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Verse Proverbs 24:28. _BE NOT A WITNESS_] Do not be forward to offer
thyself to bear testimony against a neighbour, in a matter which may
prejudice him, where the essential claims of justice do not re...
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DECEIVE NOT WITH THY LIPS - Better, wilt thou deceive with thy lips?...
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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...
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SECOND DIVISION, PROVERBS 24:23.
This section constitutes the second division of the Sayings of the
Wise, as Proverbs 24:23 a indicates. It contains a short collection of
sayings varying in form and...
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DECEIVE. Hebrew. _pathah._ See note on Proverbs 11:18....
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TEXT Proverbs 24:23-34
23.
These also are sayings of the wise.
To have respect of persons in judgment is not good.
24.
He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous,
Peoples shall curse him,...
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Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not
with thy lips. BE NOT A WITNESS AGAINST THY NEIGHBOUR WITHOUT CAUSE -
falsely, or even frivolously, without sure ground for thy a...
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5. Read, 'A wise man is better than a warrior, and a man of knowledge
than a man of strength.'...
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This is in opposition to the ancient law of retaliation (Exodus 21:23;
Leviticus 24:17; Deuteronomy 19:21)....
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 24
V1 Do not be jealous of evil men.
Do not try to meet them.
V2
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If you speak false evidence against your neighbour, your attitudes are
wrong. You should not be opposing your neighbour without a proper
reason. If your neighbour is guilty, then God will punish your...
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WITHOUT CAUSE — _i.e._, do not mention thy neighbour’s faults
unless for some good reason, not for malice or love of gossip....
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אַל ־תְּהִ֣י עֵד ־חִנָּ֣ם בְּ רֵעֶ֑ךָ
וַ֝
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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...
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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...
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_Cause, and necessity. Septuagint, "be not a false witness against thy
fellow-citizen."_...
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Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field;
and afterwards build thine house. Be not a witness against thy
neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips. Say not, I
wi...
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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...
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BE NOT A WITNESS AGAINST THY NEIGHBOUR WITHOUT CAUSE,.... Unless
forced unto it, except there is some urgent reason for it; not upon
any trivial account, or in any frivolous matter; never appear forwa...
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Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive
[not] with thy lips.
Ver. 28. _Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause._] That
is, Without calling, being not thereunto...
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_Be not witness against thy neighbour_ Either in judgment or in
private conversation; _without cause_ Rashly or falsely, without just
and sufficient cause; _and deceive not with thy lips_ Neither thy...
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V. 28. BE NOT A WITNESS AGAINST THY NEIGHBOR WITHOUT CAUSE, without
reason and need, out of pure animosity; AND DECEIVE NOT WITH THY LIPS,
rather in the form of a question, "And shouldest thou practic...
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BE NOT A WITNESS AGAINST THY NEIGHBOUR, either in judgment or in
private conversation, without cause; rashly or falsely, without just
and sufficient cause. DECEIVE NOT neither thy neighbour, to whom t...
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Proverbs 24:28 witness H5707 neighbor H7453 cause H2600 deceive H6601
(H8765) lips H8193
not -...
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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...
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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
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_Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause._
THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF FALSE WITNESS
There is nothing more dear and valuable to men than their reputation
or good name. It is a mark of an ab...
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 24:23 Further Sayings of “the Wise.”
(See note on 22:17–24:22.) These sayings are grouped in a parallel
fashion, as follows:...
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_MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 24:28_
AN UNCALLED-FOR TESTIMONY
I. THERE ARE TIMES AND CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH IT IS OUR DUTY TO
WITNESS AGAINST OUR NEIGHBOUR. When the interests of right and truth
are...
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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....
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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...
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1 Kings 21:9; 1 Samuel 22:10; 1 Samuel 22:9; Colossians 3:9;...