CHAPTER XIX _The worth of a poor upright man. Riches preserve friends. False_ _witnesses. False friends. A king's wrath. The foolish son. The_ _prudent wife. Slothfulness. Pity for the poor. The fear of the_ _Lord. The spendthrift son. Obedience to parents._ NOTES ON CHAP. XIX Verse Proverbs 1... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Proverbs 19:2. _ALSO_, THAT _THE SOUL_ BE _WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE_, IT IS _NOT_ _GOOD_] Would it not be plainer, as it is more _literal_, to say, "Also, to be without knowledge, is not good for the soul?" The soul was made for God; and to be without his _knowledge_, to be _unacquainted with him_, i... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Proverbs 19:3. _THE FOOLISHNESS OF MAN_] Most men complain of cross providences, because they get into straits and difficulties through the _perverseness of their ways_; and thus _they fret against_ _God_; whereas, in every instance, they are the causes of their own calamities. O how inconsist... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Proverbs 19:4. _THE POOR IS SEPARATED FROM HIS NEIGHBOUR._] Because he has the "disease of all-shunned poverty.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Proverbs 19:7. _DO HATE HIM_] They _shun_ him as they do the person they _hate_. They neither _hate_ him _positively_, nor _love_ him: they _disregard_ him; they will have nothing to do with him. שנא _sana_ signifies not only to hate, but to show a less degree of love to one than another. So J... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Proverbs 19:10. _DELIGHT IS NOT SEEMLY FOR A FOOL_] תענוג _taanug_, splendid or luxurious living, rank, equipage, c. These sit ill on a _fool_, though he be by birth a _lord_. _FOR A SERVANT TO HAVE RULE OVER PRINCES._] I pity the king who delivers himself into the hands of his own ministers.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Proverbs 19:11. IT IS _HIS GLORY TO PASS OVER A TRANSGRESSION._] "No," says what is termed a _man of honour_; "he must meet me as a gentleman; I must have his blood, let God say what he will." O poor, dastardly coward! thou canst not bear the reproach of poor, flimsy, paltry fellows who ridicu... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Proverbs 19:12. _THE KING'S WRATH_ IS _AS THE ROARING OF A LION_] There is nothing more dreadful than the roaring of this tyrant of the forest. At the sound of it all other animals tremble, flee away, and hide themselves. The _king_ who is above law, and rules without law, and whose will is hi... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Proverbs 19:13. _THE CONTENTIONS OF A WIFE_ ARE _A CONTINUAL DROPPING._] The man who has got such a wife is like a tenant who has got a _cottage_ with a _bad roof_, through every part of which the rain either _drops_ or _pours_. He can neither _sit, stand, work_, nor _sleep_, without being exp... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Proverbs 19:14. _A PRUDENT WIFE_ IS _FROM THE LORD._] One who has a good understanding, אשה משכלת _ishshah mascaleth_; who avoids complaining, though she may often have cause for it.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Proverbs 19:15. _INTO A DEEP SLEEP_] תרדמה _tardemah_, the same into which Adam was thrown, before Eve was taken from his side. Sloth renders a man utterly unconscious of all his interests. Though he has frequently felt hunger, yet he is regardless that his continual slothfulness must necessar... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Proverbs 19:17. _LENDETH UNTO THE LORD_] O what a word is this! God makes himself debtor for every thing that is given to the _poor_! Who would not _advance much_ upon such _credit_? _God will pay it_ _again_. And in no case has he ever forfeited his word.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Proverbs 19:18. _LET NOT THY SOUL SPARE FOR HIS CRYING._] This is a hard precept for a _parent_. Nothing affects the heart of a parent so much as a child's _cries_ and _tears_. But it is better that the _child_ may be caused to _cry_, when the correction may be healthful to his soul, than that... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Proverbs 19:19. _A MAN OF GREAT WRATH_] He who is of an _irritable, fiery_ disposition, will necessarily get himself into many broils; and he that is _surety_ for him once is likely to be called on again and again for the same friendly office.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Proverbs 19:21. THERE ARE _MANY DEVICES, C._] The same sentiment as in Proverbs 16:1, where see the note. Proverbs 16:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Proverbs 19:24. _A SLOTHFUL_ MAN _HIDETH HIS HAND IN_ HIS _BOSOM_] Is too lazy to feed himself, If he dip his hand _once_ in the dish, he is too lazy to put it in a _second_ time. It is a strange case that a man, through his excessive slothfulness, would rather starve than put himself to the t... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Proverbs 19:26. _HE THAT WASTETH_ HIS _FATHER_] Destroys his substance by riotous or extravagant living, so as to embitter his latter end by poverty and affliction; and adds to this wickedness the _expulsion_ _of his aged_ widowed _mother_ from the paternal house; _is a son of_ _shame_ - a mos... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Proverbs 19:27. _CEASE, MY SON_] Hear nothing that would lead thee away from God and his truth.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Proverbs 19:29. _STRIPES FOR THE BACK OF FOOLS._] _Profane_ and _wicked_ men expose themselves to the punishments denounced against such by just laws. Avoid, therefore, both their company and their end.... [ Continue Reading ]