Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Proverbs 4:16
They sleep not; they cannot compose themselves to sleep with quietness and satisfaction to their own minds. To fall into their own snares, either into sin or into mischief.
They sleep not; they cannot compose themselves to sleep with quietness and satisfaction to their own minds. To fall into their own snares, either into sin or into mischief.
Verse Proverbs 4:16. _EXCEPT THEY HAVE DONE MISCHIEF_] The _night_ is their time for spoil and depredation. And they must gain some _booty_, before they _go to rest_. This I believe to be the meaning...
The counsel which has come to him, in substance, from his father. Compare it with 2 Samuel 23:2 etc.; 1 Chronicles 28:9; 1 Chronicles 29:17;...
CHAPTER 4 _ 1. Solomon's training (Proverbs 4:1)_ 2. Hear, O my son: Receive my sayings (Proverbs 4:10) 3. My son, attend to my words. (Proverbs 4:20)...
FOR. Hebrew. _im l'o_. because; i.e. the reason why they sleep not is because they mean mischief, and because they intend an occasion of stumbling....
_their sleep is taken away_ Comp.: "Ergo non aliter poterit dormire; quibusdam Somnum rixa facit." Juv. _Sat_. III. 281, 2....
TEXT Proverbs 4:10-19 10. Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; And the years of thy life shall be many. 11. I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in paths of uprightness....
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall. FOR THEY SLEEP NOT, EXCEPT THEY HAVE DONE MISCHIEF; AND THEIR SLEEP IS TAKEN AWAY,...
ANCESTRAL WISDOM. THE TWO PATHS In Proverbs 4:1 the teacher lays stress on the fact that his instruction is a repetition of his father's. No teaching was thought valuable save that which was handed do...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 4 V1 My sons, listen to your father’s instruction. As you listen to me, you will understand more....
As Solomon emphasises the lesson, he uses humour. He tells us to imagine the evil man. This man is a very evil man. So, he cannot even sleep until he has done an evil action. At midnight he gets up. H...
FOR THEY SLEEP NOT... — The practice of evil has become as it were a second nature to them, they cannot live without it....
כִּ֤י לֹ֣א יִֽ֭שְׁנוּ אִם ־לֹ֣א יָרֵ֑עוּ וְֽ
CHAPTER 5 EDUCATION: THE CHILD'S THOUGHT OF THE PARENT "Wisdom doth live with children round her knees." - Wordsworth. "He taught me, and said unto me," etc. Proverbs 4:4 THIS chapter begins with a...
GUIDE-POSTS ON THE WAY OF LIFE Proverbs 4:10-27 One or two sentences stand out in this section, demanding special attention. _The path of the just, etc_., Proverbs 4:18. We may compare this beautiful...
In this chapter there are three addresses. The first is of the nature of personal testimony (verses Pro 4:1-9). The next two are exhortations to fidelity (verses Pro 4:10-27). The father urges his own...
For they (f) sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause [some] to fall. (f) Meaning that to do evil is more proper and natural to the wicked than to s...
Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many. I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths. When thou goest, thy steps shall not be strait...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 9. There are two very distinct parts in this book. The first nine Chapter s, which give the great general principles; and the proverbs, properly so...
FOR THEY SLEEP NOT, EXCEPT THEY HAVE DONE MISCHIEF,.... Or they cannot sleep, as Jarchi and Gersom interpret it. Oftentimes they cannot sleep on their beds for devising mischief, their thoughts are so...
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause [some] to fall. Ver. 16. _For they sleep not._] So much are they set upon it. Or as empty stomachs...
_Enter not into the path of the wicked_ Avoid their practices and company; _and go not in the way of evil men_ Do not proceed further therein. If thou hast unadvisedly entered into it, do not persist...
For they, the wicked, SLEEP NOT EXCEPT THEY HAVE DONE MISCHIEF, the fact that they have not committed some trespass keeps the sleep from their eyes; and their sleep is taken away unless they cause som...
WARNING AGAINST WICKEDNESS...
14-27 The way of evil men may seem pleasant, and the nearest way to compass some end; but it is an evil way, and will end ill; if thou love thy God and thy soul, avoid it. It is not said, Keep at a d...
Proverbs 4:16 sleep H3462 (H8799) evil H7489 (H8686) sleep H8142 taken H1497 (H8738) fall H3782 ...
GOD'S WISDOM TEACHES MEN THE WAY IN WHICH THEY SHOULD GO, A WAY IN WHICH THEY WILL NOT STUMBLE AND WHICH LEADS TO LIFE, THEY ARE THUS TO AVOID THE WAY OF THE WICKED IN WHICH MEN STUMBLE AND WHERE DEAT...
CONTENTS: Earnest exhortation to the study of true wisdom. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: True wisdom from God is the principle thing. It is that which recommends us to God, which be...
Proverbs 4:1. _Hear, ye children,_ a Hebraism, equivalent to wash, cleanse, and purify your ears. A grateful son here recites the domestic piety of an illustrious father. David talked much with his ch...
_Their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall._ THE PROSELYTISM OF ERROR It is of the wicked that Solomon here speaks. What a restlessness does this indicate! What a zeal in a bad cause!...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 4:10 This passage gives one of the main teachings of Proverbs 1:1: the doctrine of the two ways. Everyone has a choice between entering the way of wisdom and the way of foll
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 4:14 One should avoid the way of the WICKED, for it creates a hunger that is destructive and that cannot be satisfied (v. Proverbs 4:16
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 4:14. GO NOT. The Heb. is literally “to go straightforward;” also, “to pronounce happy.” PROVERBS 4:15. AVOID, “Let it go,” reject it.” TURN FROM IT, _i.e._, even if thou h...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 4:1 7. _Seventh admonitory discourse. _We here enter upon the second group of admonitory discourses, as is indicated by the opening address, "my children," and which occurs again...
Continuing to his son. Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend that you might know understanding. For I give you good doctrine, don't forsake my law. For I was my father's son, ten...
2 Peter 2:14; Isaiah 57:20; John 18:28; Luke 22:66; Micah 2:1;...
SACRED EXHORTATIONS Proverbs 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It is well, now and then, to step aside and consider what God has to say to young men and women; as well as to consider what He says to their fath...
For — They cannot sleep with quietness....