Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Proverbs 23:19
Guide — Order the whole course of thine affections and actions. In the way — In God's way.
Guide — Order the whole course of thine affections and actions. In the way — In God's way.
Another continuous exhortation rather than a collection of maxims. Proverbs 23:16 The teacher rejoices when the disciple’s heart Proverbs 23:15 receives wisdom, and yet more when his lips can utter...
CHAPTER 23 INSTRUCTIONS CONTINUED The opening proverbs of this chapter treat of self-restraint in curbing the appetite and give manners to be observed in the presence of a superior. Warnings against r...
It is possible to take these three verses together as a warning against treachery lurking in the dainties of a royal table. In that case, in Proverbs 23:1 we should render consider diligently what (_m...
MY SON. Note the characteristic of this member (p 891)....
TEXT Proverbs 23:13-23 13. Withhold not correction from the child; For if thou beat him with the rod, he will not die. 14. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, And shalt deliver his soul from Sheol...
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. HEAR THOU ... BE WISE, AND GUIDE THINE HEART IN THE WAY. Do not...
1. RV 'him that is before thee.' Do not excite his contempt....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 23 V1 When a ruler invites you for a meal, be careful! Think, before you eat!...
The father warns his son. The son must not be greedy for food. And he must not be a drunk. This is because greedy people and drunks become lazy. They want only to eat and to drink. They do not want to...
HEAR THOU, MY SON, whatever others may do. (Comp. above, on Proverbs 22:19.) GUIDE THINE HEART IN THE WAY. — That is, of God. (Comp. Isaiah 40:3, and note on Acts 9:2.)...
שְׁמַע ־אַתָּ֣ה בְנִ֣י וַ חֲכָ֑ם וְ אַשֵּׁ֖ר
CHAPTER 24 EDUCATION: THE PARENT'S THOUGHT OF THE CHILD "Train up a child according to his way, and even when he is old he will not depart from it."- Proverbs 22:6 "Withhold not correction from the...
At the seventeenth verse of the previous chapter the section of the Book begins in which the method is slightly changed. While the teaching is still proverbial, it takes the form of longer discourses...
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thy heart in the (i) way. (i) In the observation of God's commandments....
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall...
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...
HEAR THOU, MY SON, AND BE WISE,.... Hear the instruction of a father, of the word of Wisdom, of the ministers of the Gospel, which is the way to be wise unto salvation; faith comes by hearing; spiritu...
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. Ver. 19. _Hear thou, my son, and be wise._] Hearing is one of the learned senses, as Aristotle calls it. Wisdom entereth into the sou...
_Hear and be wise_ Rest not in hearing, but see that thou grow wiser and better by it. _And guide thy heart in the way_ Order the whole course of thine affections and actions in God's way, often terme...
V. 19. HEAR THOU, MY SON, AND BE WISE, AND GUIDE THINE HEART IN THE WAY, by directing it to go straight forward on the right way, in conduct becoming a believer, a child of God....
BE WISE; rest not in hearing, but see that thou growest wiser and better by it. GUIDE THINE HEART; order the whole course of thine affections and actions. IN THE WAY; in God's way, oft called the way,...
Proverbs 23:19 Hear H8085 (H8798) son H1121 wise H2449 (H8798) guide H833 (H8761) heart H3820 way...
Proverbs 23:19 In our course through life, our minds are liable to be placed in certain states of feeling strongly marked, and for the time strongly prevailing, and this by causes, by influences, and...
CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: The indulgence of the appetites is a sin that easily besets us. We should apprehend ourselves to be in danger when...
Proverbs 23:1. _When thou sittest to eat with a ruler,_ and hast a princely feast before thee of meats and wines, _put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite._ How many have stained...
_Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way._ THREE IMPORTANT PRECEPTS The words are very direct and personal. I. The precept contained in the word “hear.” I take it to mean,...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 23:17. LET NOT THINE HEART ENVY, etc. The verb translated _envy_ refers to both objects in the verse, and is better translated “_strive after_.” Miller renders it “_be aglow...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 23:1 A hexastich closely connected with the last verse of the preceding chapter, as if the warning was addressed to the man of skill whom his talents had made the guest of kings....
Now the next three verses are coupled together. When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: And put a knife to your throat, if you be a man given to appetite. Be not de...
Proverbs 23:12; Proverbs 23:26; Proverbs 4:10...