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Verse Proverbs 1:32. _FOR THE TURNING AWAY OF THE SIMPLE_] This
difficult place seems to refer to such a case as we term _turning
king's_ _evidence_; where an accomplice saves his own life by
impeach...
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TURNING - Wisdom had called the simple to “turn,” and they had
turned, but it was “away” from her. For “prosperity” read
carelessness. Not outward prosperity, but the temper which it too
often produce...
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ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS
A detailed analysis, as we have made it in other books, cannot be
fully made in this collection of proverbs. Most of them are detached
and each has a message by itself. To int...
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PROVERBS 1-9. FIRST SECTION. THE PRAISE OF WISDOM.
Proverbs 1:1. Title, either of the whole book, or of this particular
collection.
The word for PROVERB, _mâ shâ l,_ has a wide significance _in Heb....
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SHALL SLAY THEM. Illustrations: Israel (Deuteronomy 32:15.Hosea 13:6;
Hosea 13:6); Babylon (Isaiah 47:7); Moab ...
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_turning away_ Lit. TURNING. The word, however, is commonly used of
turning away from God and from good. So here: "I called you to turn
_to_me (Proverbs 1:23), and instead, you have turned _from_me....
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FOR THE TURNING AWAY OF THE SIMPLE— The _simple,_ the _unfeeling:_
The men who have neglected my instructions, and who have been so void
of reason as to deliver themselves up to the example and the ad...
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TEXT Proverbs 1:20-33
20.
Wisdom crieth aloud in the street;
She uttereth her voice in the broad places;
21.
She crieth in the chief place of concourse;
At the entrance of the gates,
In the city...
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For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the
prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
FOR THE TURNING AWAY OF THE SIMPLE SHALL SLAY THEM. The turning away
from the monitions of Wisdom...
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1:32 away (e-4) Or 'turning back.'...
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The chapter falls into three principal divisions.
1-6. Title and Introduction explaining the object of the whole book,
which is to instruct the inexperienced and add to the educated man's
knowledge. I...
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When simpletons turn away from instruction they shall suffer for it.
'He who will not be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rocks.'
PROSPERITY] RM 'carelessness,' false security. 'Serious things...
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
ABOUT THE BOOK OF PROVERBS
King Solomon ruled the nation of Israel for 40 years. He brought
peace and wealth to the nation. Solomon’s workmen built pa...
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She obtains judgement. Their punishment is severe. This is because
they refused wisdom.
They did evil things. Now they will suffer a terrible punishment.
Their punishment is sudden, like a storm. It...
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כִּ֤י מְשׁוּבַ֣ת פְּתָיִ֣ם
תַּֽהַרְגֵ֑ם וְ שַׁלְוַ֖ת...
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CHAPTER 2
THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge."- Proverbs 1:7
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: And the knowledge of
the Holy One is understa...
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THE CALL OF WISDOM
Proverbs 1:20-33
The word _Wisdom_ and the description of her standing _atthe head of
the noisy streets-_ see Proverbs 1:21, r.v., margin-remind us of our
Lord, who, as the Word o...
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The Book of Proverbs is one of the wisdom books of the Hebrew people.
Emotionally and fundamentally, wisdom is the fear of God;
intellectually, a knowledge of the manifestations of the divine
wisdom;...
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For (a) the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the
prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
(a) That is, the prosperity and sensuality in which they delight....
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_Turning. Hebrew, "the ease of the simple," who have given way to
deceit. (Calmet) --- Them. The objects of their eager desires, prove
their ruin, Ezechiel xvi. 49._...
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Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: She
crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates:
in the city she uttereth her words, saying, How long, ye simple...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 9.
There are two very distinct parts in this book. The first nine Chapter
s, which give the great general principles; and the proverbs, properly
so...
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FOR THE TURNING AWAY OF THE SIMPLE SHALL SLAY THEM,.... Or be the
cause of their being slain; even their turning away from Christ, their
aversion to him; their turning their backs on him, and a deaf e...
