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Verse Proverbs 28:8. _HE THAT BY USURY - INCREASETH HIS SUBSTANCE_]
By taking unlawful interest for his money; _lending_ to a man in great
distress, money, for the use of which he requires an _exorbi...
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UNJUST GAIN - Omit “unjust:” “usury and gain” make up the
notion of “gain derived from usury.” Ill-gotten gains do not
prosper, after a time they pass into hands that know how to use them
better....
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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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_unjust gain_ Rather, INCREASE, as A.V. marg. and R.V. text, μετὰ
τόκων καὶ πλεονασμῶν, LXX. Comp. Leviticus
25:36-37.
The idea of its being "unjust" is implied by the word "usury" with
which it is a...
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CHAPTER 28
TEXT Proverbs 28:1-9
1.
The wicked flee when no man pursueth; But the righteous are bold as a
lion.
2.
For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof;
But by men of under...
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He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall
gather it for him that will pity the poor.
Proverbs 13:22, end; Ecclesiastes 2:26; Job 27:16.
Usury...
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28:8 poor. (b-20) _ Dal_ , 'poor,' plural, as chs. 10.15; 22.16;
29.7,14....
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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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UNJUST GAIN] RV 'increase.' The OT. denounced usury and interest
because it was assumed that the borrower was a person in distress
(Exodus 22:25; Deuteronomy 23:19; Psalms 15:5). That is quite a
diffe...
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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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This wealthy man is an evil man. He lends money. But he does not
charge fairly. So he obtains a big income. And the people who are in
debt will suffer. (See Exodus 22:25.)
But, in the end, the wealth...
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HE THAT BY USURY... INCREASETH HIS SUBSTANCE. — See above on
Proverbs 6:1.
HE SHALL GATHER IT FOR HIM THAT WILL PITY THE POOR. — The
“pound” is taken from him who knows not how to use it (Luke
19:24),...
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מַרְבֶּ֣ה הֹ֖ונֹו בְּ נֶ֣שֶׁךְ
_וְ_†_תַרְבִּ֑ית_† לְ...
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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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_Poor. It seldom happens that the unjust leave their riches to their
children, chap. xiii. 22., and Job xxvii. 16._...
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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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HE THAT BY USURY AND UNJUST GAIN INCREASETH HIS SUBSTANCE,.... By
biting and oppressing the poor; letting him have money at an
exorbitant interest, and goods at an exorbitant price, and so
increases h...
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He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall
gather it for him that will pity the poor.
Ver. 8. _He that by usury and unjust gain, &c._] Usury is condemned
by the very heathens...
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_He that by usury, &c., increaseth his substance_ Hebrew, _By usury
and increase_, that is, by any kind of usury whereby the poor are
oppressed, or by any unrighteous practices; _he shall gather it_,...
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He that by usury and unjust gain, by interest exacted from an
impoverished neighbor and by exactions in natural products, by
exercising a cold and grasping avarice, INCREASETH HIS SUBSTANCE,
growing r...
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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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UNJUST GAIN:
_ Heb._ by increase...
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BY USURY AND UNJUST GAIN, Heb. _by usury and_ (or, _or_) increase,
i.e. by any kind of usury, whereby the poor are oppressed, as is
implied from the opposite clause; or by any unrighteous practices. S...
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Proverbs 28:8 increases H7235 (H8688) possessions H1952 usury H5392
extortion H8636 Gathers H6908 (H8762) pity H2603
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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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_He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall
gather it for him that will pity the poor._
DISHONESTY
A matter-of-fact Englishman, writing about the uselessness of abstract
prea...
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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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2 Samuel 12:6; Ecclesiastes 2:26; Ezekiel 18:13; Ezekiel 18:17;...
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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...