Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Proverbs 18:22
A wise — A good wife; one that deserves the name, and performs the duty of that relation. Favour — Obtains her not by his own diligence, but by God's good providence.
A wise — A good wife; one that deserves the name, and performs the duty of that relation. Favour — Obtains her not by his own diligence, but by God's good providence.
Verse Proverbs 18:22. WHOSO _FINDETH A WIFE FINDETH A GOOD_ THING] _Marriage_, with all its troubles and embarrassments, is a blessing from God; and there are _few cases_ where a _wife of any sort_ i...
The sense seems to require, “Whoso findeth a good wife,” as in some Chaldee manuscripts; but the proverb writer may be looking at marriage in its ideal aspect, and sees in every such union the hands o...
CHAPTER 18 PROVERBS OF PERSONAL INSTRUCTION There is first a warning against separation produced by desire, that is for gratification and pleasure, and not for a righteous purpose. Such a one becomes...
PROVERBS 18:1. MT yields no satisfactory sense. The LXX reads The man who wishes to separate from his friends seeks pretexts, but is always liable to reproach. Frankenberg renders the alienated friend...
A WIFE. Some codices, Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read, "a good wife". Compare Proverbs 19:14....
Compare: "Happy is the husband of a good wife; And the number of his days shall be twofold. A brave woman rejoiceth her husband; And he shall fulfil his years in peace. A good wife is a good port...
WHOSO FINDETH A WIFE FINDETH A GOOD THING— _He who findeth a good wife, findeth a good thing._ Houbigant, after many of the versions. See chap. Proverbs 19:14. The LXX and Vulgate read at the end of t...
STUDY QUESTIONS OVER 18:13-24 1. How is it folly to him (Proverbs 18:13)? 2. How is it shame to him (Proverbs 18:13)? 3. What would a doctor get out of Proverbs 18:14? 4. L
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD. (WHOSO) FINDETH A WIFE (I:E., ONE TRULY REALIZING WHAT A WIFE OUGHT, TO BE) FINDETH A GOOD (THING). It was a "good" thin...
1. Lit. 'One who separates himself seeks desire, quarrels with all wisdom.' This would mean that a solitary recluse follows his own wishes and opposes everything reasonable. But LXX suggests, 'The ali...
A good wife (Sir 17:28)....
See Proverbs 31:10-21. When a man marries a woman, this is good. See Genesis 2:20-24. God has been good to them, so they love each other. They should look after each other. They should encourage and h...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 18 V1 An unfriendly man is selfish. He is not sensible. V2 A foo
WHOSO FINDETH A WIFE... — One who deserves the name of wife, as the one described in Proverbs 31:10, _sqq. _...
מָצָ֣א אִ֭שָּׁה מָ֣צָא טֹ֑וב וַ יָּ֥פֶק רָ֝צֹ
CHAPTER 19 THE EVIL OF ISOLATION "He that separates himself follows after his own desire, but against all sound wisdom he shows his teeth."- Proverbs 18:1 FROM the value of friendship there is a nat...
Verse Proverbs 18:1. The protest of this proverb is against the self-satisfaction which makes a man separate himself from the thoughts and opinions of others. Such a one finally "rages against," or "q...
[Whoever] findeth a (p) wife findeth a good [thing], and obtaineth favour from the LORD. (p) He who is joined with a virtuous woman in marriage is blessed by the Lord, as in (Proverbs 19:14)....
Good wife. Good is not in Hebrew, but should be understood, as it is expressed in the Complutensian (Calmet) and Alexandrian Septuagint. (Haydock) --- He that, &c., occurs not in Hebrew, Sixtus V, &c....
He that is first in his own cause seemeth just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him. The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty. A brother offended is harder to be won...
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...
[WHOSO] FINDETH A WIFE,.... A good one; so the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions, supply it; and so the Targum, though it leaves out the word good in the last clause; and no other...
__ Proverbs 18:22 _[Whoso] findeth a wife findeth a good [thing], and obtaineth favour of the LORD._ Ver. 22. _Whoso findeth a wife, &c._] Whoso, after much seeking, by prayer to God, and his own ut...
_Whoso findeth a wife A good wife;_ one that deserves the name, and performs the duty of that relation. Thus Houbigant interprets it after many of the versions: see Proverbs 19:14. _Findeth a good thi...
V. 22. WHOSO FINDETH A WIFE, the words implying an earnest and wise search, FINDETH A GOAD THING, for a virtuous wife is a true helpmeet for man, AND OBTAINETH FAVOR OF THE LORD, for such a wife is ab...
A WIFE; either, 1. Simply a wife; for a wife, though she be not the best of her kind, is to be esteemed a blessing, being useful both for society of life, GENESIS 2:18, and for the mitigation of a ma...
Proverbs 18:22 finds H4672 (H8804) wife H802 finds H4672 (H8804) good H2896 obtains H6329 (H8686) favor...
CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The only zone of safety is the name of the Lord which is the strong tower in which one may find rest and be fortified again...
Proverbs 18:1. _Through desire a man having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom._ יתגלע _yithgalâ;_ this word occurs but thrice, and only in the book of Proverbs; viz. here, a...
_Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord._ A HAPPY MARRIAGE At the outset these words strike two thoughts on our attention. 1. That celibacy is not the best mode...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 18:22 This verse refers to both the human action (FINDS) and the divine governance (FROM THE LORD) that results in a marriage. The description of the wife as...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 18:22_ A TWOFOLD GOOD I. POLYGAMY CANNOT BE RECOMMENDED BY THOSE WHO HAVE PRACTISED IT. A thousand counterfeit coins, even if they pass as genuine for a time, are nothing...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 18:1 This is a difficult verse, and has obtained various interpretations. The Authorized Version gives, THROUGH DESIRE A MAN, HAVING SEPARATED HIMSELF, SEEKETH AND INTERMEDDLETH W...
Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeks and intermeddleth with all wisdom. A fool has no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself. When the wicked comes, then com...
1 Corinthians 7:2; Ecclesiastes 9:9; Genesis 24:67; Genesis 29:20;...