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For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity
of fools shall destroy them.
Ver. 32. _For the turning away._] Whereas it might be objected that
meanwhile wicked men live at ea...
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_For that they hated knowledge_ Hated the light of divine truth,
because it discovered to them the evil of their ways, John 3:20; or,
hated the practical knowledge of God, and of their duty to him, _a...
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For the turning away of the simple, when they turned away from
discipline and forsook wisdom, SHALL SLAY THEM, AND THE PROSPERITY OF
FOOLS, their carnal security, their idle, easy rest, which renders...
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THE INVITATION OF WISDOM...
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TURNING AWAY OF THE SIMPLE:
Or, ease of the simple...
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20-33 Solomon, having showed how dangerous it is to hearken to the
temptations of Satan, here declares how dangerous it is not to hearken
to the calls of God. Christ himself is Wisdom, is Wisdoms. Th...
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TURNING AWAY, to wit, from God, and from his counsels and reproofs; so
this is opposed to _hearkening unto God_, PROVERBS 1:33. Or, as it is
rendered in the margin, and by divers others, _the ease or...
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Proverbs 1:32 away H4878 simple H6612 slay H2026 (H8799) complacency
H7962 fools H3684 destroy H6 (H8762)...
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WISDOM IS DEPICTED AS CRYING OUT TO BE HEARD, LONGING FOR RESPONSE,
PROMISING INCULCATION OF HER OWN SPIRIT, AND WARNING OF THE
CONSEQUENCES OF REFUSAL (PROVERBS 1:20).
We have here the first of the w...
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But If They Refuse To Respond To Wisdom's Voice And Fail To Choose The
Fear Of YHWH Then One Day, When They Suffer The Consequences Of Their
Refusal As They Surely Will, Wisdom Will Mock At Them, And...
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DISCOURSE 1. ADDRESSED TO ‘MY SON'. THOSE WHO SEEK TO WALK IN THE
FEAR OF YHWH WILL LISTEN TO THE INSTRUCTION OF GODLY AUTHORITY, AND
WILL AVOID THE ENTICEMENTS OF SINNERS MOTIVATED BY GREED. WISDOM I...
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CONTENTS: Wisdom's reasoning with the children of men and the certain
ruin of those who turn a deaf ear to Wisdom's call.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son, Wisdom, (Christ).
CONCLUSION: Of all thin...
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Proverbs 1:1. _Proverbs,_ apothegms, parables, sentences, similitudes.
The proverbs of a nation are the compressions of wisdom into short
maxims, which like the coins of a country worn bare by use, pa...
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The prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
PROSPERITY DANGEROUS TO VIRTUE
By “fools” are here represented all wicked and vicious persons.
The misery of such persons is, that when God gives them wha...
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 1:20 Wisdom is personified here as a
woman. She is pictured appealing to simple ones, scoffers, and fools
to pay attention to her words. Wisdom speaks in a way that recalls t...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 1:20. The word _wisdom_ is in the plural form in the Hebrew.
PROVERBS 1:27. DESOLATION, or “tempest.”
PROVERBS 1:28. To seek early denotes “earnestly.” See ch....
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 1:1
PART I. THE TITLE AND SUPERSCRIPTION.
The superscription of the Proverbs, which extends from verse 1 to
verse 6, furnishes us with an epitome in short and concise language of...
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Shall we turn in our Bibles tonight to Proverbs, chapter 1. The first
six verses are sort of a preface to the book, as authors many times
write a preface to their work.
The Proverbs of Solomon the so...
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Deuteronomy 32:15; Hebrews 10:38; Hebrews 10:39; Hebrews 12:25;...
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WISDOM'S CALL
Proverbs 1:20
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
1. Where the voice of Wisdom is heard. Wisdom doth not speak alone
among the wise. She doth not sound forth her voice alone in cloistered
circles, whe...
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Turning — From God. Destroy — Shall prove the occasion of their
ruin, by making them presumptuous, and secure....