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Verse Proverbs 14:24. BUT _THE FOOLISHNESS OF FOOLS_ IS _FOLLY._] The
_Targum_ reads, _The honour of fools is folly_. The fool, from his
foolishness, produces acts of folly. This appears to be the mea...
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“The crown,” i. e., the glory of the wise man constitutes his
wealth. He alone is truly rich even as he alone (compare Proverbs
14:18 note) is truly king.
The seeming tautology of the second clause i...
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CHAPTER 14 THE WISE AND THE FOOLISH: THE RICH AND THE POOR
The contrast now concerns the wise and the foolish, the rich and the
poor. Let us see some of these contrasts. “In the mouth of the
foolish i...
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PROVERBS 14. In this, as in each of the preceding Chapter s in this
section, aphorisms on the moral government of the world come first in
number. There are rather more in this chapter of a political a...
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_The crown of the wise_ i.e. the wisdom which is their crown (Proverbs
14:18) is (constitutes) their riches. It is at once an ornament and a
thing of price; whereas the folly of fools is, and always r...
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BUT THE FOOLISHNESS OF FOOLS IS FOLLY— _But their fortunes are a
curse to fools._ Houbigant; thus preserving the opposition with the
preceding clause....
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TEXT Proverbs 14:13-24
13.
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful;
And the end of mirth is heaviness.
14.
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways;
And a good man shall be sati...
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The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools
is folly.
THE CROWN OF THE WISE (IS) THEIR RICHES; (BUT) THE FOOLISHNESS OF
FOOLS (IS) FOLLY. Not riches, but "wisdom, gives a cr...
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1. The prosperity of the family depends on the wife (Proverbs 31:10)....
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Riches rightly used are a crown: but a rich fool has no crown, has
nought but folly....
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A wise person deserves wealth and honour. However, many wise people
are not wealthy. This may be because, for a wise person, wisdom is
more important than money. A wise person works hard, but he does...
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 14
V1 The wise woman builds her house.
The foolish woman pulls down her own house with her own hands....
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THE CROWN OF THE WISE IS THEIR RICHES. — They adorn and set off the
wisdom of the wise, and bring it more prominently into notice; but the
“foolishness of fools” remains folly. The rich fool only disp...
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עֲטֶ֣רֶת חֲכָמִ֣ים עָשְׁרָ֑ם
אִוֶּ֖לֶת כְּסִילִ֣ים אִוֶּֽלֶת׃...
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CHAPTER 15
THE INWARD UNAPPROACHABLE LIFE
"The heart knoweth its own bitterness and a stranger doth not
intermeddle with its joy."- Proverbs 14:10
"Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful, and the...
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Verse Proverbs 14:7. The sense of this proverb is entirely altered in
the Revision. The Authorized reading would make it mean that if a man
is perceived to be devoid of knowledge he should be abandone...
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He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the
poor, happy is he. Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and
truth shall be to them that devise good. In all labour there i...
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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 CROWN OF THE WISE [IS] THEIR RICHES,.... Riches being used by them
to increase and improve their knowledge and wisdom, and for the good
of men, are an honour to them, and give them credit and repu...
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The crown of the wise [is] their riches: [but] the foolishness of
fools [is] folly.
Ver. 24. _The crown of the wise is their riches._] An ornament, an
encouragement in well doing, and an instrument o...
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_The crown of the wise is their riches_ They are a singular advantage
and ornament to them, partly as they make their wisdom more regarded,
while the poor man's wisdom is despised, Ecclesiastes 9:16;...
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V. 24. THE CROWN OF THE WISE IS THEIR RICHES, their possessions,
gained by dint of hard work, serve to honor them; BUT THE FOOLISHNESS
OF FOOLS IS FOLLY, no matter how much show and pomp he makes, how...
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THE CROWN OF THE WISE IS THEIR RICHES; they are a singular advantage
and ornament to them, partly as they make their wisdom more regarded,
when the poor man's wisdom is despised, ECCLESIASTES 9:16; an...
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Proverbs 14:24 crown H5850 wise H2450 riches H6239 foolishness H200
fools H3684 folly H200
crown -...
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THE TRIUMPH OF TRUTH OVER FALSEHOOD AND OF RIGHTEOUSNESS OVER
UNRIGHTEOUSNESS (PROVERBS 14:17).
The thought of truth against falsehood undergirds this subsection. It
commences with the fact that fools...
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CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: The house of the wicked, though built ever so strong and
high, shall be brought to disgrace and at length made extinct. The...
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Proverbs 14:1. _Every wise woman buildeth her house,_ as Proverbs 9:1,
by training up her children to industry, piety and virtue. She is
their first governess, and daily instils the elements of knowle...
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 14:24 The phrase THE FOLLY OF FOOLS BRINGS
FOLLY appropriately captures the continuous nature of the foolish
path. See v. Proverbs 14:8;...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 14:24. Or, “It is a crown to the wise when they are rich,
but the folly of fools remains folly” (_Delitzsch_).
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 14:24_
WEALTH WITH AND WITHOUT...
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 14:1
EVERY WISE WOMAN BUILDETH HER HOUSE. Wise women order well their
household matters and their families; they have an important
influence, and exercise it beneficially.
Γυναι...
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Continuation of the contrasting of goodness and evil.
Every wise woman (Proverbs 14:1)
And wise and foolish contrasted always, too.
Every wise woman builds her house (Proverbs 14:1):
She takes care...
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Ecclesiastes 7:11; Ecclesiastes 7:12; Isaiah 33:6; Luke 12:19; L
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Riches — They are a singular advantage and ornament to them. But —
As for rich fools, their folly is not cured, but made worse and more
manifest by their riches....