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CHAPTER 14 THE WISE AND THE FOOLISH: THE RICH AND THE POOR
The contrast now concerns the wise and the foolish, the rich and the
poor. Let us see some of these contrasts. “In the mouth of the
foolish i...
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PROVERBS 14. In this, as in each of the preceding Chapter s in this
section, aphorisms on the moral government of the world come first in
number. There are rather more in this chapter of a political a...
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MERCY. lovingkindness, or grace....
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The LXX. add:
They understand not mercy and faith who are devisers of evil,
But things merciful and faithful are with them who devise good....
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TEXT Proverbs 14:13-24
13.
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful;
And the end of mirth is heaviness.
14.
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways;
And a good man shall be sati...
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Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to
them that devise good.
DO THEY NOT ERR THAT DEVISE EVIL? BUT MERCY AND TRUTH (SHALL BE) TO
THEM THAT DEVISE GOOD. Those who employ...
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14:22 devise (l-6) Or 'meditate.'...
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1. The prosperity of the family depends on the wife (Proverbs 31:10)....
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They wander from the way of safety and peace....
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 14
V1 The wise woman builds her house.
The foolish woman pulls down her own house with her own hands....
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Life is like a journey. A person who plots evil deeds is like a
traveller on the wrong road. The traveller’s road might lead to
danger. And the evil man’s life will cause his death. And his evil
life...
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DO THEY NOT ERR THAT DEVISE EVIL? — Comp. Wis. 5:6-7.
MERCY AND TRUTH. — God will be merciful, and also fulfil His
promises of protection and reward to them (Wis. 3:9)....
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הֲֽ לֹוא ־יִ֭תְעוּ חֹ֣רְשֵׁי רָ֑ע וְ
חֶ֥סֶד
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CHAPTER 15
THE INWARD UNAPPROACHABLE LIFE
"The heart knoweth its own bitterness and a stranger doth not
intermeddle with its joy."- Proverbs 14:10
"Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful, and the...
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Verse Proverbs 14:7. The sense of this proverb is entirely altered in
the Revision. The Authorized reading would make it mean that if a man
is perceived to be devoid of knowledge he should be abandone...
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_Truth. Those who are kind and faithful. (Haydock) (Chap. iii. 3.) ---
Septuagint add, (Calmet) as a second version, (Grabe) "the workers of
evils understand not mercy and truth: but kind and faithful...
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He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the
poor, happy is he. Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and
truth shall be to them that devise good. In all labour there i...
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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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DO THEY NOT ERR THAT DEVISE EVIL?.... Certainly they do; they go
astray from the right way, from the word of truth, from the Gospel of
Christ, who contrive schemes to commit sin, and do mischief to th...
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Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth [shall be] to
them that devise good.
Ver. 22. _Do they not err that devise evil?_] Heb., That plough it
and plot it, that dig it and delve it, th...
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V. 22. DO THEY NOT ERR THAT DEVISE EVIL, who foolishly go astray and
bring misfortune upon themselves ? BUT MERCY AND TRUTH, in the favor
of God and the fulfillment of all His promises of love, SHALL...
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DO THEY NOT ERR? they do certainly err from the right way, and mistake
their mark, and shall miss of that advantage and felicity which they
promise to themselves by such practices. THAT DEVISE; that d...
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Proverbs 14:22 astray H8582 (H8799) devise H2790 (H8802) evil H7451
mercy H2617 truth H571 devise H2790 ...
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THE TRIUMPH OF TRUTH OVER FALSEHOOD AND OF RIGHTEOUSNESS OVER
UNRIGHTEOUSNESS (PROVERBS 14:17).
The thought of truth against falsehood undergirds this subsection. It
commences with the fact that fools...
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CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: The house of the wicked, though built ever so strong and
high, shall be brought to disgrace and at length made extinct. The...
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Proverbs 14:1. _Every wise woman buildeth her house,_ as Proverbs 9:1,
by training up her children to industry, piety and virtue. She is
their first governess, and daily instils the elements of knowle...
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_Do they not err that devise evil?_
THE GRIEVOUS ERROR OF DEVISING EVIL
How difficult is the task to convince any human being that he has
mistaken the road to happiness! He would say, “No man can jud...
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_MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 14:22_
A FATAL ERROR AND A CERTAIN GOOD
I. THE MISTAKE OF DEVISERS OF EVIL.
1. _They err in relation to the success of their plans_. They think
that their wicked devices...
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 14:1
EVERY WISE WOMAN BUILDETH HER HOUSE. Wise women order well their
household matters and their families; they have an important
influence, and exercise it beneficially.
Γυναι...
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Continuation of the contrasting of goodness and evil.
Every wise woman (Proverbs 14:1)
And wise and foolish contrasted always, too.
Every wise woman builds her house (Proverbs 14:1):
She takes care...
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2 Chronicles 6:8; Genesis 24:27; Isaiah 32:7; Isaiah 32:8; John 1:17;...