Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Proverbs 14:23
The talk — Idle talking will bring a man to poverty.
The talk — Idle talking will bring a man to poverty.
Verse Proverbs 14:23. _IN ALL LABOUR THERE IS PROFIT_] If a man work at his trade, he gains by it; if he cultivate the earth, it will yield an increase; and in _proportion_ as he _labours_, so will b...
The contrast between a single, thorough deed, and the mere emptiness of speech....
CHAPTER 14 THE WISE AND THE FOOLISH: THE RICH AND THE POOR The contrast now concerns the wise and the foolish, the rich and the poor. Let us see some of these contrasts. “In the mouth of the foolish i...
PROVERBS 14. In this, as in each of the preceding Chapter s in this section, aphorisms on the moral government of the world come first in number. There are rather more in this chapter of a political a...
IN ALL LABOUR THERE IS PROFIT— _All labour will produce abundance, but garrulity nothing but want._ Houbigant. Solomon here separates the fruit of the labour of the tongue and the labour of the hands;...
TEXT Proverbs 14:13-24 13. Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; And the end of mirth is heaviness. 14. The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways; And a good man shall be sati...
In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury. IN ALL LABOUR (HEBREW, PAINFUL LABOUR) THERE IS PROFIT: BUT THE TALK OF THE LIPS (TENDETH) ONLY TO PENURY. In all ho...
1. The prosperity of the family depends on the wife (Proverbs 31:10)....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 14 V1 The wise woman builds her house. The foolish woman pulls down her own house with her own hands....
In the end, even the best plan is only words. Words without work cannot earn money. Words alone do not achieve results. Only work can bring success. See James 2:14-17....
בְּ כָל ־עֶ֭צֶב יִהְיֶ֣ה מֹותָ֑ר וּ דְבַר
CHAPTER 15 THE INWARD UNAPPROACHABLE LIFE "The heart knoweth its own bitterness and a stranger doth not intermeddle with its joy."- Proverbs 14:10 "Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful, and the...
Verse Proverbs 14:7. The sense of this proverb is entirely altered in the Revision. The Authorized reading would make it mean that if a man is perceived to be devoid of knowledge he should be abandone...
He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he. Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good. In all labour there i...
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...
IN ALL LABOUR THERE IS PROFIT,.... Or "abundance" u; much is got by it, food, raiment, riches, wealth, wisdom, honour; either with the labour of the hands or head, and nothing is to be got without lab...
In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips [tendeth] only to penury. Ver. 23. _In all labour there is profit._] In all honest labour, for there are those who "do wickedly with both hands...
_In all labour there is profit_, &c. Diligent labour is the ready way to riches; but idle talking, wherein too many spend most of their precious time, will bring a man to poverty. Houbigant renders th...
V. 23. IN ALL LABOR THERE IS PROFIT, if a person is really diligent and earnest in his work, results will show; BUT THE TALK OF THE LIPS, idle talk, not backed up by honest toil, TENDETH ONLY TO PENUR...
Diligent labour is the ready way to riches, but idle talking, wherein too many spend most of their precious thee, will bring a man to poverty....
Proverbs 14:23 labor H6089 profit H4195 chatter H1697 H8193 poverty H4270 all - Proverbs 12:24,...
THE TRIUMPH OF TRUTH OVER FALSEHOOD AND OF RIGHTEOUSNESS OVER UNRIGHTEOUSNESS (PROVERBS 14:17). The thought of truth against falsehood undergirds this subsection. It commences with the fact that fools...
Proverbs 14:23 I. In the text Solomon gives us a lesson which holds good through all matters of life. That it is a short-sighted mistake to avoid taking trouble; for God has so ordered the world that...
CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The house of the wicked, though built ever so strong and high, shall be brought to disgrace and at length made extinct. The...
Proverbs 14:1. _Every wise woman buildeth her house,_ as Proverbs 9:1, by training up her children to industry, piety and virtue. She is their first governess, and daily instils the elements of knowle...
_In all labour there is profit._ WORK The doctrine of the Proverbs is, that what is good for the next world is good for this. He who wishes to go out of this world happily must first go through this...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 14:23_ THE PROFIT OF LABOUR 1. _The profit of social honour_. It is both natural and right that a man should desire the respect and good-will of those around him. Nothing...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 14:1 EVERY WISE WOMAN BUILDETH HER HOUSE. Wise women order well their household matters and their families; they have an important influence, and exercise it beneficially. Γυναι...
Continuation of the contrasting of goodness and evil. Every wise woman (Proverbs 14:1) And wise and foolish contrasted always, too. Every wise woman builds her house (Proverbs 14:1): She takes care...
1 Timothy 5:13; 2 Thessalonians 3:10; Ecclesiastes 5:3; Hebrews 6:10;...