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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...
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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...
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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...
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THE RIGHTEOUS. upright ones.
PIT. a slough or clay pit. Hebrew. _shehuth._...
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_the upright_&c. Better, with R.V., THE PERFECT SHALL INHERIT GOOD....
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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._...
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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...
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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...
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OBSERVATIONS RELATING CHIEFLY TO SOCIAL LIFE
2. Cp. the many changes of rulers during the unsatisfactory period
described in 2K15....
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The EVIL WAY is the one which ends in calamity....
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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....
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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....
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HE SHALL FALL HIMSELF INTO HIS OWN PIT. — See above on Proverbs
26:27....
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מַשְׁגֶּ֤ה יְשָׁרִ֨ים ׀ בְּ דֶ֥רֶךְ
רָ֗ע בִּ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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THE CONSEQUENCES OF IMPIETY...
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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...
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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...
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Proverbs 28:10 upright H3477 astray H7686 (H8688) evil H7451 way H1870
fall H5307 (H8799) pit H7816 blameless...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Samuel 26:19; 2 Corinthians 11:13; 2 Corinthians 11:3; 2 Corinthians
11:4;...
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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...
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Causeth — That by evil counsel, or example, or artifice, draws them
into evil....