Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Proverbs 19:4
Is disowned and forsaken by those who are most obliged to help him.
Is disowned and forsaken by those who are most obliged to help him.
Verse Proverbs 19:4. _THE POOR IS SEPARATED FROM HIS NEIGHBOUR._] Because he has the "disease of all-shunned poverty....
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...
THE POOR. a weak one. Hebrew. _dal._ See note on Proverbs 6:11. Same word as in Proverbs 19:17. not the same word as in verses: Proverbs 19:1;...
_maketh_ Rather, ADDETH; προστίθησι, LXX.; addunt (divitiæ), Vulg.; the contrast being between the new friends gained by wealth, and the existing FRIEND (R.V.) lost by poverty, ὁ δὲ πτωχὸς καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ...
CHAPTER 19 TEXT Proverbs 19:1-10 1. Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity Than he that is perverse in his lips and is a fool. 2. Also, that the soul be without knowledge is not good;...
Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour. WEALTH MAKETH (HEBREW = ADDS) MANY FRIENDS: BUT THE POOR IS SEPARATED FROM HIS NEIGHBOUR - from him WEALTH MAKETH (HEBREW =...
1. FOOL] read, 'rich' (Proverbs 28:6)....
In these verses, Solomon discusses things that are wrong. Many wrong things happen in this world....
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....
Many people prefer wealthy friends, and dislike poor people. Such behaviour is wrong. See James 2:1-4; Proverbs 18:24, and Luke 14:12-14....
THE POOR IS SEPARATED FROM HIS NEIGHBOUR. — Or, _but the feeble, his friend separates himself_ (_from him_). It was just in order to counteract these selfish instincts of mankind that the merciful pro...
הֹ֗ון יֹ֭סִיף רֵעִ֣ים רַבִּ֑ים וְ֝ דָ֗ל מֵ
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...
Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, 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 his feet sinne...
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...
WEALTH MAKETH MANY FRIENDS,.... Or "adds" f; it increases the number of them: so the poet g, "donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos"; and to this agrees what the wise man says, Proverbs 14:20; B...
Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour. Ver. 4. _Wealth maketh many friends._] _Res amicos invenit,_ saith he in Plautus. Wine, saith Athenaeus, hath ελκοστικον τι π...
V. 4. WEALTH MAKETH MANY FRIENDS, for people seek the favor of the wealthy, in the hope of obtaining some benefit for themselves; BUT THE POOR IS SEPARATED FROM HIS NEIGHBOR, it is the way of the worl...
Proverbs 19:4 Wealth H1952 makes H3254 (H8686) many H7227 friends H7453 poor H1800 separated H6504 (H8735) friend
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...
_Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour._ THE RICH AND THE POOR Nothing upon earth is so powerful as money. It is a force before which everything bows. Wealth is suc...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 19:2. SINNETH, literally “goeth astray.” Delitzsch reads the last clause, “_He who hasteneth with the legs after it goeth astray_.” PROVERBS 19:3. PERVERTETH, rather “overt...
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...
Job 19:13; Job 6:15; Luke 15:13; Proverbs 10:15; Proverbs 14:20;...