Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Proverbs 24:4
By knowledge — Which in scripture phrase includes the love and practice of what we know.
By knowledge — Which in scripture phrase includes the love and practice of what we know.
The “house” is figurative of the whole life, the “chambers” of all regions, inward and outward, of it....
CHAPTER 24 INSTRUCTIONS CONTINUED In the final instructions of this chapter we find first a description of the evil men. Their heart studieth destruction; their lips talk mischief. This theme is repea...
PROVERBS 24:7 A. Lit. Wisdom is corals to the fool. RV involves a change m the text, which gives perhaps the best sense that can be made of an obviously corrupt stanza. Proverbs 24:9. thought: the wor...
CHAMBERS. inner chambers....
_shall … be_ Rather, ARE....
CHAPTER 24 TEXT Proverbs 24:1-12 1. Be not thou envious against evil men; Neither desire to be with them: 2. For their heart studieth oppression, And their lips talk of mischief. 3. Through wi...
And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches. BY KNOWLEDGE - of God, and of our duty to Him, to our neighbour, and to ourselves. ALL PRECIOUS AND PLEASANT RICH...
5. Read, 'A wise man is better than a warrior, and a man of knowledge than a man of strength.'...
The writer describes a fine house. Perhaps the house is really a palace, because the house has rare and beautiful objects. This house can be like our lives. A house is safe if its builder was skilled...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 24 V1 Do not be jealous of evil men. Do not try to meet them. V2
ALL PRECIOUS AND PLEASANT RICHES. — Not only earthly wealth, but the “true riches” (Luke 16:11), the knowledge and love of God. (Comp. note on Proverbs 23:23.)...
וּ֭ בְ דַעַת חֲדָרִ֣ים יִמָּלְא֑וּ כָּל ־הֹ֖ו
CHAPTER 25 FORGIVING "Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause, and deceive not with thy lips. Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me; I will render to the man according to hi...
Warnings are uttered against envy, against the formation of evil companionships, against excess in passion, against all false exhilaration; and perperpetual attention to wisdom and earnest endeavor to...
Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief. Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it...
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...
AND BY KNOWLEDGE SHALT THE CHAMBERS BE FILLED WITH ALL PRECIOUS AND PLEASANT RICHES. That are both of worth, value, and usefulness, and for ornament and delight; the more private and retired parts of...
And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches. Ver. 4. _With all precious and pleasant riches._] Riches imply (1.) Plenty of that which is precious and pleasant....
_Through wisdom is a house built_ There is no need that thou shouldst raise thyself and family by ruining others, as the manner of wicked men is; for thou mayest more easily and effectually do it by w...
V. 4. AND BY KNOWLEDGE SHALL THE CHAMBERS BE FILLED WITH ALL PRECIOUS AND PLEASANT RICHES, the words describing not a miserly hoarding of money, but a condition of the household which speaks of a comf...
KNOWLEDGE; which in Scripture phrase includes the love and practice of that which we know....
Proverbs 24:4 knowledge H1847 rooms H2315 filled H4390 (H8735) precious H3368 pleasant H5273 riches H1952...
CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: If wicked people prosper, we should not be inclined to do as they do, nor complain of what God does in His provide...
Proverbs 24:1. _Be not envious against evil men._ Similar thoughts occur in Psalms 37:1; Psalms 73; Proverbs 17:1. Why should we envy the wicked? We are all g
_Through wisdom is an house builded._ THE SPIRITUAL EDIFICE The subject is wisdom, with its enlargements of understanding and knowledge--terms probably used to denote the expansions of the master pri...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 24:3 The images of wisdom’s benefits (A HOUSE... BUILT, ESTABLISHED, and FILLED) include material provision in addition to a blessed family life. These
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 24:5. A MAN OF KNOWLEDGE, rather “_a man of understanding_,” INCREASETH STRENGTH, literally “_maketh power strong_.” Miller translates the entire verse thus:—“_A strong man,...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 24:1 We return here to the more usual form, the tetrastich. BE NOT THOU ENVIOUS AGAINST EVIL MEN (see on Proverbs 23:17, where a similar warning is given, and comp....
Again, he continues in twenty-four in putting them together in couplets or in phrases. Be not envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. For their heart studies destruction, and their...
1 Chronicles 27:25; 1 Chronicles 29:2; 1 Kings 4:22; 2 Chronicles 26:4;...