Proverbs 19:1-29
1. FOOL] read, 'rich' (Proverbs 28:6).... [ Continue Reading ]
1. FOOL] read, 'rich' (Proverbs 28:6).... [ Continue Reading ]
Read, 'Also, desire without knowledge,' etc. Desires must be controlled by knowledge. The hasty in action will miss his mark. 'While the discreet advise, the fool doth his business.'... [ Continue Reading ]
PERVERTETH] RV 'subverteth.' It is his own fault, yet he blames God for it.... [ Continue Reading ]
Great nobles and great donors are always sought after.... [ Continue Reading ]
DELIGHT] RV 'delicate living.' He cannot appreciate refinement. Slaves have often risen to great power in the East: the danger is that they may become like the Felix of Acts 23, who was said to exercise royal power with a slave's disposition.... [ Continue Reading ]
The Arabic proverb is, 'Three things render a house uninhabitable _—tak_ (rain leaking through), _nak_ (a wife's nagging), and _bah_ (bugs).'... [ Continue Reading ]
'So much hast thou of thy hoard As thou gavest to thy Lord Only this will bring thee in Usance rich and free from sin: Send thy silver on before, Lending to His sick and poor. Every curhem dropped in alms Touches Allah's open palms, Ere it falls into the hands Of thy brother.'... [ Continue Reading ]
RV '.. seeing there is hope, And set not thy heart on his destruction.' Not to discipline is to destroy.... [ Continue Reading ]
Attempt to soothe him, and he will rage the more.... [ Continue Reading ]
'Words are as breath, and will is all.' Only the intention counts (Proverbs 23:6; Mark 12:42; 2 Corinthians 8:12).... [ Continue Reading ]
RV 'The sluggard burieth his hand in the dish,' etc.: the allusion is to the large dish in the centre into which all dip (Mark 14:20).... [ Continue Reading ]
DE VOURETH] i.e. gulps down greedily.... [ Continue Reading ]