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Verse Proverbs 27:24. _FOR RICHES_ ARE _NOT FOR EVER_] All other kinds
of property are very transitory. Money and the highest civil honours
are but for a short season. Flocks and herds, properly atten...
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The verses sing the praises of the earlier patriarchal life, with its
flocks and herds, and tillage of the ground, as compared with the
commerce of a later time, with money as its chief or only wealth...
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V. INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN TO SOLOMON
In the three Chapter s which follow 27-29 we find the change we have
noticed before. These proverbs are addressed to a person and the
phrases “My son” and the persona...
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A collection of aphorisms on various subjects.
PROVERBS 27:3. _cf._ Sir_22:14 f. The comparison suggests that
vexation is out of place. It is the fool that is a bore, not his
anger.
Proverbs 27:4 a...
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RICHES. Consisted mainly in flocks and herds....
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FOR RICHES ARE NOT FOR EVER, &C.— See Hiller. pars 2: p. 9. The
author of the Observations remarks, that _milk_ is a great part of the
diet of the eastern people. Their _goats_ furnish them with some...
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TEXT Proverbs 27:19-27
19.
As in water face answereth face,
So the heart of man to man.
20.
Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied;
And the eyes of man are never satisfied.
21.
The refining pot...
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For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every
generation?
FOR RICHES ARE NOT FOREVER - therefore they are not to be depended on
to the neglect of thy flocks. Israel's chief wealth...
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SUNDRY OBSERVATIONS. AGRICULTURE
4. Envy] a husband's jealousy is meant (Song of Solomon 8:6).
5, 6. Men 'hide' (RV) love when they refrain from telling a friend his
faults. An enemy will be 'profus...
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Riches and honour (THE CROWN) are fleeting: attention to field and
flock are profitable....
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Solomon is describing a farm. He warns the farmer to be responsible.
If the farmer does not work, he could lose his land. But if the farmer
works hard, his family will be content. The sheep and goats...
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 27
V1 Do not become proud about your plans for tomorrow.
You do not know what will happen tomorrow....
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FOR RICHES ARE NOT FOR EVER. — Comp. Proverbs 23:5. So it is well to
have a sure source of income, like husbandry or cattle-feeding, upon
which to fall back....
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כִּ֤י לֹ֣א לְ עֹולָ֣ם חֹ֑סֶן וְ אִם
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CHAPTER 28
LIVING DAY BY DAY
"Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day will
bring forth."- Proverbs 27:1
"The grave and destruction are never satisfied; and the eyes of men
ar...
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Verse Proverbs 27:5. This proverb takes for granted the need for
rebuke, and by 'love that is hidden" is meant a love which fails to
rebuke.
Verse Proverbs 27:14. There is nothing more calculated to...
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_Generation. Thou wilt be cited as an example of prudence, if thou
hast forseen the change of thy affairs, and provided for it. In the
east it was not unusual to see a general of an army reduced to th...
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My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that
reproacheth me. A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself;
but the simple pass on, and are punished. Take his garment tha...
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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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FOR RICHES [ARE] NOT FOR EVER,.... A man cannot be assured of the
continuance of them; they are uncertain things, here today and gone
tomorrow: wherefore, though a man has a considerable share of them...
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For riches [are] not for ever: and doth the crown [endure] to every
generation?
Ver. 24. _For riches endure not for ever._] Whether they be riches of
inheritance or of purchase, they will waste witho...
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_Be diligent to know the state of thy flock_ That thou mayest preserve
and improve what thou hast, and take care that thy expenses do not
exceed thy income. Flocks and herds are here put for all riche...
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For riches are not forever, they are unstable and must therefore be
carefully looked after; AND DOTH THE CROWN ENDURE TO EVERY GENERATION?
Even the king is not sure that his royal dignity and power wi...
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WISDOM AND HUMILITY GO HAND IN HAND...
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HERE THE SUBJECT matter is completely changed. No longer is the
outside opposition of the enemy found, but any dangers now considered
are those arising from the state of our own hearts. This third sec...
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RICHES:
_ Heb._ strength
TO EVERY GENERATION?:
_ Heb._ to generation and generation...
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RICHES; or, _treasure_. The sense is, What thou dust now possess, or
hast laid up, will not last always, but will soon be spent, if thou
dost not take care to preserve and improve it. THE CROWN; by wh...
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Proverbs 27:1. _Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not
what a day may bring forth._
Let us never boast of future days and years, or what we mean to do
when we come to any age, or what sh...
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CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions.
CHARACTERS: Solomon, his son.
CONCLUSION: (Principal lesson.) Use the present time with diligence
and wisdom and presume not upon tomorrow. We should speak of th...
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Proverbs 27:2. _Let another man praise thee._ A man is sometimes
compelled to speak of himself. But modesty often prefers speaking in
the third person; as St. John, who says, “that disciple whom Jesus...
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_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Proverbs 27:23_
MODEL FARMING
These words were especially applicable to the Israelitish people in
their early history, when every family lived upon its own domain...
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 27:1
These verses are grouped in pairs, each two being connected in
subject.
PROVERBS 27:1
BOAST NOT THYSELF OF TOMORROW. He boasts himself ...
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Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may
bring foRuth (Proverbs 27:1).
Very good. This is, of course, the idea is taken up in the New
Testament book of James. He said, "Go t...
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1 Timothy 6:17; 1 Timothy 6:18; 2 Samuel 7:16; Isaiah 9:7; James 1:10;
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MAKING THE MOST OF LIFE
Proverbs 27:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
God has given to each of us a life freighted with many privileges and
with many opportunities. There is a little verse in the New Testament
w...
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For — What thou dost now possess, will not last always. If a man had
the wealth of a kingdom, without care and diligence it would be
brought to nothing....