Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible
Proverbs 28:10
Whoso causeth the righteous, &c.— The LXX have another verse here: they read, The wicked shall pass by good things, and shall not enter into them.
Whoso causeth the righteous, &c.— The LXX have another verse here: they read, The wicked shall pass by good things, and shall not enter into them.
Verse Proverbs 28:10. _WHOSO CAUSETH THE RIGHTEOUS TO GO ASTRAY_] He who strives to pervert one really converted to God, in order that he may pour contempt on religion, shall fall into that hell to wh...
When the wicked succeed in tempting the righteous, Vice seems to win a triumph. But the triumph is suicidal. The tempter will suffer the punishment he deserves, and the blameless, if true to themselve...
CHAPTER 28 WARNINGS AND INSTRUCTIONS CONTINUED The wicked is a coward; the righteous man, because he trusteth in the Lord and knows the Lord is on his side, is as bold as a lion. It is the conscience...
SECOND DIVISION, PROVERBS 28 F. In general character this division resembles Section II., consisting chiefly of antithetic couplets. PROVERBS 28:2 B. The text is uncertain, and various renderings are...
THE RIGHTEOUS. upright ones. PIT. a slough or clay pit. Hebrew. _shehuth._...
_the upright_&c. Better, with R.V., THE PERFECT SHALL INHERIT GOOD....
TEXT Proverbs 28:10-18 10. Whoso causeth the upright to go astray in an evil way, He shall fall himself into his own pit; But the perfect shall inherit good. 11. The rich man is wise in his own...
Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession. WHOSO CAUSETH (OR TRIES TO CAUSE) THE RIGHTEO...
OBSERVATIONS RELATING CHIEFLY TO SOCIAL LIFE 2. Cp. the many changes of rulers during the unsatisfactory period described in 2K15....
The EVIL WAY is the one which ends in calamity....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 28 V1 A wicked person runs away, even if nobody is chasing him. But good people are as bold as lions....
A man may have evil plans against good people. But God cares about good people. God will not allow evil plans to succeed. Instead, the evil man will suffer from his own evil schemes....
HE SHALL FALL HIMSELF INTO HIS OWN PIT. — See above on Proverbs 26:27....
מַשְׁגֶּ֤ה יְשָׁרִ֨ים ׀ בְּ דֶ֥רֶךְ רָ֗ע בִּ...
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 a...
Verse Proverbs 28:2. "The transgression of a land" must be understood as the opposite of the "state shall be prolonged." Then the proverb means that a multiplicity of princes is an evil, but men of un...
Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich. Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his...
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...
WHOSO CAUSETH THE RIGHTEOUS TO GO ASTRAY IN AN EVIL WAY,.... That is, who attempts to deceive them, and draw them into errors or immoralities, and so into a snare, into mischief and ruin; first into t...
Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good [things] in possession. Ver. 10. _Whoso causeth the righteous to go as...
_Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray_ Who, by evil counsel, or example, or artifice, draws them into such practices as expose them to great danger and mischief; _he shall fall himself into his ow...
Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, seducing him to ungodly and sinful conduct, HE SHALL FALL HIMSELF INTO HIS OWN PIT, be ruined in the manner intended for others; BUT THE UPRIGH...
THE CONSEQUENCES OF IMPIETY...
IF we HAVE SEEN in chapter 27 the blessing of God and refuge in the sanctuary, chapter 28, a fourth section. brings our feet abruptly back to the wilderness path, where walk and ways must be tested by...
WHOSO CAUSETH THE RIGHTEOUS TO GO ASTRAY IN AN EVIL WAY; that by evil counsel, or example, or artifice draws them into such practices as expose them to great danger and mischief. THE UPRIGHT SHALL HAV...
Proverbs 28:10 upright H3477 astray H7686 (H8688) evil H7451 way H1870 fall H5307 (H8799) pit H7816 blameless...
CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: True religion is true wisdom, making men wise in every relation. Those who make conscience of God's law will find a security in the...
Proverbs 28:2. _By a man of understanding the state shall be prolonged._ Who can value the Samuels in Israel; the Gracchuses in Rome; the Walpoles, the Chathams in England? In Lord Chatham's time it w...
_Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit._ OPPOSITE CHARACTERS AND OPPOSITE DESTINIES I. Here are the opposite characters--the perverse and th...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 28:2 Righteous individuals are essential for a just society. When many individuals are unjust, particularly those with power, all of society will suffer....
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 28:5. JUDGMENT, or, “what is right” _(Delitzsch)_. PROVERBS 28:6. PERVERSE, etc., literally, “he who is crooked in two ways.” Delitzsch translates, “_a double-going deceive...
EXPOSITION This chapter is still part of the Hezekiah collection, and not a new series by another author. It may be regarded as describing the various destinies of the powerful and the weak, the sinn...
Twenty-eight: The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are as bold as a lion (Proverbs 28:1). The contrast of the wicked and the righteous. We had an awful lot of that early in the pr...
1 Samuel 26:19; 2 Corinthians 11:13; 2 Corinthians 11:3; 2 Corinthians 11:4;...
DIVINE CONTRASTS Proverbs 28:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We have another one of Solomon's messages which God gave to him. We will bring out several statements in the beginning of the chapter. 1. A CONTRAS...
Causeth — That by evil counsel, or example, or artifice, draws them into evil....