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Verse Proverbs 24:16. _FOR A JUST_ MAN] צדיק _tsaddik_, the
_righteous_, the same person mentioned above.
_FALLETH SEVEN TIMES_] Gets _very often_ into distresses through his
_resting place_ being _...
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The teaching of the proverb warns men not to attack or plot against
the righteous. They will lose their labor, “Though the just man fall
(not into sin, but into calamities), yet he riseth up.” The poi...
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CHAPTER 24 INSTRUCTIONS CONTINUED
In the final instructions of this chapter we find first a description
of the evil men. Their heart studieth destruction; their lips talk
mischief. This theme is repea...
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PROVERBS 24:7 A. Lit. Wisdom is corals to the fool. RV involves a
change m the text, which gives perhaps the best sense that can be made
of an obviously corrupt stanza.
Proverbs 24:9. thought: the wor...
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JUST. righteous.
THE WICKED. lawless ones.
MISCHIEF. calamity. Hebrew. _ra'a'._ Not the same word as in Proverbs
24:2 and Proverbs 24:8....
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_falleth_ not into _sin_, for the Heb. word is never used of moral
lapse, but into trouble or calamity. You will "lay wait against" him
and "spoil" him (Proverbs 24:15) to no purpose. You may cause hi...
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FOR A JUST MAN FALLETH SEVEN TIMES— i.e. Into trouble or affliction,
not into wilful sin. The Hebrew word נפל _napal,_ rendered
_falleth,_ is never applied to _sin;_ but, when set in opposition to
the...
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TEXT Proverbs 24:13-22
13.
My son, eat thou honey, for it is good;
And the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to thy taste:
14.
So shalt thou know wisdom to be unto thy soul;
If thou ha...
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For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the
wicked shall fall into mischief.
FOR A JUST MAN FALLETH SEVEN (I:E., EVER SO MANY, PROVERBS 26:25 )
TIMES (INTO CALAMITIES), AND RI...
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24:16 disaster. (h-16) Lit. 'evil,' as chs. 17.20; 28.14....
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SEVEN] an indefinite, but considerable number. The wrath will now fall
on you....
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5. Read, 'A wise man is better than a warrior, and a man of knowledge
than a man of strength.'...
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 24
V1 Do not be jealous of evil men.
Do not try to meet them.
V2
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In verse 15, the writer uses humour. He writes a lesson for thieves.
Of course, the writer really thinks that thieves are evil. But he
pretends that he is teaching thieves. He advises the thieves not...
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FOR A JUST MAN FALLETH SEVEN TIMES AND RISETH UP AGAIN. — That is,
falls into trouble (not _sin,_ as is often supposed). Therefore thy
malice will be of no avail, for God’s protection is about him.
(C...
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כִּ֤י שֶׁ֨בַע ׀ יִפֹּ֣ול צַדִּ֣יק וָ
קָ֑ם וּ֝
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CHAPTER 25
FORGIVING
"Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause, and deceive not
with thy lips. Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me; I
will render to the man according to hi...
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Warnings are uttered against envy, against the formation of evil
companionships, against excess in passion, against all false
exhilaration; and perperpetual attention to wisdom and earnest
endeavor to...
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Fall into smaller sins, (St. Gregory vi. in 2 Reg. xv. &c.) or into
disgrace, as yippol (Haydock) rather intimates. (Vatable) (St.
Augustine, City of God xi. 31.) --- Both significations agree with th...
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Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous;
spoil not his resting place: For a just man falleth seven times, and
riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief. Rejoic...
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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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FOR A JUST [MAN] FALLETH SEVEN TIMES, AND RISETH UP [AGAIN],.... This
is to be understood of a truly just man; not of one that is only
outwardly and seemingly so, or of temporary believers and nominal...
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For a just [man] falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the
wicked shall fall into mischief.
Ver. 16. _For a just man falleth seven times,_] _i.e., _ Often. Seven
times a day, as the Vulgate a...
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_Lay not wait, &c., against the dwelling of the righteous_ Against his
person, or family, or possessions. Do him no injury, either by subtle
and secret devices, or, as it follows, by manifest violence...
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V. 16. FOR A JUST MAN FALLETH SEVEN TIMES, for misfortunes often seem
to single him out, he has his full share of them, AND RISETH UP AGAIN,
endowed with new strength by the Lord; BUT THE WICKED SHALL...
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FALLETH; either,
1. Into sin. Or, rather,
2. Into calamities, of which he evidently speaks, both in the
foregoing verse, and in the opposite and following branch of this
verse, and so this word is us...
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Proverbs 24:16 righteous H6662 fall H5307 (H8799) times H7651 again
H6965 (H8804) wicked H7563 fall...
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CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son.
CONCLUSION: If wicked people prosper, we should not be inclined to do
as they do, nor complain of what God does in His provide...
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Proverbs 24:1. _Be not envious against evil men._ Similar thoughts
occur in Psalms 37:1; Psalms 73; Proverbs 17:1. Why should we envy the
wicked? We are all g
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 24:15 This warns against joining the
WICKED in injustice. Acting this way forms a person’s character in a
way that will be unhelpful in CALAMITY....
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 24:16. THE WICKED SHALL FALL. Delitzsch reads, “_the wicked
are overthrown when calamity falls on them_, _i.e._, they do not rise
again and again as the just man does.
_MAI...
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 24:1
We return here to the more usual form, the tetrastich. BE NOT THOU
ENVIOUS AGAINST EVIL MEN (see on Proverbs 23:17, where a similar
warning is given, and comp....
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Again, he continues in twenty-four in putting them together in
couplets or in phrases.
Be not envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. For
their heart studies destruction, and their...
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1 Samuel 26:10; 1 Samuel 31:4; 1 Thessalonians 5:3; 2 Corinthians 1:8;...
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Falleth — Into calamities, of which he evidently speaks both in the
foregoing verse, and in the following branch of this verse. Fall —
Frequently into irrecoverable destruction....