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CHAPTER XVI
_Man prepares, but God governs. God has made all things for_
_himself; he hates pride. The judgments of God. The_
_administration of kings; their justice, anger, and clemency._
_God ha...
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The proverbs in Proverbs 16:1 have, more than any other group, an
especially religious character impressed upon them. The name of Yahweh
as Giver, Guide, Ruler, or Judge, meets us in each of them.
Pr...
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CHAPTER 16 IN THE LIGHT OF THE LORD
The name Jehovah (LORD) appears eleven times in this chapter of
Proverbs. The Lord has the final word, for to man belong the
preparations (or plans) of the heart;...
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PROVERBS 16. The special feature is a group of aphorisms (Proverbs
16:10) relating to kings. The sentiments seem rather to reflect the
picture of the ideal king than to indicate any particular period....
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PREPARATIONS. arrangements or plans. The Ellipsis (App-6) of the verb
in the first clause must be supplied (as it is in the second clause):
"To man [pertain] the plans of his heart; but from Jehovah ...
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_The preparations_&c. Rather:
TO MAN BELONG THE PREPARATIONS (or PLANS) OF THE HEART;
BUT FROM JEHOVAH IS THE ANSWER OF THE TONGUE.
This cannot mean that wise thoughts are human, but wise words d...
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THE PREPARATIONS OF THE HEART, &C.— Houbigant renders it, _It is in
man to prepare discourse within himself; it is in the Lord to moderate
or rule the tongue._ Bishop Patrick says, the Hebrew words ru...
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CHAPTER 16
TEXT Proverbs 16:1-11
1.
The plans of the heart belong to man;
But the answer of the tongue is from Jehovah.
2.
All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes;
But Jehovah weigheth t...
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The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue,
is from the LORD.
THE PREPARATIONS [LITERALLY, THE ORDERLY DISPOSINGS, AS THOSE OF AN
ARMY IN ARRAY; OR AS THE LOAVES OF THE SHOW...
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16:1 purposes (f-2) Or 'disposings.'...
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Read, 'the preparations of the heart belong to man, but the answer of
the tongue is from the Lord.' Man prepares his plans, but the
decisive, final word is suggested by God. 'There's a divinity that
s...
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We should ask God to help us to speak the right words. The ‘plans of
our hearts’ are our thoughts and ideas. We do not know everything.
God knows the things that we do not know. We need his help to sa...
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XVI.
(1) THE PREPARATIONS OF THE HEART IN MAN... — Rather, _To man belong
the counsels of the heart._ He may turn over in his mind what is the
right thing to be said on any occasion, “but from the Lo...
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לְ אָדָ֥ם מַֽעַרְכֵי ־לֵ֑ב וּ֝ מֵ
יְהוָ֗ה מַעֲנֵ֥ה לָשֹֽׁון׃...
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CHAPTER 17
A JUST BALANCE
"A just balance and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag
are His work."- Proverbs 16:11
"A false balance is an abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is
H...
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Verse Proverbs 16:1. A somewhat obscure proverb which recognizes that
man has to exercise his own reason in making his plans, but that he is
dependent on the Lord for the answer of the tongue. Dr. Per...
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The (a) preparations of the heart belong to man, and the answer of the
tongue, [are] from the LORD.
(a) He derides the presumption of man, who dares to attribute anything
to himself, as to prepare hi...
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It is the part of man, &c. That is, a man should prepare in his heart
and soul what he is to say; but after all, it must be the Lord that
must govern his tongue, to speak to the purpose. Not that we c...
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The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is
from the LORD.
This chapter opens with a doctrine that we should do well to keep
always uppermost in our remembrance, at whateve...
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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
follow...
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THE PREPARATIONS OF THE HEART IN MAN,.... The sense of these words,
according to our version, depends upon the next clause, and the
meaning of the whole is, that a man can neither think nor speak
with...
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The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue,
[is] from the LORD.
Ver. 1. _The preparations of the heart in man._] He saith not ‘of
man' as if it were in man's power to dispose...
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_The preparations of the heart in man_, &c. As we read this verse, it
teacheth us a great truth, that we are _not sufficient of ourselves to
think_, or speak, _any thing of ourselves_, that is wise an...
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V. 1. THE PREPARATIONS OF THE HEART IN MAN AND THE ANSWER OF THE
TONGUE IS FROM THE LORD, literally, "To man," that is, pertaining to
man, "the plannings of the heart, but from Jehovah the answer of t...
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PREPARATIONS:
Or, disposings...
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PROVERBS CHAPTER 16 Men can neither think nor speak wisely and well of
themselves, or without Divine assistance. Or, as many others, both
ancient and modern interpreters, render the verse, THE PREPARA...
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Proverbs 16:1 preparations H4633 heart H3820 man H120 answer H4617
tongue H3956 LORD H3068
preparations - or, disposings, Proverbs 16:9, Proverbs 19:21, Proverbs
20:24, Proverbs 21:1; 2 Chronicles 18...
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CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: The safest way in which to travel is the way of the
upright, a way which God makes plain to those who desire to walk in
it....
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Proverbs 16:1. _The preparations of the heart in man._ As the field
must be plowed, and the soil prepared for the seeds, so the heart of
man must be prepared for grace. Afflictions in Egypt disposed t...
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_The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue,
is from the Lord._
HEART-CULTURE
We must allow no habits of mind to grow upon us which shall unfit us
for making the best opportun...
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 16:1 The comparison between the PLANS of a
man’s HEART (vv. Proverbs 16:1, Proverbs 16:9) and the sovereign
direction of THE LORD (vv. Proverbs 16:1, Proverbs 16:9) unifies t...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 16:1. Nearly all commentators agree in reading this verse,
“_To man belong the preparations of the heart, but the answer of the
tongue is from, the Lord_.” PREPARATIONS, lit...
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 16:1
These are specially religions maxims, and they all contain the name
Jehovah.
PROVERBS 16:1
The Authorized Version makes one sentence of this verse without any
contrast or a...
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Shall we turn now to Proverbs 16:1-33, the sixteenth chapter and begin
our study this evening.
The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is
from the LORD (Proverbs 16:1).
Go...
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2 Chronicles 18:31; 2 Corinthians 8:16; Exodus 4:11; Exodus 4:12;
Exodus 4:15; Ezekiel 36:26; Ezekiel 36:27; Ezra 7:27; James 1:16; Jer
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From the Lord — Men can neither think nor speak wisely and well
without Divine assistance....