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Verse Proverbs 6:13. _HE WINKETH WITH HIS EYES, HE SPEAKETH WITH HIS
FEET,_ _HE TEACHETH WITH HIS FINGERS_] These things seem to be spoken
of debauchees; and the following quotation from Ovid, Amor. l...
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CHAPTER 6
_ 1. The surety (Proverbs 6:1)_
2. The sluggard (Proverbs 6:6)
3. The naughty, good-for-nothing person (Proverbs 6:12)
4. The strange woman ...
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A section totally dissimilar from the rest of this division of Pr. It
consists of four short subsections
Proverbs 6:1 against suretyship, Proverbs 6:6 against sloth, Proverbs
6:12 against talebearing,...
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Thirteenth Address. Chap. 6. Proverbs 6:12. _The Worthless Person_
This short section might seem at first sight to break itself into two
(Proverbs 6:12). But the note of character, "he soweth discord...
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_winketh_ Comp. Proverbs 10:10; Psalms 35:19.
_speaketh_ Not only the tongue (Proverbs 6:12), but the eye, the foot
and the hand are used to make false suggestions, and to further his
deceitful design...
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HE WINKETH— It is a remark of St. Ambrose, that the mein and gesture
of the body are an image of the mind; and he was so delicate upon this
subject, that he would not ordain the son of one of his part...
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TEXT Proverbs 6:12-22
12.
A worthless person, a man of iniquity,
Is he that walketh with a perverse mouth;
13.
That winketh with his eyes, that speaketh with his feet,
That maketh signs with his...
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He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with
his fingers;
HE WINKETH WITH HIS EYES, HE SPEAKETH WITH HIS FEET, HE TEACHETH WITH
HIS FINGERS. He makes secret signs with all...
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DISSUASIVES FROM HURTFUL THINGS
Proverbs 6:1 are inserted here from some other collection, and contain
warnings against suretyships (1-5), sloth (6-11), falseness (12-15),
evils which the Lordhates (1...
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Cp. the Arab's prayer: 'O God, pardon us the culpable winking of the
eyes.' Here the winking, etc., are signals to confederates....
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 6
V1 My son, follow this advice when you make a mistake.
Perhaps you promised to pay a neighbour’s debt....
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Sometimes, an evil person is easy to identify. At other times, we must
be careful. 2 Thessalonians 2:7 mentions a ‘secret’ evil power.
The evil man in verses 12-15 is dangerous because his evil plan i...
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HE WINKETH WITH HIS EYES... — A picture, taken from the life, of a
malicious tattler and scandalmonger, who fills out his lying tale with
winks and signs, whereby even more is suggested than he says,...
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קֹרֵ֣ץ _בְּ֭_†_עֵינָיו_† מֹלֵ֣ל
_בְּ_†_רַגְלָ֑יו_† מֹ֝רֶ֗ה...
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CHAPTER 7
CERTAIN EXAMPLES OF THE BINDING CHARACTER OF OUR OWN ACTIONS
"The surety the sluggard and the worthless person." Proverbs 6:1;
Proverbs 6:6; Proverbs 6:12
FROM the solemn principle announc...
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AVOID SURETYSHIP AND SLOTH
Proverbs 6:1
A young man, being entreated by his friend to go bond for him,
consents, in an easy-going way to become his surety. He promises to be
responsible for the other...
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The parental exhortations are continued. In this section they are
directed against suretyship, indolence, the evil man, and certain
specific things which Jehovah hates. The warnings against becoming
s...
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He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he (g) teacheth
with his fingers;
(g) Thus all his gesture tends to wickedness,...
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_Finger. These signs imply haughtiness, &c., Psalm xxxiv. 19., and
Isaias lviii. 9. The posture indicates the interior sentiments, (St.
Ambrose, off. i. 18.) insomuch, that St. Ambrose would not recei...
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A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. He
winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his
fingers; Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief
conti...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 9.
There are two very distinct parts in this book. The first nine Chapter
s, which give the great general principles; and the proverbs, properly
so...
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HE WINKETH WITH HIS EYES,.... Not through natural infirmity, but
purposely and with design; with one of his eyes, as Aben Ezra, as is
usual with such persons: it is the air and gesture of a sneering a...
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He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with
his fingers;
Ver. 13. _He winketh with his eyes._] He is restless in evil, and
with his odd tricks and gesticulations seeks to sp...
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_A naughty person_ Hebrew, _a man of Belial, a wicked man_, whose
continual practice it is, in one way or other, to work wickedness;
_walketh with a froward mouth_ Makes it his business, by lies; or
f...
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WARNING AGAINST FOOLISH SURETYSHIP, IDLENESS, AND MALICE...
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He winketh with his eyes, as a signal to his companions to join him in
some act of malice, HE SPEAKETH WITH HIS FEET, giving signs with a
similar intention, HE TEACHETH WITH HIS FINGERS, hinting with...
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12-19 If the slothful are to be condemned, who do nothing, much more
those that do all the ill they can. Observe how such a man is
described. He says and does every thing artfully, and with design. H...
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He vents his wickedness, as by his speech, so also by his gestures,
whereby he secretly signifies what he is afraid or ashamed to express
openly to his accomplices, his intentions or desires of some e...
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THE WORTHLESS MAN (PROVERBS 6:12).
This first part, defining the worthless man, may be seen chiastically,
A A worthless person, a man of iniquity (Proverbs 6:12 a).
B Is he who walks with a perverse...
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THE WORTHLESS MAN (PROVERBS 6:12).
We now come to the third person in the triumvirate. The first one
committed as a surety what he did not have. He was naive. The second
was too lazy to do anything to...
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CONTENTS: Caution against rash suretiship, slothfulness, forwardness,
and whoredom.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son.
CONCLUSION: Suretiship is to be avoided, because by it poverty and
ruin are ofte...
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Proverbs 6:1. _If thou be surety for thy friend._ If charity has
gained an ascendancy over the judgment, prepare to perform thy
covenant. To aid a friend in poverty is a generous deed, it is lending
w...
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_He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with
his fingers._
SECRET WAYS OF SPEAKING
The wicked man not only his abuseth big mouth, but also his eyes,
feet, and fingers. When...
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THE RIGHT KIND OF FEET
He speaketh with his feet. Proverbs 6:13.
Feet was I to the lame. Job 29:15.
Today we are going to think about the right kind of feet; and this
time we have two texts, one i...
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 6:12 A WORTHLESS PERSON, A WICKED MAN
describes someone who lacks any desire to act righteously. DEVISES. A
worthless person’s communication comes from a pervert
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CRITICAL NOTES,—
Proverbs 6:12. A naughty person, “a worthless man.”
PROVERBS 6:13. TEACHETH, “motions.”
PROVERBS 6:14. FROWARDNESS, “perverseness.”...
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 6:1
The sixth chapter embraces four distinct discourses, each of which is
a warning. The subjects treated of are
(1) suretyship (Proverbs 6:1);
(2) sloth ...
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Now let us turn to Proverbs, chapter 6. The first part of the Proverbs
is exhortation to my son. It's just good fatherly advice to sons. And
chapter 6 continues in these exhortations that are opened b...
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Job 15:12; Proverbs 10:10; Proverbs 5:6; Psalms 35:19...