Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Proverbs 15:27
Troubleth — Brings God's curse upon himself and family. Gifts — Bribes given to corrupt judgment. Live — Shall preserve himself and family from ruin.
Troubleth — Brings God's curse upon himself and family. Gifts — Bribes given to corrupt judgment. Live — Shall preserve himself and family from ruin.
Verse Proverbs 15:27. _HE THAT IS GREEDY OF GAIN_] He who _will_ be rich; _troubleth his own house_-he is a torment to himself and his family by his avariciousness and penury, and a curse to those wit...
GIFTS - There is a special application to the office of the judge. The Aramaic Targum paraphrases the first words of this passage as: “he who gathers the mammon of unrighteousness,” using the words wi...
CHAPTER 15 THE BETTER THINGS One can read through the proverbs recorded in this chapter and ask the question, What are the better things? A soft answer which turneth away wrath is better than grievou...
PROVERBS 15. This chapter makes no new departure. Proverbs concerning the moral government of the world again occupy the chief place. One (Proverbs 15:11) is noteworthy as showing an extended concepti...
GIFTS. bribes. Compare Proverbs 18:1; Proverbs 20:21....
_gifts_ The proverb, though universal in its moral, is Oriental in its form. Gifts "play a very important part in the social life of the East" (see Smith's _Dict. of Bible_, GIFT). Hence they form at...
TEXT Proverbs 15:23-33 23. A man hath joy in the answer of his mouth; And a word in due season, how good is it! 24. To the wise the way of life goeth upward, That he may depart from Sheol beneat...
He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live. HE THAT IS GREEDY OF GAIN TROUBLETH HIS OWN HOUSE (BY TAKING GIFTS AS A JUDGE, , AND THEREFORE SHALL DIE): BU...
1. GRIEVOUS] i.e. annoying. 'If one pour in hot water let the other pour in cold.'...
Bribery is one of the greatest curses of the East (Exodus 18:21; Ezekiel 22:12; Sir 17:7)....
People give bribes (secret gifts) so that other people will do wrong things. For example, if a judge accepts a bribe, then he might punish an innocent man. If a government official accepts a bribe, th...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 15 V1 A quiet answer reduces anger. But an impatient word increases anger....
HE THAT IS GREEDY OF GAIN. — Ill-gotten gain, especially bribes, as is seen in the next line. TROUBLETH HIS OWN HOUSE. — The word used of Achan (Joshua 7:25). GIFTS. — Bribes taken by a judge. (Eccl...
עֹכֵ֣ר בֵּ֭יתֹו בֹּוצֵ֣עַ בָּ֑צַע וְ שֹׂונֵ֖א...
CHAPTER 16 A PASSIONATE DISPOSITION "A soft answer turneth away wrath: but a grievous word stirreth up anger." In the LXX there is another clause inserted at the beginning.- Proverbs 15:1 "A meek t...
WORDS IN SEASON Proverbs 15:18-33 Learn to be slow to anger. This paragraph describes the even temper which is blessed to live with and blessed to die with. Temper is said to be nine-tenths of Christ...
Verse Proverbs 15:11. This is a simple method of drawing attention to God's perfect knowledge of all the deepest and hidden things. If that which is most full of mystery to us is perfectly known to Hi...
_Troubleth. With all sorts of temporal misfortunes. A judge who receives bribes, is accursed, Exodus xxiii. 8. --- By, &c., is not here in Hebrew, but [in] chap. xvi. 6. St. Cyprian (3 Test.) found it...
A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife. The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain. A wise son maketh a...
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...
HE THAT IS GREEDY OF GAIN TROUBLETH HIS OWN HOUSE,.... Or "that covets a covetousness" t, an evil one, as in Habakkuk 2:9; that seeks riches by unlawful means, that gathers the mammon of falsehood, or...
He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live. Ver. 27. _He that is greedy of gain, troubleth his own house._] Fires his own nest while he thinks to feather i...
_He that is greedy of gain_ That seeketh wealth by unjust practices, which the opposite clause shows to be the sense intended; _troubleth his own house_ Bringeth God's displeasure and destruction upon...
V. 27. HE THAT IS GREEDY OF GAIN, his covetousness causing him to seek unjust gain, TROUBLETH HIS OWN HOUSE, for his actions are bound to bring unpleasant consequences to his own family; BUT HE THAT H...
HE THAT IS GREEDY OF GAIN, that seeketh wealth by unjust courses, as appears from the opposite clause, TROUBLETH HIS OWN HOUSE; bringeth God's curse and destruction upon himself and his family, whom h...
Proverbs 15:27 greedy H1214 (H8802) gain H1215 troubles H5916 (H8802) house H1004 hates H8130 (H8802) bribes...
CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The course of the wicked man is an abomination to God, neither is there any offering he can make to God that can be accepte...
Proverbs 15:1. _A soft answer turneth away wrath._ It bows to the tempest, it names a mitigating circumstance, it gives a favourable turn to misconstruction, it proposes a better way. My father, said...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 15:25 These proverbs begin and end with a contrast: THE LORD opposes the PROUD (v....
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 15:27. GIFTS, _i.e._, “bribes.” _MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 15:27_ THE CURSE OF COVETOUSNESS I. A DEFINITION OF A COVETOUS MAN. “He that is _greedy_ of gain.” He desires...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 15:1 A SOFT ANSWER TURNETH AWAY WRATH. Two things are here to be observed: an answer should be given—the injured person should not wrap himself in sullen silence; and that answer...
Fifteen. I love this first one here. A soft answer turns away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger (Proverbs 15:1). How oftentimes a person comes just raging and a soft answer turns away wrath. If...
1 Samuel 8:3; 2 Kings 5:27; Deuteronomy 16:19; Deuteronomy 7:26;...