Destruction; put for the place of destruction, by a usual metonymy; the place and state of the damned, of which men know nothing but by Divine revelation. The hearts; whose thoughts and affections, though they lie deep, discover themselves by outward signs and actions.
Verse Proverbs 15:11. _HELL AND DESTRUCTION_] שאול ואבדון _sheol vaabaddon_. _Hades_, the invisible world, the place of separate spirits till the resurrection: and _Abaddon_, the place of _torment_; a...
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...
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...
HELL. the grave. Hebrew. _Sheol._ App-35. CHILDREN. sons. MEN. Hebrew. _'adam._ App-14....
_Hell and destruction_ SHEOL AND ABADDON with "_The grave_," and "_Destruction_" in the marg. R.V. In their preface the Revisers explain that "with a view to obviate inevitable misunderstanding," they...
TEXT Proverbs 15:1-11 1. A soft answer turneth away wrath; But a grevious word stirreth up anger. 2. The tongue of the wise uttereth knowledge aright; But the mouth of fools poureth out folly....
Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men? HELL AND DESTRUCTION (HEBREW, SHEOL AND ABADDON) (ARE) BEFORE THE LORD. "Destruction" - i:e., the pla...
15:11 destruction (i-3) _ Abaddon_ . Revelation 9:11 ....
1. GRIEVOUS] i.e. annoying. 'If one pour in hot water let the other pour in cold.'...
HELL AND DESTRUCTION] RV 'Sheol and Abaddon.' The latter means 'place of destruction': cp. Proverbs 27:20; Job 26:6; Job 28:22; Job 31:12;...
Some people think that God does not know their thoughts and actions. They are wrong. God even sees beyond the grave into hell. God knows all our thoughts, and all our actions. We cannot escape from Go...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 15 V1 A quiet answer reduces anger. But an impatient word increases anger....
HELL AND DESTRUCTION. — “Hell” is here the general name for the unseen world (_Hades_) beyond the grave, so called, according to one derivation, from its always “asking” for more victims, and never be...
שְׁאֹ֣ול וַ֭ אֲבַדֹּון נֶ֣גֶד יְהוָ֑ה אַ֝֗ף כ
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...
KIND WORDS AND GLAD HEARTS Proverbs 15:1-17 _A soft answer; the tongue of the wise; a wholesome tongue; the lips of the wise; the prayer of the upright_ -these keywords touch one of the greatest depa...
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...
(d) Hell and destruction [are] before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men? (d) There is nothing so deep or secret that can be hid from the eyes of God, much less man's thou...
_Before. Naked. The state of the damned is known to God, chap. ix. 18. (Calmet)_...
The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so. The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight. The way of...
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...
HELL AND DESTRUCTION [ARE] BEFORE THE LORD,.... Or "the grave" a, which is the pit of destruction; where bodies being put, putrefy, and are destroyed by worms: this is known by the Lord, even the grav...
Hell and destruction [are] before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men? Ver. 11. _Hell and destruction are before the Lord._] "Tophet is prepared of old"; and wherever it is...
_Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way_ God's way, emphatically called _the way_ here, as also Psalms 119:1, and elsewhere. He abhors reproof, because it is a reproach to him, and bec...
V. 11. HELL AND DESTRUCTION ARE BEFORE THE LORD, THE REALM OF THE DEAD, the place of eternal perdition, is uncovered before Him; He knows them, though they be hidden from the eyes of men; HOW MUCH MOR...
Proverbs 15:11 Hell H7585 Destruction H11 LORD H3068 hearts H3826 sons H1121 men H120 Hell -...
WISE WORDS, REPROOF AND FIRM DISCIPLINE UPHOLD THE RIGHTEOUS, GIVING THEM SUITABLE REWARD, WHILST THE UNRIGHTEOUS REJECT REPROOF, AND SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES (PROVERBS 15:4). In this subsection there...
HELL Hebrew, "Sheol," (_ See Scofield) - (Habakkuk 2:5); (Job 26:6); (Psalms 139:8). _...
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...
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...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 15:1 This is a series of proverbs dealing primarily with speech, submission to instruction, and God’s providence. ⇐...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 15:11. HELL AND DESTRUCTION, “Sheôl,” and “Abaddôn,” two different names for the world of the departed. “Sheôl” is the unseen world in general, “Abaddôn” the place of _destr...
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...
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...
2 Chronicles 6:30; Hebrews 4:13; Jeremiah 17:10; Job 26:6; John 2:24;...
Destruction — The place of destruction, of which men know nothing but by Divine revelation....