Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Proverbs 19:16
His ways — The commands of God.
His ways — The commands of God.
KEEPETH HIS OWN SOUL - i. e., His life in the truest and highest sense....
CHAPTER 19:1-19 FURTHER PROVERBS ON PERSONAL INSTRUCTION One may be poor, but walking in integrity, he is far ahead of him who is perverse in his lips and is a fool. Then we find proverbs about frett...
PROVERBS 19. A shrewd turn of sarcasm in Proverbs 19:3 suggests the attitude of practical wisdom towards that questioning of the moral government of the world which we find in Job. PROVERBS 19:1. FOO...
KEEPETH. guardeth. DIE. die prematurely....
_despiseth_ i.e. pays no heed to them ( IS CARELESS of, R.V.; negligit, Vulg.), through a contemptuous disregard of "the commandment" which should regulate them. Similarly for _despise not_, A. V., we...
TEXT Proverbs 19:11-20 11. The discretion of a man maketh him slow to anger; And it is his glory to pass over a transgression. 12. The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; But his favor is as...
He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul; but he that despiseth his ways shall die. HE THAT KEEPETH THE COMMANDMENT (NAMELY, OF GOD) KEEPETH HIS OWN SOUL; (BUT) HE THAT DESPISETH HIS WA...
19:16 of (d-13) Lit. 'despiseth.'...
1. FOOL] read, 'rich' (Proverbs 28:6)....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 19 V1 A man may be poor but he still remains honest. He is better than the fool, whose words are false....
This verse briefly explains Deuteronomy 28. If we obey God’s law, then God will help us. If we do not obey, then we shall suffer. However, everyone does evil things. (See Romans 3:23.) So we must ask...
HE THAT DESPISETH HIS WAYS — _i.e._, takes no heed to them, whether they please God or not. SHALL DIE. — Physically (comp. Exodus 12:15; 1 Corinthians 11:30), spiritually (comp. Luke 1:79); a death to...
שֹׁמֵ֣ר מִ֭צְוָה שֹׁמֵ֣ר נַפְשֹׁ֑ו בֹּוזֵ֖ה דְרָכָ֣יו _יָמֽוּת_
CHAPTER 20 HUMAN FREEDOM "The foolishness of man subverteth his way; And his heart fretteth against the Lord."- Proverbs 19:3 THERE is such a valuable expansion and commentary on this proverb in th...
Verse Proverbs 19:7. This is the only case in this first collection of proverbs in which we find three clauses. It is certainly most likely that the third clause is incomplete. Something has been lost...
_Neglecteth. Hebrew, "contemneth." In the law of Moses, many transgressions are punished with death, but here that of the soul is meant. (Calmet)_...
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD. Slothfulness...
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 KEEPETH THE COMMANDMENT,.... Either of parents, as children ought to do; or of masters, as servants should; or of kings and princes, as is the duty of subjects in all things lawful: or rather...
He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul; [but] he that despiseth his ways shall die. Ver. 16. _He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul._] This is the first fruit of shaking...
V. 16. HE THAT KEEPETH THE COMMANDMENT, namely, that of God's Law, KEEPETH HIS OWN SOUL, for such conduct is conducive to spiritual life; BUT HE THAT DESPISETH HIS WAYS, taking no heed to keep them in...
THE COMMANDMENT; the commands of God, called by way of eminence the commandment, as the word is oft used emphatically for the word of God, as hath been noted before. fore. His ways; either, 1. His ow...
Proverbs 19:16 keeps H8104 (H8802) commandment H4687 keeps H8104 (H8802) soul H5315 careless H959 (H8802) ways...
CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: If we keep God's Word, God's Word will keep us from all things that are really hurtful. Those who despise the ways of His W...
Proverbs 19:1. _Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity,_ in simplicity and honesty of heart, than a fool whose tongue is perverse, and whose body is swoln with corpulency. The contrast of me...
_But he that despiseth his ways shall die._ THE FOLLY OF DESPISING OUR OWN WAYS I. The sinner’s fall and ruin. “He shall die.” There is a death that is common to all mankind. That is the general eff...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 19:16. Miller reads this verse “_He that guards the commandment guards himself; in scattering his ways he dies_.” (See his comment.) Hitzig’s rendering of the last clause ag...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 19:1 BETTER IS THE POOR THAT WALKTH IN HIS INTEGRITY. The word for "poor" is, here and in Proverbs 19:7, Proverbs 19:22, _rash, _which signifie
Better is the poor that walks in his integrity [or in honesty], than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool. Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with...
1 Corinthians 7:19; 1 John 2:3; 1 John 2:4; 1 John 3:22; 1 John 5:3;...