H559 (H8799) do H6213 (H8799) done H6213 (H8804) render H7725 (H8686) man...
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...
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
_Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause._ THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF FALSE WITNESS There is nothing more dear and valuable to men than their reputation or good name. It is a mark of an ab...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 24:23 Further Sayings of “the Wise.” (See note on 22:17–24:22.) These sayings are grouped in a parallel fashion, as follows:...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 24:28_ AN UNCALLED-FOR TESTIMONY I. THERE ARE TIMES AND CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH IT IS OUR DUTY TO WITNESS AGAINST OUR NEIGHBOUR. When the interests of right and truth are...
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....
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...
1 Thessalonians 5:15; 2 Samuel 13:22; Judges 15:11; Matthew 5:39;...