Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Proverbs 14:9
Lit.' the guilt-offering mocketh at fools.' This seems to mean that fools trust in its expiatory virtue, but that on their behalf it has no efficacy.
Lit.' the guilt-offering mocketh at fools.' This seems to mean that fools trust in its expiatory virtue, but that on their behalf it has no efficacy.
Verse Proverbs 14:9. _FOOLS MAKE A MOCK AT SIN_] And only _fools_ would do so. But he that makes a _sport_ of _sinning_, will find it _no sport_ to suffer the vengeance of an eternal fire. Some learn...
FOOLS MAKE A MOCK - The verb in the Heb. is singular, the noun plural. The King James Version assumes that the number is altered to individualize the application of the maxim. Others translate it: “Si...
CHAPTER 14 THE WISE AND THE FOOLISH: THE RICH AND THE POOR The contrast now concerns the wise and the foolish, the rich and the poor. Let us see some of these contrasts. “In the mouth of the foolish i...
PROVERBS 14. In this, as in each of the preceding Chapter s in this section, aphorisms on the moral government of the world come first in number. There are rather more in this chapter of a political a...
MAKE. MOCK. The verb is singular, and probably the plural "fools" means "A great fool makes. mock", &c. SIN. guilt. The proper name for the trespass offering. Hebrew. _'asham_ (App-44.) Illustrations:...
_sin_ Rather, GUILT, R.V. If this rendering be adopted, the Heb. construction (a sing. verb with a plur. noun, lit. fools, he maketh &c.) will serve to individualise (comp. Proverbs 3:18), and the con...
DISCOURSE: 782 THE FOLLY OF MAKING A MOCK AT SIN Proverbs 14:9. _Fools make a mock at sin_. MAN in his first creation was formed after the Divine image; and there was not in his soul the least inclin...
FOOLS MAKE A MOCK AT SIN— Or, according to others, _Fools excuse_ or _palliate sin._ Houbigant reads the verses _The dwelling of fools is guilt, of the just is favour._...
CHAPTER 14 TEXT Proverbs 14:1-12 1. Every wise woman buildeth her house; But the foolish plucketh it down with her own hands. 2. He that walketh in his uprightness feareth Jehovah; But he that i...
Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour. FOOLS MAKE A MOCK AT SIN - (; ; .) The Hebrew my be also translated, 'sin (i:e., when it brings its punishment) makes a mock at fo...
14:9 for (f-8) Lit. 'among.' favour. (g-13) Or 'good-will.'...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 14 V1 The wise woman builds her house. The foolish woman pulls down her own house with her own hands....
When someone becomes a Christian, he will receive a welcome from other Christians. See Luke 15. However, some people will laugh at a new Christian. Solomon calls these people, ‘fools’. By ‘fools’, he...
FOOLS MAKE A MOCK AT SIN. — Rather, perhaps, _sin mocks fools_ (they miss the gratification they expected from it); or, _the sin-offering mocks them._ God does not accept it, and so they have the trou...
אֱ֭וִלִים יָלִ֣יץ אָשָׁ֑ם וּ בֵ֖ין יְשָׁרִ֣ים...
CHAPTER 15 THE INWARD UNAPPROACHABLE LIFE "The heart knoweth its own bitterness and a stranger doth not intermeddle with its joy."- Proverbs 14:10 "Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful, and the...
Verse Proverbs 14:7. The sense of this proverb is entirely altered in the Revision. The Authorized reading would make it mean that if a man is perceived to be devoid of knowledge he should be abandone...
Fools make a mock at (f) sin: but among the righteous [there is] favour. (f) Does not know the grievousness of it, nor God's judgments against the same....
_Sin. Chap. x. 23. Hebrew, "excuse sin," (Calmet) or "mock at sin," (Haydock) committed by others. (Menochius) --- Grace, or good-will. They are agreeable to all. (Calmet)_...
Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour. This is a sweet verse, and fully explained by every gracious soul in his own feeling's. Who knows the secret transactions between God...
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...
FOOLS MAKE A MOCK AT SIN,.... At sinful actions, their own or others; they make light of them, a jest of them, call evil good, and good evil; take pleasure in doing them themselves, and in those that...
Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous [there is] favour. Ver. 9. _Fools make a mock of sin._] A sport or pastime of it. Pro 10:23 _See Trapp on "_ Pro 10:23 _"_ They dance with the devil...
_Fools make a mock at sin_ Wicked men, here meant by fools, please and divert themselves with their own and other men's sins, which is a high offence to God and all good men. Or, as others render the...
V. 9. FOOLS MAKE A MOCK AT SIN, literally, "the sacrifice mocks the fools"; for even if such ungodly people offer up burnt offerings for expiation and atonement, it is useless, it fails of its object,...
FOOLS, wicked men, as appears from their opposition to the righteous in the next clause, MAKE A MOCK AT SIN; please and support themselves with their own and other men's sins, which is a high offence...
Proverbs 14:9 Fools H191 mock H3887 (H8686) sin H817 upright H3477 favor H7522 Fools - Prove
WE ARE TO FOLLOW THE WAYS OF THE WISE AND SHREWD, NOT THE WAYS OF THE FOOLISH (PROVERBS 14:7). The whole emphasis of Proverbs is on following God's wisdom. By doing so the shrewd man understands his w...
Proverbs 14:9 I. The various ways in which men make a mock at sin may be summed up under two heads: by their words, and by their actions. We show our scorn and contempt of a thing in our words, when w...
CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The house of the wicked, though built ever so strong and high, shall be brought to disgrace and at length made extinct. The...
Proverbs 14:1. _Every wise woman buildeth her house,_ as Proverbs 9:1, by training up her children to industry, piety and virtue. She is their first governess, and daily instils the elements of knowle...
_Fools make a mock at sin._ THINKING LIGHTLY OF SIN Breathing an atmosphere tainted with moral evil, seeing and hearing sin in our daily walks, we are in no small danger of overlooking its malignity....
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 14:8 This section begins and ends with contrasts between the PRUDENT (vv. Proverbs 14:8,...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 14:9 GUILT OFFERING. See Leviticus 5:14. The UPRIGHT finds ACCEPTANCE fro
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 14:8. DECEIT, or “deception.” PROVERBS 14:9. MANY translators read this verse, “The sacrifice,” or “the sin-offering, makes a sport of,” or “mocks fools.” So Zöckler, Elster...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 14:1 EVERY WISE WOMAN BUILDETH HER HOUSE. Wise women order well their household matters and their families; they have an important influence, and exercise it beneficially. Γυναι...
Continuation of the contrasting of goodness and evil. Every wise woman (Proverbs 14:1) And wise and foolish contrasted always, too. Every wise woman builds her house (Proverbs 14:1): She takes care...
Job 15:16; Job 34:7; Jude 1:18; Proverbs 1:22; Proverbs 10:23;...
Favour — They find favour both with God and men....