Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Proverbs 3:20
The depths — That great abyss contained in the bowels of the earth, breaks forth into fountains and rivers.
The depths — That great abyss contained in the bowels of the earth, breaks forth into fountains and rivers.
Verse Proverbs 3:20. _BY HIS KNOWLEDGE THE DEPTHS ARE BROKEN UP_] He determined in his wisdom how to _break up_ the _fountains of the_ _great deep_, so as to _bring a flood of waters upon the earth_;...
Compare Genesis 1:7; Genesis 7:11; Job 38. Looking upon the face of Nature, men see two storehouses of the living water, without which it would be waste and barren. From the “depths” rush forth the su...
CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The call and promise of wisdom (Proverbs 3:1)_ 2. Happy is the man that findeth wisdom (Proverbs 3:11) 3. Promise and instruction (Proverbs 3:21)...
FOURTH Discourse. The sage exhorts the young man to heed his oral instruction (_torah),_ and to trust in Yahweh, fear Him, and honour Him in the prescribed manner of firstfruits. It is interesting to...
CLOUDS, &C.. skies. DEW. night mist. See note on Psalms 133:3. "Dew" falls only when there are no clouds....
_are_ Rather, WERE _broken up_, R.V. The reference is to Genesis 7:2, where the same Heb. word is used: "all the foundations of the great deep were broken up." The two clauses of the verse give two t...
THE LORD BY WISDOM, &C.— See Job 38:4; Job 38:41. The effects which we call natural are the productions of the Creator's sovereign wisdom. Some understand by _the depths broken up,_ the waters of the...
TEXT Proverbs 3:13-26 13. Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, And the man that getteth understanding. 14. For the gaining of it is better than the gaining of silver, And the profit thereof tha...
By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew. BY HIS KNOWLEDGE THE DEPTHS ARE BROKEN UP - into rivers and streams for the refreshment of man (; Job 38:8; Psalms 104:8...
3:20 up, (a-8) Or 'were torn up.' see Genesis 7:11 ; or 'burst forth.'...
THE BLESSINGS OF OBEDIENCE AND OF CHASTISEMENT The first and third divisions, 1-10, 21-35, are exhortations to good conduct and promises of consequent blessing. The second, 11-20, declares the profit...
THE DEPTHS, etc.] i.e. the subterranean storehouses from which fountains and rivers were supposed to be derived....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 3 V1 My son, do not forget my law. Keep my commands in your heart. v
ARE BROKEN UP. — Or, _burst forth:_ the word used in Genesis 7:11 of the breaking forth of the waters from the interior of the earth at the flood. (Comp. Job 38:8.) DROP DOWN THE DEW. — Of great impo...
בְּ֭ דַעְתֹּו תְּהֹומֹ֣ות נִבְקָ֑עוּ וּ֝ שְׁחָקִ֗ים...
CHAPTER 10 TWO VOICES IN THE HIGH PLACES OF THE CITY Proverbs 9:1, Proverbs 20:14 with Proberbs 3, and Proverbs 20:16 with Prove
WISDOM'S WAYS OF PLEASANTNESS Proverbs 3:13-26 Wisdom is susceptible of cultivation. It is a _mine_ that needs to be worked with patient toil. Compare Proverbs 3:13-15 with Job 28:18. It is comparab...
As the former address had to do with the search for wisdom, this, in view of the value of if is an appeal to cultivate wisdom. The appeal consists of a declaration of its essence (verses Pro 3:1-10),...
_Out. The higher and lower waters being divided, (Calmet) or the channels formed to receive the waters. (Piscator) --- It may also speak of the deluge. (Ven. Bede) --- With. Hebrew, "have distilled de...
The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens. By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew. There is another confirmation...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 9. There are two very distinct parts in this book. The first nine Chapter s, which give the great general principles; and the proverbs, properly so...
BY HIS KNOWLEDGE THE DEPTHS ARE BROKEN UP,.... From whence fountains and rivers flow, and whereby that great cavity was made which holds that large confluence of waters called the sea, Genesis 1:9. So...
_By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew._ Ver. 20. _The depths are broken up,_] viz., Those great channels and hollow places made in the earth, to hold the waters...
_The Lord by wisdom_, &c. From human wisdom, or wisdom attainable by man, of which Solomon had hitherto treated, he now digresses to divine; thereby insinuating that it ought not to seem strange that...
THE HAPPINESS OF POSSESSING TRUE WISDOM...
By his knowledge the depths are broken up, the seas did divide, breaking forth from the chaotic mass of formless matter and occupying their fixed places, AND THE CLOUDS DROP DOWN THE DEW, the rain sti...
13-20 No precious jewels or earthly treasures are worthy to be compared with true wisdom, whether the concerns of time or eternity be considered. We must make wisdom our business; we must venture all...
THE DEPTHS ARE BROKEN UP; that great abyss or depth of waters, which was mixed with and contained in the bowels of the earth, did break forth into fountains and rivers for the use of men and beasts; w...
Proverbs 3:20 knowledge H1847 depths H8415 up H1234 (H8738) clouds H7834 down H7491 (H8799) dew H2919...
YHWH AS CHASTENING FATHER AND WISE CREATOR INCULCATES WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING AS A TREE OF LIFE TO THOSE WHOM HE LOVES (PROVERBS 3:11). The reference to ‘my son' in Proverbs 3:11 (although in the Heb...
CONTENTS: The power of true wisdom to make men both blessed and a blessing. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: Those who have a continual regard to God's precepts and put themselves unde...
Proverbs 3:2. _Length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee._ The premature death denounced against the profligate, and the victims of the harlot, shall be far from thy dwelling. T...
_The clouds drop down the dew._ THE SEA NIGHT-MIST OF PALESTINE There is a very remarkable and regular provision of Nature, peculiar to Bible lands, which may be observed in a first sight of Palestin...
_Happy is the man that findeth wisdom._ WISDOM I. The pleasures of wisdom. 1. Present happiness. 2. Lasting happiness. II. The preciousness of wisdom (Proverbs 3:14). Many figures are employed to...
_My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments._ USEFUL PRECEPTS AND INSPIRING MOTIVES I. To remember and keep in our hearts the things written in this book (Proverbs 3:1). Int...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 3:19 God has built the principles of WISDOM into the way the world works. Wisdom keeps the world from descending into chaos. Thus, when one lives without integrity, one viola...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 3:20. DEPTHS, &c., “were the floods divided” into rivers and streams for the blessing of man. DEW, or “gentle rain,” or else the clouds signify the lower regions of the atmo...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 3:1 4. _Fourth admonitory discourse. _The third chapter introduces us to a group of admonitions, and the first of these (Proverbs 3:1) forms the fourth admonitory discourse of the...
Chapter 3 continues to My son, forget not my law; but let your heart keep my commandments: For length of days, long life, peace, shall they add to thee (Proverbs 3:1-2). Now these are the three. And...
Deuteronomy 33:28; Genesis 1:9; Genesis 27:28; Genesis 27:37; Ge
SEEKING AFTER WISDOM Proverbs 3:13 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The wise man versus the foolish man. Many a man who thinks himself to be wise is a fool. Why? Because he is building his hopes upon the sand....