George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Proverbs 19:11
Wrongs. The wise man is not vindictive or punctilious.
Wrongs. The wise man is not vindictive or punctilious.
Verse Proverbs 19:11. IT IS _HIS GLORY TO PASS OVER A TRANSGRESSION._] "No," says what is termed a _man of honour_; "he must meet me as a gentleman; I must have his blood, let God say what he will....
CHAPTER 19:1-19 FURTHER PROVERBS ON PERSONAL INSTRUCTION One may be poor, but walking in integrity, he is far ahead of him who is perverse in his lips and is a fool. Then we find proverbs about frett...
PROVERBS 19. A shrewd turn of sarcasm in Proverbs 19:3 suggests the attitude of practical wisdom towards that questioning of the moral government of the world which we find in Job. PROVERBS 19:1. FOO...
DEFERRETH HIS ANGER. Illustrations: Joseph (Genesis 40:15); Moses (Numbers 12); David (1 Samuel 24; 1 Samuel 26:5, &c.); the Prophet ...
_deferreth his anger_ MAKETH HIM SLOW TO ANGER, R.V.; ἐλεήμων ἀνὴρ μακροθυμεῖ, LXX. Comp. Isaiah 48:9, where the Heb. phrase is the same as here. The cognate Heb. phrase "slow to anger," occurs freque...
TEXT Proverbs 19:11-20 11. The discretion of a man maketh him slow to anger; And it is his glory to pass over a transgression. 12. The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; But his favor is as...
The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. THE DISCRETION OF A MAN DEFERRETH HIS ANGER. Discretion maketh a man long-suffering and patient of wr...
19:11 transgression. (b-20) Or 'an offence.'...
1. FOOL] read, 'rich' (Proverbs 28:6)....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 19 V1 A man may be poor but he still remains honest. He is better than the fool, whose words are false....
A wise man forgives the mistakes of other people. This shows that the wise man is a great man. See Matthew 6:14-15....
IT IS HIS GLORY TO PASS OVER A TRANSGRESSION. — In this he imitates a Greater. Comp. Micah 7:18; Romans 3:25; Matthew 5:45.)...
שֵׂ֣כֶל אָ֭דָם הֶאֱרִ֣יךְ אַפֹּ֑ו וְ֝ תִפאַרְתֹּ֗ו...
CHAPTER 20 HUMAN FREEDOM "The foolishness of man subverteth his way; And his heart fretteth against the Lord."- Proverbs 19:3 THERE is such a valuable expansion and commentary on this proverb in th...
Verse Proverbs 19:7. This is the only case in this first collection of proverbs in which we find three clauses. It is certainly most likely that the third clause is incomplete. Something has been lost...
The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and [it is] his glory (d) to pass over a transgression. (d) That is, to cover it by charity, and to do in it as may most serve to God's glory....
Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes. The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. The king's wrath is...
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...
THE DISCRETION OF A MAN DEFERRETH HIS ANGER,.... That he does not show it immediately; but takes time to consider of the offence given him, and makes use of a proper time to resent what is fit should...
_The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and [it is] his glory to pass over a transgression._ Ver. 11. _The discretion of a man deferreth his anger._] Plato, when angry with his servant, would n...
_The discretion of a man deferreth his anger_ Defers the admission of anger, till he has thoroughly considered all the merits of the provocation, seen them in a true light, and weighed them in a just...
V. 11. THE DISCRETION OF A MAN DEFERRETH HIS ANGER; if he always follows the dictates of prudence, he will delay his anger and show all due patience with the erring; AND IT IS HIS GLORY, it adds to hi...
DISCRETION: Or, prudence...
This is opposed to the perverse judgment of worldly men, who account it folly and stupidity not quickly to resent a provocation, and a dishonour and reproach not to revenge it....
Proverbs 19:11 discretion H7922 man H120 slow H748 (H8689) anger H639 glory H8597 overlook H5674 (H8800) transgres
CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: If we keep God's Word, God's Word will keep us from all things that are really hurtful. Those who despise the ways of His W...
Proverbs 19:1. _Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity,_ in simplicity and honesty of heart, than a fool whose tongue is perverse, and whose body is swoln with corpulency. The contrast of me...
_The discretion of a man deferreth his anger._ ANGER If any vice is often reproved in the Word of God, you may be assured it springs prolific in the life of man. In this book of morals anger is a fre...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 19:11 In many cultures, any sign of disrespect challenges a man’s honor. He can defend it only by fighting the person who insults him. Overlooking such disrespect brings hono...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 19:11. DISCRETION, or “_intelligence_.” _MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 19:11_ TWO KINGS I. THE MAN WHO EXERCISES DESPOTIC POWER OVER THE DESTINIES OF HIS FELLOW CREATURES. T...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 19:1 BETTER IS THE POOR THAT WALKTH IN HIS INTEGRITY. The word for "poor" is, here and in Proverbs 19:7, Proverbs 19:22, _rash, _which signifie
Better is the poor that walks in his integrity [or in honesty], than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool. Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with...
Colossians 3:12; Colossians 3:13; Ephesians 4:32; Ephesians 5:1;...