Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Proverbs 16:8
Better. See note on Proverbs 8:11.
Better. See note on Proverbs 8:11.
CHAPTER 16 IN THE LIGHT OF THE LORD The name Jehovah (LORD) appears eleven times in this chapter of Proverbs. The Lord has the final word, for to man belong the preparations (or plans) of the heart; b...
PROVERBS 16. The special feature is a group of aphorisms (Proverbs 16:10) relating to kings. The sentiments seem rather to reflect the picture of the ideal king than to indicate any particular period....
_without right_ Rather, WITH INJUSTICE, R.V., as preserving better the parallelism. Comp. Proverbs 15:16....
CHAPTER 16 TEXT Proverbs 16:1-11 1. The plans of the heart belong to man; But the answer of the tongue is from Jehovah. 2. All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; But Jehovah weigheth t...
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right. BETTER IS A LITTLE WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS, THAN GREAT REVENUES WITHOUT RIGHT - (.) "Better:" for the tranquility of conscience,...
1-9. God's control of human life....
Most Christians are not wealthy. See 1 Corinthians 1:26. We may have few possessions. However, we should earn our money fairly. God helps the poor man who is honest. God will punish the rich man who i...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 16 The subject of the book now begins to change. In earlier Chapter s, the main subject is the difference between wise actions and evil action...
טֹוב ־מְ֭עַט בִּ צְדָקָ֑ה מֵ רֹ֥ב תְּ֝בוּאֹ֗ו
CHAPTER 17 A JUST BALANCE "A just balance and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are His work."- Proverbs 16:11 "A false balance is an abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is H...
CHAPTER 29 AN ASPECT OF ATONEMENT "He that hideth his transgressions shall not prosper; but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall obtain mercy."- Proverbs 28:13 "Happy is the man that feareth...
Verse Proverbs 16:1. A somewhat obscure proverb which recognizes that man has to exercise his own reason in making his plans, but that he is dependent on the Lord for the answer of the tongue. Dr. Per...
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right. A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps. A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth trans...
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...
BETTER [IS] A LITTLE WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS,.... Gotten in a righteous way, held by a righteous claim, used in a righteous manner, attended with a life of righteousness and holiness; and also along with a...
Better [is] a little with righteousness than great revenues without right. Ver. 8. _Better is a little with righteousness, &c._] A small stock well gotten is more comfortably enjoyed and bequeathed t...
_Better is a little_, &c. A small estate, honestly gotten and usefully employed, is much to be preferred before vast incomes, gathered by oppression, and kept without the exercise of mercy and charity...
V. 8. BETTER IS A LITTLE WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS, small possessions gained and kept with a good conscience, THAN GREAT REVENUES, a large income and great wealth, WITHOUT RIGHT, having been gained by oppres...
This was in effect said before, PROVERBS 15:16, and is here repeated, partly because of the great importance and usefulness of this truth, and partly because men are very hardly brought to a serious b...
Proverbs 16:8 Better H2896 little H4592 righteousness H6666 vast H7230 revenues H8393 justice H4941 is -...
YHWH IS CONCERNED ABOUT INJUSTICE WHETHER AT THE HANDS OF THE KING OR OF MEN (PROVERBS 16:8). In this subsection men are urged to act justly and rightly in their business dealings, and kings are urged...
CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The safest way in which to travel is the way of the upright, a way which God makes plain to those who desire to walk in it....
Proverbs 16:1. _The preparations of the heart in man._ As the field must be plowed, and the soil prepared for the seeds, so the heart of man must be prepared for grace. Afflictions in Egypt disposed t...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 16:1 The comparison between the PLANS of a man’s HEART (vv. Proverbs 16:1,...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 16:7_ PLEASING GOD I. THERE ARE TIMES WHEN MEN’S WAYS DO NOT PLEASE THE LORD. _The ways of the ungodly do not at any time please the Lord_. Because they have no sympathy...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 16:1 These are specially religions maxims, and they all contain the name Jehovah. PROVERBS 16:1 The Authorized Version makes one sentence of this verse without any contrast or a...
Shall we turn now to Proverbs 16:1-33, the sixteenth chapter and begin our study this evening. The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD (Proverbs 16:1). Go...
1 Timothy 6:6; Jeremiah 17:11; Micah 6:10; Proverbs 15:16; Prover