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Verse Proverbs 15:25. _THE HOUSE OF THE PROUD_] Families of this
description are seldom continued long. The Lord hates _pride_; and
those that will not be _humble_ he will _destroy_....
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THE WIDOW - Here, as elsewhere Deuteronomy 10:18; Psalms 68:5, the
widow, as the most extreme type of desolation, stands as the
representative of a class safer in their poverty under the protection
of...
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CHAPTER 15 THE BETTER THINGS
One can read through the proverbs recorded in this chapter and ask the
question, What are the better things?
A soft answer which turneth away wrath is better than grievou...
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PROVERBS 15. This chapter makes no new departure. Proverbs concerning
the moral government of the world again occupy the chief place. One
(Proverbs 15:11) is noteworthy as showing an extended concepti...
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BORDER. landmark. Note the contrast with "house"....
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_destroy_ Rather, ROOT UP, R.V., in contrast with _establish_in the
next clause.
_widow_ As typical of the humble and poor. Comp. Psalms 68:5, and for
the sentiment 1 Peter 5:5....
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TEXT Proverbs 15:23-33
23.
A man hath joy in the answer of his mouth;
And a word in due season, how good is it!
24.
To the wise the way of life goeth upward,
That he may depart from Sheol beneat...
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The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish
the border of the widow.
THE LORD WILL DESTROY THE HOUSE OF THE PROUD: BUT HE WILL ESTABLISH
THE BORDER OF THE WIDOW - whom "the...
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1. GRIEVOUS] i.e. annoying. 'If one pour in hot water let the other
pour in cold.'...
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Everything that God does is right.
Some people will praise a proud man. Some people think that proud
people are very great. God does not think this. In the end, God will
punish proud people.
Some pe...
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 15
V1 A quiet answer reduces anger.
But an impatient word increases anger....
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THE PROUD — who trust in their own strength; while He will
“establish the border,” or landmark, of the helpless widow, who
has none to cry to but Him. The frequently threatened punishment
against one...
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בֵּ֣ית גֵּ֭אִים יִסַּ֥ח ׀ יְהוָ֑ה וְ֝
יַצֵּ֗ב...
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CHAPTER 16
A PASSIONATE DISPOSITION
"A soft answer turneth away wrath: but a grievous word stirreth up
anger." In the LXX there is another clause inserted at the beginning.-
Proverbs 15:1
"A meek t...
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WORDS IN SEASON
Proverbs 15:18-33
Learn to be slow to anger. This paragraph describes the even temper
which is blessed to live with and blessed to die with. Temper is said
to be nine-tenths of Christ...
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Verse Proverbs 15:11. This is a simple method of drawing attention to
God's perfect knowledge of all the deepest and hidden things. If that
which is most full of mystery to us is perfectly known to Hi...
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A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger
appeaseth strife. The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of
thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain. A wise son maketh
a...
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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 LORD WILL DESTROY THE HOUSE OF THE PROUD,.... To whom he has the
utmost aversion; he sets himself against them and resists them, and
will not only destroy them, but their stately houses too, which...
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The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish
the border of the widow.
Ver. 25. _The Lord will destroy the house of the proud._] Where he
thinks himself most safe, God will pull...
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_The Lord will destroy the house of the proud_ Of the most mighty
oppressors, who suppose themselves to be immoveably fixed; or the
family of haughty men, who, forgetting him, trample upon their
infer...
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OF THE PROUD; of the most mighty oppressors, who conceit themselves to
be unmovably fixed. THE BORDER; either,
1. The estate, _the border_ being oft used for the land within the
borders, as PSALMS 10...
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Proverbs 15:25 LORD H3068 destroy H5255 (H8799) house H1004 proud
H1343 establish H5324 (H8686) boundary H1366
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CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: The course of the wicked man is an abomination to God,
neither is there any offering he can make to God that can be accepte...
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Proverbs 15:1. _A soft answer turneth away wrath._ It bows to the
tempest, it names a mitigating circumstance, it gives a favourable
turn to misconstruction, it proposes a better way. My father, said...
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 15:25 These proverbs begin and end with a
contrast: THE LORD opposes the PROUD (v....
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 15:25. ESTABLISH THE BORDER, or “Keep fixed the
landmark.”
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 15:25_
DESTRUCTION AND ESTABLISHMENT
I. THE CHARACTER OF THOSE DOOMED TO DESTRUCTIO...
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 15:1
A SOFT ANSWER TURNETH AWAY WRATH. Two things are here to be observed:
an answer should be given—the injured person should not wrap himself
in sullen silence; and that answer...
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Fifteen. I love this first one here.
A soft answer turns away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger
(Proverbs 15:1).
How oftentimes a person comes just raging and a soft answer turns away
wrath. If...
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1 Peter 5:5; Daniel 5:20; Deuteronomy 10:17; Deuteronomy 10:18;...
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The proud — Of the mighty oppressors. The border — The estate, the
border being often used, for the land within the borders....