EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries
Proverbs 23:30
The writer tells us what is wrong. These people drank too much wine. Alcohol tempted them. This is terrible, he argues.
The writer tells us what is wrong. These people drank too much wine. Alcohol tempted them. This is terrible, he argues.
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...
WINE. Hebrew. _yayin._ App-27. MIXED WINE. Hebrew. _mimsak._ App-27....
_seek_ There is a touch of irony (_non caret sale_, Maur.) in the use of a word in such a connection, which is used elsewhere of the diligent search for wisdom (Job 28:27), or other noble objects (Psa...
TEXT Proverbs 23:24-35 24. The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him. 25. Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that...
They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. THEY THAT TARRY LONG AT THE WINE - (.) GO TO SEEK - implying their eagerness in searching for choice wine and for convivial mee...
23:30 long (i-5) Or 'late.'...
SEEK] RV 'seek out,' try it thoroughly. MIXED WINE] see on Proverbs 9:2....
1. RV 'him that is before thee.' Do not excite his contempt....
THEY THAT GO TO SEEK MIXED WINE. — Or, _To test;_ to see whether it is to their taste. The wines of the ancients were not generally drunk pure, but diluted with water or flavoured with spices. (See ab...
לַֽ † מְאַחֲרִ֥ים עַל ־הַ יָּ֑יִן לַ֝...
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...
They that tarry long at the wine; they that go (n) to seek mixed wine. (n) Who by art make wine stronger and more pleasant....
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...
THEY THAT TARRY LONG AT THE WINE,.... At drinking it. Do not care to stir from it when at it; spend whole days and nights in it, and are overcome by it, and so bring upon them all the above evils; TH...
They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. Ver. 30. _They that tarry long at the wine._] These men do not want time, but waste it. Pliny, if he were alive, would surely say to...
_Who hath wo?_ From the sin of lewdness, he proceeds to that of drunkenness, which frequently accompanies it. As if he had said, If thou intendest to avoid such filthy practices, avoid intemperance; t...
V. 30. THEY THAT TARRY LONG AT THE WINE, being engaged regularly in drinking it; THEY THAT GO TO SEEK MIXED WINE, the strong spiced liquor whose inebriating effects were even worse than that of wine....
Either mixed with water, or with other ingredients, to make it strong and delicious. Heb. _mixture_; mixed drinks of several sorts suited to their palates....
Proverbs 23:30 long H309 (H8764) wine H3196 go H935 (H8802) mixed H2713 (H8800) wine H4469 tarry -
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...
_They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine._ THE WOES OF THE DRUNKARD The ugly sketch given here should be enough to warn all young people against tampering with a vice which...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 23:30. MIXED WINE—_i.e._, wine mixed with strong spices. PROVERBS 23:31. WHEN IT GIVETH HIS COLOUR, etc., literally, “When it showeth its eye.” This may refer to its _bright...
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...
Amos 6:6; Ephesians 5:18; Genesis 9:21; Isaiah 5:11; Proverbs 20:1;...
Mixt wine — Either mixed with water, or with other ingredients to make it strong and delicious....