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See the Proverbs 6:11 note....
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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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POVERTY. need. Hebrew. _rush._ See note on Proverbs 6:11.
AN ARMED MAN. a man with. shield....
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_one that travelleth_ Rather, A ROBBER. See Proverbs 6:11, note....
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The Sluggard's Vineyard. Comp. Proverbs 6:6-11, and notes....
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DISCOURSE: 808
THE SLUGGARD’S VINEYARD
Proverbs 24:30. I went by the field of the slothful, and by the
vineyard of the man void of understanding: and, lo, it was all grown
over with thorns, and nettle...
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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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Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands
to sleep:
Compare the same, Proverbs 6:10.
SO SHALL THY POVERTY COME AS ONE THAT TRAVELETH; AND THY WANT AS AN
ARMED MAN. 'At fi...
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24:34 plunderer, (a-9) Or 'a tramp,' as ch. 6.11....
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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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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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There ought to be crops in this field. But the lazy man did not sow
any seed.
There ought to be food in this garden. But the lazy man did not look
after the food plants.
Now the garden is wild. Now...
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AS ONE THAT TRAVELLETH. — See above on Proverbs 6:11....
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וּ בָֽא ־מִתְהַלֵּ֥ךְ רֵישֶׁ֑ךָ וּ֝
מַחְסֹרֶ֗יךָ...
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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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REFLECTIONS.
MY soul! while thou art pondering over the very many sweet and
precious sayings in this chapter, hast thou not found thine heart
warmed within thee, by Jesus speaking to thee by the way,...
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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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SO SHALL THY POVERTY COME [AS] ONE THAT TRAVELLETH,.... Swiftly and
suddenly, both in a temporal and spiritual sense;
Proverbs 6:11;
AND THY WANT AS AN ARMED MAN; irresistibly. Here ends according t...
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So shall thy poverty come [as] one that travelleth; and thy want as an
armed man.
Ver. 34. _So shall thy poverty come._] Swiftly and irresistibly.
Seneca calls sloth the nurse of beggary - the mother...
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_I went by the field of the slothful_ For the counsel intended to be
conveyed by this paragraph, see note on Proverbs 6:6. _I looked upon
it and received instruction_ I learned wisdom by his folly, an...
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V. 34. SO SHALL THY POVERTY COME AS ONE THAT TRAVELETH, AND THY WANT,
the need of money and of all necessaries of life, AS AN ARMED MAN,
literally, "one armed with a shield. " cf Proverbs 6:10....
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AN ARMED MAN:
_ Heb._ a man of shield...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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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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_I went by the field of the slothful._
THE MORAL SLUGGARD
Take these words as a pointed reproof of the negligent and immoral
head of a family. The cause of prevailing irreligion is the deplorable
ne...
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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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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 24:30 These verses illustrate how proverbs
are applied. Upon walking by a FIELD and VINEYARD that has fallen into
ruin through laziness (vv....
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_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Proverbs 24:30_
THE SLUGGARD’S VINEYARD
I. WE HAVE HERE A PRECIOUS POSSESSION IN THE HANDS OF AN UNWORTHY
PROPRIETOR. A vineyard is not a heritage of little or no...
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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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Proverbs 10:4; Proverbs 13:4...