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CHAPTER 21 PERSONAL INSTRUCTIONS AS TO LIFE AND CONDUCT
In the proverbs of this chapter the Lord is mentioned five times.
“The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of
water: He turne...
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PROVERBS 21:1. WATERCOURSES: not the natural brooks and wadys of
Palestine, but the artificial irrigation canals of Egypt or Babylonia,
which could be diverted in any direction at will.
Proverbs 21:4...
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THAN, &C. Supply the Ellipsis thus: Than [in. house, or palace]....
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_wilderness_ regarded, as the parallel requires, not as a _barren_,
but as a _solitary_place.
_angry_ Or, FRETFUL, R.V. text; or, _a contentious woman and
vexation_, R.V. marg. The LXX. introduce a t...
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TEXT Proverbs 21:11-20
11.
When the scoffer is punished, the simple is made wise;
And when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.
12.
The righteous man considereth the house of the wicke...
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It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and
an angry woman.
Compare ....
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1. The 'watercourses' (RV) are the artificial irrigation channels of
Egypt and Babylon (Isaiah 58:11)....
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 21
V1 A king is like a canal that God controls.
God leads the king in the way that God decides.
V2 A man supposes that all his actions are ri...
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טֹ֗וב שֶׁ֥בֶת בְּ אֶֽרֶץ ־מִדְבָּ֑ר
מֵ אֵ֖שֶׁת _מִדְיָנִ֣ים_† וָ כָֽעַס׃...
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CHAPTER 22
WINE
"He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: He that loveth wine and
oil shall not be rich."- Proverbs 21:17
THE Septuagint translation has an interesting addition to the proverb
in...
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Verse Proverbs 21:4. The "lamp" of a man's life is his spirit. Where
that is exalted and manifests itself in the high look and the proud
heart, there is sin. All of which is to say that for a man to f...
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It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a
brawling woman in a wide house. The soul of the wicked desireth evil:
his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes. When the scorner is
pu...
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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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[IT IS] BETTER TO DWELL IN THE WILDERNESS,.... Where persons live
without shelter, and are not only exposed to storms and tempests, but
to beasts of prey; where is want of the necessaries of life, and...
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Proverbs 21:19 [It is] better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a
contentious and an angry woman.
Ver. 19. _It is better to dwell in the wilderness._] Among ravenous
beasts and venomous serpents,...
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V. 19. IT IS BETTER TO DWELL IN THE WILDERNESS, far from the
habitations of men, THAN WITH A CONTENTIOUS AND AN ANGRY WOMAN. Cf v.
9....
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IN THE WILDERNESS:
_ Heb._ in the land of the desert...
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THAN, understand, _in a wide house_, as it is expressed above,
PROVERBS 21:9, and as the opposition here requires....
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Proverbs 21:19 Better H2896 dwell H3427 (H8800) wilderness H776 H4057
contentious H4079 (H8675) H4066 angry H3708 woman H802
better - Proverbs 21:9; Psalms 55:6-7, Psalms 120:5-6;...
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CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: Those who follow after righteousness, shall find
righteousness, honor and life.
KEY WORD: Counsel (Proverbs 20:5).
STRONG VERSES:...
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Proverbs 21:1. _The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord; as the
rivers of water, he turneth it whithersoever he will._ The allusion is
probably to the water-meads and the ditches in the corn field...
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_It is better to dwell in the wilderness than with a contentious and
an angry woman._
AN ANGRY WOMAN
I. No social discomfort is to be compared to that of an ill-tempered
wife. A corner of the houset...
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 21:9 Verses Proverbs 21:9 and Proverbs
21:19, on the QUARRELSOME WIFE, begin and end this unit on the rewards
for the wise and the troubles of the wicked.
⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images =...
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_MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 21:18_
THE RANSOM OF THE RIGHTEOUS
This verse must be understood to express the same truth as that in
Isaiah 43:3, in which Jehovah, speaking to the Hebrew people, says,...
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 21:1
THE KING'S HEART IS IN THE HAND OF THE LORD, AS THE RIVERS OF WATER.
We are to think of the little channels used for irrigation. As these
are altogether under the gardener's...
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Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Proverbs 21:1-31.
Proverbs 21:1-31, Solomon declares:
The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water:
he turneth it whithersoever he will (Pro...
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Jeremiah 9:2; Proverbs 21:9; Psalms 120:5; Psalms 120:6; Psalms 55:6;
Psalms 55:7...