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Verse Proverbs 24:7. _A FOOL - OPENETH NOT HIS MOUTH IN THE GATE._] Is
not put into public offices of trust and responsibility....
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IN THE GATE - Compare the Proverbs 22:22 note....
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CHAPTER 24 INSTRUCTIONS CONTINUED
In the final instructions of this chapter we find first a description
of the evil men. Their heart studieth destruction; their lips talk
mischief. This theme is repea...
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PROVERBS 24:7 A. Lit. Wisdom is corals to the fool. RV involves a
change m the text, which gives perhaps the best sense that can be made
of an obviously corrupt stanza.
Proverbs 24:9. thought: the wor...
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WISDOM. Hebrew, plural. true wisdom. See notes on Proverbs 1:20;
Proverbs 9:1. and Compare Proverbs 14:1.
IS TOO HIGH. seems to be, or is regarded as coral: i.e. as an ornament
costly, and, to him, un...
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too _high_ Lit. (_unattainable_) HEIGHTS. The same Heb. word is
rendered _coral_, Job 28:18; Ezekiel 27:16; so that we might render
here _an_unattainable _treasure_, or _a gem_beyond his reach.
_opene...
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CHAPTER 24
TEXT Proverbs 24:1-12
1.
Be not thou envious against evil men;
Neither desire to be with them:
2.
For their heart studieth oppression,
And their lips talk of mischief.
3.
Through wi...
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Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
WISDOM IS TOO HIGH FOR A FOOL - to attain unto. The difficulty lies
not in wisdom, which is easy to the sincere, but in the foo...
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24:7 fool. (d-7) Or 'Jewels (lit. 'high-priced things') for a fool are
wisdom.'...
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5. Read, 'A wise man is better than a warrior, and a man of knowledge
than a man of strength.'...
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When put on his trial 'in the gate' of the city, where public business
was usually transacted, he has nothing to say (Matthew 22:12)....
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In ancient Israel, the men from a city would meet at the city gate.
They would discuss the city’s problems together. Sometimes they
would act like judges in a court. Sometimes they would decide whethe...
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 24
V1 Do not be jealous of evil men.
Do not try to meet them.
V2
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WISDOM IS TOO HIGH FOR A FOOL. — For “wisdom” (literally,
_wisdoms_)_,_ comp. note on Proverbs 1:20. He has been too self-willed
to learn; so while others express their opinions when the business or
j...
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רָאמֹ֣ות לֶֽ אֱוִ֣יל חָכְמֹ֑ות בַּ֝ †
שַּׁ֗עַר...
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CHAPTER 25
FORGIVING
"Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause, and deceive not
with thy lips. Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me; I
will render to the man according to hi...
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Warnings are uttered against envy, against the formation of evil
companionships, against excess in passion, against all false
exhilaration; and perperpetual attention to wisdom and earnest
endeavor to...
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Wisdom [is] too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the (a)
gate.
(a) In the place where wisdom should be shown....
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_High. Thus the fool excuses himself. But wisdom condescends to our
weakness, if we be truly in earnest, Deuteronomy xxxii. 12. Mouth. To
defend himself, or to give advice. (Calmet)_...
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Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.
For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it...
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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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WISDOM [IS] TOO HIGH FOR A FOOL,.... It is out of his reach, he cannot
attain it; natural wisdom, or the knowledge of many things in nature;
at least it seems so to himself, and therefore will not tak...
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_Wisdom is too high for a fool_ For a wicked man, whose sins enfeeble
his mind, and make it incapable of wisdom. Or, he judges it too
difficult for him to understand: he despairs of attaining it, beca...
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V. 7. WISDOM IS TOO HIGH, altogether unattainable, FOR A FOOL; HE
OPENETH NOT HIS MOUTH IN THE GATE, he cannot be consulted by the
leading men of the city as they deliberate upon the welfare of the
co...
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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...
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Proverbs 24:7 Wisdom H2454 lofty H7311 (H8802) fool H191 open H6605
(H8799) mouth H6310 gate H8179...
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CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son.
CONCLUSION: If wicked people prosper, we should not be inclined to do
as they do, nor complain of what God does in His provide...
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Proverbs 24:1. _Be not envious against evil men._ Similar thoughts
occur in Psalms 37:1; Psalms 73; Proverbs 17:1. Why should we envy the
wicked? We are all g
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 24:7 Other proverbs indicate that the FOOL
can never stop talking (e.g., Proverbs 10:19;...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 24:7. WISDOM IS TOO HIGH, etc. Delitzsch here reads, _Wisdom
seems to the fool to be an ornamental commodity_, and thinks “the
comparison lies in the rarity, costliness, and...
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 24:1
We return here to the more usual form, the tetrastich. BE NOT THOU
ENVIOUS AGAINST EVIL MEN (see on Proverbs 23:17, where a similar
warning is given, and comp....
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Again, he continues in twenty-four in putting them together in
couplets or in phrases.
Be not envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. For
their heart studies destruction, and their...
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1 Corinthians 2:14; Amos 5:10; Amos 5:12; Amos 5:15; Isaiah 29:21;...
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A fool — For a wicked man, whose sins enfeeble his mind, and make it
incapable of wisdom. Openeth not — He knows not how to speak
acceptably, and profitably in the publick assembly....