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Compare Ecclus. 22:15; a like comparison between the heaviest material
burdens and the more intolerable load of unreasoning passion....
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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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FOOL'S. Hebrew. _'evil._ See note on Proverbs 1:7.
THEM. Should be "they"....
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Comp. Sir 22:15....
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CHAPTER 27
TEXT Proverbs 27:1-9
1.
Boast not thyself of tomorrow;
For thou knowest now what a day may bring forth.
2.
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth;
A stranger, and not th...
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A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier
than them both.
A STONE ... THE SAND ... A FOOL'S WRATH IS HEAVIER THAN THEM BOTH -
both to himself and to others. Wrath is ma...
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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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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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The anger of the fool (evil person) causes great strain. But a good
person should not be angry. See Ephesians 4:31. Instead, a good person
should forgive other people’s errors. (Ephesians 4:32)...
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BUT A FOOL’S WRATH IS HEAVIER THAN THEM BOTH — _i.e.,_ harder to
bear. (Comp. Sir. 12:15.) The “fool” here (_evil_) is the
headstrong, self-willed person. who has never learned to control
himself, but...
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כֹּֽבֶד ־אֶ֭בֶן וְ נֵ֣טֶל הַ חֹ֑ול וְ
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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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“HEARTY COUNSEL”
Proverbs 27:1-22
The keyword in this paragraph is _friends_, Proverbs 27:6; Proverbs
27:9-10; Proverbs 27:14; Proverbs 27:17; Proverbs 19:1-29.
Friends, according to the original se...
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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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_Both. He is insupportable to himself and to others, Ecclesiasticus
xxii. 17._...
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Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and
not thine own lips. A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a
fool's wrath is heavier than them both. Wrath is cruel, and ange...
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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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A STONE [IS] HEAVY, AND THE SAND WEIGHTY,.... As was the stone which
was at the well's mouth, where Laban's flocks were watered, which
could not be rolled away till all the shepherds were gathered
tog...
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A stone [is] heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath [is]
heavier than them both.
Ver. 3. But a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.] Himself cannot
rule nor repress it, but that he dies o...
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_A stone is heavy, &c., but a fool's wrath is heavier_ More grievous
and intolerable, as being without cause, without measure, and without
end. “Fools and unskilful people,” says Melancthon, “are more...
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A stone is heavy and the sand weighty, literally, "weight of stone and
heaviness of sand"; BUT A FOOL'S WRATH IS HEAVIER THAN THEM BOTH, both
unreasonable and excessive, a burden to himself and others...
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EXALTATION OF SELF LEADS TO FOLLY...
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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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HEAVY:
_ Heb._ heaviness...
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HEAVIER; more grievous and intolerable, as being without cause,
without measure, and without end....
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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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_Sand weighty._
THE WEIGHT OF SAND
By a fool this book means, not so much intellectual feebleness as
moral and religious obliquity, which are the stupidest things that a
man can be guilty of. The pro...
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 27:3 Both proverbs have the same pattern
(two items mentioned for comparison’s sake, followed by a single
item that is worse than both of them). Together, the proverbs sugges...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 27:4. Delitzsch reads this verse “_The madness of anger and
the overflowing of wrath, and before jealousy who keeps his place?_”
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 27:3_
WRATH A...
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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 John 3:12; 1 Samuel 22:18; 1 Samuel 22:19; Daniel 3:19; Esther 3:5;...
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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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Heavier — More grievous, being without cause, without measure, and
without end....