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Verse Proverbs 15:22. _BUT IN THE MULTITUDE OF COUNSELLORS_] Proverbs
11:14. But רב יועצים _rob yoatsim_ might be translated, chief
or master of the council, the prime minister....
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COUNSELLORS - The Hebrew word, used almost as an official title 1
Chronicles 27:32; Isaiah 1:26; Isaiah 19:11, brings before us the
picture of the council-chamber of Eastern countries, arranged
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CHAPTER 15 THE BETTER THINGS
One can read through the proverbs recorded in this chapter and ask the
question, What are the better things?
A soft answer which turneth away wrath is better than grievou...
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PROVERBS 15. This chapter makes no new departure. Proverbs concerning
the moral government of the world again occupy the chief place. One
(Proverbs 15:11) is noteworthy as showing an extended concepti...
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TEXT Proverbs 15:12-22
12.
A scoffer loveth not to be reproved;
He will not go unto the wise.
13.
A glad heart maketh a cheerful countenance;
But by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.
14.
T...
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Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of
counsellors they are established.
WITHOUT COUNSEL (HEBREW, SOD-LITERALLY, SECRET COUNSEL) PURPOSES ARE
DISAPPOINTED: BUT IN THE M...
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1. GRIEVOUS] i.e. annoying. 'If one pour in hot water let the other
pour in cold.'...
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 15
V1 A quiet answer reduces anger.
But an impatient word increases anger....
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Many people do not like to receive advice. Perhaps they are proud and
so they do not like to hear other people’s ideas. If you do not
obtain advice, then your plans will often fail.
We should not mak...
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הָפֵ֣ר מַ֭חֲשָׁבֹות בְּ אֵ֣ין סֹ֑וד
וּ בְ
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CHAPTER 16
A PASSIONATE DISPOSITION
"A soft answer turneth away wrath: but a grievous word stirreth up
anger." In the LXX there is another clause inserted at the beginning.-
Proverbs 15:1
"A meek t...
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WORDS IN SEASON
Proverbs 15:18-33
Learn to be slow to anger. This paragraph describes the even temper
which is blessed to live with and blessed to die with. Temper is said
to be nine-tenths of Christ...
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Verse Proverbs 15:11. This is a simple method of drawing attention to
God's perfect knowledge of all the deepest and hidden things. If that
which is most full of mystery to us is perfectly known to Hi...
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Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but (f) in the multitude of
counsellors they are established.
(f) Read (Proverbs 11:14)....
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_Counsel. Hebrew, "secrecy." --- Established. We put in execution
without fear, what has been resolved maturely. (Calmet)_...
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A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger
appeaseth strife. The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of
thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain. A wise son maketh
a...
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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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WITHOUT COUNSEL PURPOSES ARE DISAPPOINTED,.... If a man determines and
resolves upon a matter, and at once hastily and precipitately goes
about it, without mature deliberation, without consulting with...
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_Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of
counsellors they are established._
Ver. 22. _Without counsel purposes are disappointed._] The word here
rendered "counsel" signifie...
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_Without counsel_ When men do not seek, or will not receive advice
from others in weighty affairs; _purposes are disappointed_ Their
designs are ill managed, and succeed accordingly; _but in the
multi...
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V. 22. WITHOUT COUNSEL, PURPOSES ARE DISAPPOINTED, plans are sure to
fail if they have not been considered carefully and from every angle
in advance; BUT IN THE MULTITUDE OF COUNSELORS THEY ARE ESTABL...
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WITHOUT COUNSEL, when men do not seek or will not receive advice from
others in weighty affairs, PURPOSES ARE DISAPPOINTED; their designs
are ill managed, and succeed accordingly. IN THE MULTITUDE OF...
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Proverbs 15:22 counsel H5475 plans H4284 awry H6565 (H8687) multitude
H7230 counselors H3289 (H8802) established H6
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INTRODUCTION TO PART 2 (PROVERBS 15:22).
The first part of this collection of Solomon's proverbs commenced with
a reference to the father and the mother as being a young man's guide
(Proverbs 10:1). T...
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CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: The course of the wicked man is an abomination to God,
neither is there any offering he can make to God that can be accepte...
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Proverbs 15:1. _A soft answer turneth away wrath._ It bows to the
tempest, it names a mitigating circumstance, it gives a favourable
turn to misconstruction, it proposes a better way. My father, said...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 15:21. WALKETH UPRIGHTLY, rather “goes straightforward.”
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 15:21_
OPPOSITE TASTES
I. JOY IS A REVEALER OF HUMAN CHARACTER. A stone cast into a l...
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 15:1
A SOFT ANSWER TURNETH AWAY WRATH. Two things are here to be observed:
an answer should be given—the injured person should not wrap himself
in sullen silence; and that answer...
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Fifteen. I love this first one here.
A soft answer turns away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger
(Proverbs 15:1).
How oftentimes a person comes just raging and a soft answer turns away
wrath. If...
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Ecclesiastes 8:6; Proverbs 11:14; Proverbs 20:18...
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Counsel — When men do not seek, or will not receive advice from
others....