Proverbs 24:1
PROVERBS CHAPTER 24 Their company or manner of life.... [ Continue Reading ]
PROVERBS CHAPTER 24 Their company or manner of life.... [ Continue Reading ]
STUDIETH DESTRUCTION; how they may oppress and destroy others, which yet at last falls upon their own heads.... [ Continue Reading ]
There is no need that thou shouldst raise thyself and family by ruining others, as the manner of wicked men is, which thou mayst more easily and effectually do by wisdom, and the fear of God.... [ Continue Reading ]
KNOWLEDGE; which in Scripture phrase includes the love and practice of that which we know.... [ Continue Reading ]
IS STRONG; is courageous and resolute, and able by wisdom to do greater things than others can accomplish by their own strength.... [ Continue Reading ]
War is better managed by wisdom than by strength. So this proves what he said in the last verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
WISDOM IS TOO HIGH FOR A FOOL; either, 1. Really, it is above his reach or capacity. Or, 2. In his opinion; he judgeth it too hard for him, he despairs of attaining it, he pretends the impossibility of it, because he will not put himself to the charge or trouble of getting it; as, on the contrary,... [ Continue Reading ]
Heb. _a master of mischief_. The sense is, Though he cover his wicked devices with fair pretences, and would be better esteemed, yet he shall be noted and branded with that infamy which is due to him.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE THOUGHT OF FOOLISHNESS IS SIN; the very inward thought or contrivance of evil, of which he spake PROVERBS 24:8, even before it break forth into action, it is a sin in God's sight, and it is hateful to God. Or FOOLISHNESS is put for foolish or wicked men, by comparing this with the next clause wh... [ Continue Reading ]
IF THOU FAINT; if thou art impatient, and unable to bear sufferings; if thy resolution flag, and thou givest way to despondency or dejection of mind. _Is small_, Heb. _is narrow_; it lives in a little compass; it is as strait as thy condition is; for there is an elegant allusion in the Hebrew words.... [ Continue Reading ]
TO DELIVER THEM, when it is in thy power to do it lawfully. DRAWN UNTO DEATH, to wit, unjustly, or by the violence of lawless men. THAT ARE READY TO BE SLAIN; that are in present danger of death or destruction.... [ Continue Reading ]
WE KNEW IT NOT; I was ignorant either of his innocency, or of his extreme danger, or of my power to relieve him. CONSIDER IT; that this is only a frivolous excuse, and that the true reason of thy neglect was thy want of true love to thy brother, whose life thou wast by the law of God and of nature o... [ Continue Reading ]
This is not a command, but a concession, and is here expressed only to illustrate the following verse. Honey in those parts was excellent, and a usual and an acceptable food. See DEUTERONOMY 8:8 JUDGES 14:18 1 SAMUEL 14:25.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN THOU HAST FOUND IT; whereby he implies that there is indeed some difficulty and trouble in the pursuit of wisdom, but that it is abundantly compensated with the sweetness and advantage of it when a man arrives at it. THEN THERE SHALL BE A REWARD, Heb. _and_ or _also there is a reward_. It is no... [ Continue Reading ]
LAY NOT WAIT; do him no injury, either by subtle and secret devices, or, as it follows, by manifest violence. AGAINST THE DWELLING OF THE RIGHTEOUS; against his person, or family, or possession.... [ Continue Reading ]
FALLETH; either, 1. Into sin. Or, rather, 2. Into calamities, of which he evidently speaks, both in the foregoing verse, and in the opposite and following branch of this verse, and so this word is used in the next verse, and PSALMS 37:24 ISAIAH 24:20 JEREMIAH 25:27 AMOS 8:14 MICAH 7:8, &c. And so t... [ Continue Reading ]
FALLETH, to wit, into mischief, as in the former verse. Please not thyself in his destruction; which plainly shows that the love of our enemies is a precept of the old law as well as of the gospel. See EXODUS 23:4,5.... [ Continue Reading ]
Understand, _upon thee_, which is implied in the Hebrew phrase, such defects being usual in that concise language, PSALMS 84:11 PROVERBS 19:1, and oft elsewhere. This consideration strikes at the root of that sinful and inhuman disposition, which is an expectation of safety or advantage to himself b... [ Continue Reading ]
FRET NOT THYSELF; which translation of the word is confirmed by the parallel word in the following clause. BECAUSE OF EVIL MEN; for their present impunity and good success.... [ Continue Reading ]
THERE SHALL BE NO REWARD TO THE EVIL MAN; all his hopes and happiness shall quickly and eternally perish, and he shall have the share in those solid felicities and blessed recompences of a better life which thou shalt enjoy; therefore thou hast no reason to envy him. THE CANDLE OF THE WICKED SHALL B... [ Continue Reading ]
FEAR THOU THE LORD AND THE KING; honour and obey both God and the king, and all in authority. He puts God before the king, because God is to be served in the first place, and our obedience is to be giver, to kings only in subordination to God, and not in those things which are contrary to the will a... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO KNOWETH? who can conceive how sore and sudden it will be? THE RUIN OF THEM BOTH; of them that fear not God, and of them that fear not the king, for they have two potent and terrible enemies; and therefore if they will not obey them out of conscience, as their duty binds them, yet they should do... [ Continue Reading ]
THESE THINGS ALSO, these proverbs or counsels here following to the end of the chapter, no less than those hitherto mentioned, BELONG TO THE WISE; are worthy of the consideration, and fit for the use, of them who are or would be wise; for only such are capable of understanding and improving these pr... [ Continue Reading ]
HE THAT SAITH, to wit, publicly, and in judgment, as he now said, and as appears by the publicness of the curse following upon it, for people or nations do neither observe nor hate every man who saith thus privately. THOU ART RIGHTEOUS, that justify wicked men in their unrighteous courses. NATIONS S... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT REBUKE HIM; that publicly and judicially rebuke and condemn the wicked. DELIGHT; the peace of a good conscience, and the comfort of a good name. A GOOD BLESSING; which the people shall wish, and by their prayers obtain, from God for them; which is fitly opposed to _the people's curse_ in the la... [ Continue Reading ]
EVERY MAN SHALL KISS HIS LIPS, shall highly respect and love him, of which kissing was a sign, THAT GIVETH A RIGHT ANSWER; who being called to speak, either as a judge, or witness, or otherwise, in weighty matters, speaks pertinently, and plainly, and truly, to the conviction and satisfaction of the... [ Continue Reading ]
This is a domestical precept, requiring both industry and prudence in the management of a man's concerns, that he take care in the first place to furnish himself with cattle and the fruits of the field, which are necessary for his subsistence, and after that he may procure such things as are for orn... [ Continue Reading ]
BE NOT A WITNESS AGAINST THY NEIGHBOUR, either in judgment or in private conversation, without cause; rashly or falsely, without just and sufficient cause. DECEIVE NOT neither thy neighbour, to whom thou hast made a show of friendship, nor the judge, nor any other bearers, with false information. Or... [ Continue Reading ]
Say not within thyself; give not way to any such thoughts or passions. I WILL RENDER TO THE MAN ACCORDING TO HIS WORK; I will repay him all his calumnies and injuries.... [ Continue Reading ]
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I learned wisdom by his folly, and by his gross idleness was provoked to greater care and diligence.... [ Continue Reading ]
See this and the following verse in PROVERBS 6:10,11.... [ Continue Reading ]
No text from Poole on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]