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Another continuous exhortation rather than a collection of maxims.
Proverbs 23:16
The teacher rejoices when the disciple’s heart Proverbs 23:15
receives wisdom, and yet more when his lips can utter...
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CHAPTER 23 INSTRUCTIONS CONTINUED
The opening proverbs of this chapter treat of self-restraint in
curbing the appetite and give manners to be observed in the presence
of a superior. Warnings against r...
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It is possible to take these three verses together as a warning
against treachery lurking in the dainties of a royal table. In that
case, in Proverbs 23:1 we should render consider diligently what
(_m...
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POVERTY. dispossession. Hebrew. _yarash._ See note on Proverbs 6:11....
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_drowsiness_ occasioned by excess of meat and drink. Comp. Luke 21:34....
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TEXT Proverbs 23:13-23
13.
Withhold not correction from the child;
For if thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.
14.
Thou shalt beat him with the rod,
And shalt deliver his soul from Sheol...
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For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and
drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
AND DROWSINESS (THE NATURAL EFFECT OF EXCESS IN EATING AND DRINKING,
) SHALL CLOTHE (A MAN) WIT...
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1. RV 'him that is before thee.' Do not excite his contempt....
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The DROWSINESS follows nights of intemperance....
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 23
V1 When a ruler invites you for a meal, be careful!
Think, before you eat!...
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The father warns his son. The son must not be greedy for food. And he
must not be a drunk. This is because greedy people and drunks become
lazy. They want only to eat and to drink. They do not want to...
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DROWSINESS, that follows after such debauches....
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כִּי ־סֹבֵ֣א וְ֭ זֹולֵל יִוָּרֵ֑שׁ
וּ֝ קְרָעִ
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CHAPTER 24
EDUCATION: THE PARENT'S THOUGHT OF THE CHILD
"Train up a child according to his way, and even when he is old he
will not depart from it."- Proverbs 22:6
"Withhold not correction from the...
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At the seventeenth verse of the previous chapter the section of the
Book begins in which the method is slightly changed. While the
teaching is still proverbial, it takes the form of longer discourses...
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_Rags. At death the insolent shall be exposed to shame._...
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Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. Be
not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard
and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall...
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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 THE DRUNKARD AND THE GLUTTON SHALL COME TO POVERTY,.... They
consuming their substance upon their bellies, in eating and drinking;
see Proverbs 21:17;
AND DROWSINESS SHALL CLOTHE [A MAN] WITH RAG...
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For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness
shall clothe [a man] with rags.
Ver. 21. _For the drunkard shall come to poverty._] Nay, to eternal
misery in hell; 1Co 6:10 but...
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_Hear and be wise_ Rest not in hearing, but see that thou grow wiser
and better by it. _And guide thy heart in the way_ Order the whole
course of thine affections and actions in God's way, often terme...
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DROWSINESS; immoderate sleep and idleness, which is a ready a way to
poverty as gluttony or drunkenness is....
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Proverbs 23:21 drunkard H5433 (H8802) glutton H2151 (H8802) poverty
H3423 (H8735) drowsiness H5124 clothe H3847
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CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son.
CONCLUSION: The indulgence of the appetites is a sin that easily
besets us. We should apprehend ourselves to be in danger when...
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Proverbs 23:1. _When thou sittest to eat with a ruler,_ and hast a
princely feast before thee of meats and wines, _put a knife to thy
throat, if thou be a man given to appetite._ How many have stained...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 23:17. LET NOT THINE HEART ENVY, etc. The verb translated
_envy_ refers to both objects in the verse, and is better translated
“_strive after_.” Miller renders it “_be aglow...
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 23:1
A hexastich closely connected with the last verse of the preceding
chapter, as if the warning was addressed to the man of skill whom his
talents had made the guest of kings....
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Now the next three verses are coupled together.
When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before
thee: And put a knife to your throat, if you be a man given to
appetite. Be not de...
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1 Corinthians 5:11; 1 Corinthians 6:10; Deuteronomy 21:20; Galatians
5:21;...