Verse Proverbs 24:9. _THE THOUGHT OF FOOLISHNESS_ IS _SIN_] זמת אולת חטאת _zimmath ivveleth chattath_. "The device of folly is transgression;" or, "an evil purpose is sinful;" or, perhaps more literal...
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...
THOUGHT, &C. Compare Proverbs 4:23.Job 1:5.Jeremiah 4:14.Matthew 9:3; Matthew
_foolishness_ i.e. FOOLS: abstract for concrete. _and_ "Or, _but the scorner_. Perhaps the meaning is that the very _purpose_of evil is sinful in the sight of God; but the bold and insolent transgres...
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...
The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men. THE THOUGHT (HEBREW, zimat (H2154 ); LITERALLY, EVIL OR MISCHIEVOUS COUNSEL) OF FOOLISHNESS (I:E., OF THE MAN OF FOOLIS...
5. Read, 'A wise man is better than a warrior, and a man of knowledge than a man of strength.'...
This man makes evil plots. And the people hate him. They hate him because all his ideas are evil. Perhaps he wants to cause trouble. Or perhaps he wants to benefit himself unfairly. V10 If troubles m...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 24 V1 Do not be jealous of evil men. Do not try to meet them. V2
THE THOUGHT OF FOOLISHNESS IS SIN. — Rather, _Sin is the contrivance_ (_plotting_)_ of self-will._ Sin is the “transgression of the law” of God (1 John 3:4), when we desert the plain rule of duty, and...
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...
_Of a fool. In as much as he is wicked. Though he may have some pious thoughts, he attends not to them. (Haydock) --- He thinks how he may commit evil, and renders himself hateful. (Calmet) --- Hebrew...
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...
THE THOUGHTS OF FOOLISHNESS [IS] SIN,.... The thought of sin is sin e, before it comes into action; the motions of sin in the mind, the workings of corrupt nature in the heart, the sinful desires of t...
The thought of foolishness [is] sin: and the scorner [is] an abomination to men. Ver. 9. _The thought of foolishness is sin._] The schools do well observe, that outward sins are _maioris infamiae,_ o...
_He that deviseth, &c., shall be called mischievous_ Hebrew, בעל מזמות, _a master of crafts or mischiefs._ Though he cover his wicked devices with fair pretences, and wishes to be better esteemed, he...
V. 9. THE THOUGHT OF FOOLISHNESS, literally, "the meditation of folly," IS SIN, that is, even when folly tries to perform something with prudent reflection, the result is the same, a transgression of...
THE THOUGHT OF FOOLISHNESS IS SIN; the very inward thought or contrivance of evil, of which he spake PROVERBS 24:8, even before it break forth into action, it is a sin in God's sight, and it is hatefu...
Proverbs 24:9 devising H2154 foolishness H200 sin H2403 scoffer H3887 (H8801) abomination H8441 men H120 thought -
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
_The thought of foolishness is sin._ THE NATURE OF EVIL THOUGHTS I. What is meant by the “thought of foolishness”? Folly and sin signify the same thing in Scripture. We are not to understand thoughts...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 24:7. WISDOM IS TOO HIGH, etc. Delitzsch here reads, _Wisdom seems to the fool to be an ornamental commodity_, and thinks “the comparison lies in the rarity, costliness, and...
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...
2 Corinthians 10:5; Acts 8:22; Genesis 6:5; Genesis 8:21; Isaiah 55:7;...
The thought — The very inward thought or contrivance of evil, is a sin in God's sight....