"My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me."
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The voice of the teacher to his true disciple. He pleads with him that
the uprightness of the scholar will be the truest answer to all
attacks on the character or teaching of the master....
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V. INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN TO SOLOMON
In the three Chapter s which follow 27-29 we find the change we have
noticed before. These proverbs are addressed to a person and the
phrases “My son” and the persona...
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A collection of aphorisms on various subjects.
PROVERBS 27:3. _cf._ Sir_22:14 f. The comparison suggests that
vexation is out of place. It is the fool that is a bore, not his
anger.
Proverbs 27:4 a...
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MY SON. Marking the Structure (p. 899), as being the Words of the
Wise, _for_ Solomon....
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TEXT Proverbs 27:10-18
10.
Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; And go not to
thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity:
Better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far...
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My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that
reproacheth me.
MY SON, BE WISE ... THAT I MAY ANSWER HIM THAT REPROACHETH ME - as
though my son were a fool, or one badly reare...
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SUNDRY OBSERVATIONS. AGRICULTURE
4. Envy] a husband's jealousy is meant (Song of Solomon 8:6).
5, 6. Men 'hide' (RV) love when they refrain from telling a friend his
faults. An enemy will be 'profus...
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 27
V1 Do not become proud about your plans for tomorrow.
You do not know what will happen tomorrow.
V2 Do not praise yourself!
Let someone e...
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MY SON. — The address of a father to his son, or master to pupil.
THAT I MAY ANSWER HIM THAT REPROACHETH ME for having brought you up
badly when he sees you ignorant or ill-behaved. So Christians are...
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חֲכַ֣ם בְּ֭נִי וְ שַׂמַּ֣ח לִבִּ֑י וְ
אָשִׁ֖יבָה חֹרְפִ֣י דָבָֽר׃...
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CHAPTER 28
LIVING DAY BY DAY
"Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day will
bring forth."- Proverbs 27:1
"The grave and destruction are never satisfied; and the eyes of men
a...
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“HEARTY COUNSEL”
Proverbs 27:1-22
The keyword in this paragraph is _friends_, Proverbs 27:6; Proverbs
27:9-10; Proverbs 27:14; Proverbs 27:17; Proverbs 19:1-29.
Friends, according to the original s...
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Verse Proverbs 27:5. This proverb takes for granted the need for
rebuke, and by 'love that is hidden" is meant a love which fails to
rebuke.
Verse Proverbs 27:14. There is nothing more calculated to...
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_Thou. Hebrew, Complutensian, and Sixtus V, "I may," &c. Septuagint,
"and cast reproaches from thee."_...
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My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that
reproacheth me. A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself;
but the simple pass on, and are punished. Take his garment tha...
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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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MY SON, BE WISE, AND MAKE MY HEART GLAD,.... That is, show thyself to
be a wise man by thy words and actions; endeavour to get a good share
of wisdom and knowledge, and make a good use of it, and that...
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My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that
reproacheth me.
Ver. 11. _My son, be wise, and make my heart glad._] _See Trapp on "_
Pro 10:1 _"_...
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My son, be wise and make my heart glad, the inspired author again
addressing all his readers in the tone of fatherly admonition, THAT I
MAY ANSWER HIM THAT REPROACHETH ME, since the wise behavior of a...
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HERE THE SUBJECT matter is completely changed. No longer is the
outside opposition of the enemy found, but any dangers now considered
are those arising from the state of our own hearts. This third sec...
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For being the father of a wicked son, as if I had either deserved him
as a curse from God, or made him so by my example, or by the neglect
of his education. See EZEKIEL 16:44 1 THESSALONIANS 3:4....
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Proverbs 27:11 son H1121 wise H2449 (H8798) heart H3820 glad H8055
(H8761) answer H7725 (H8686) H1697 reproaches H2778 (H8802)
be wise - Proverbs 10:1, Proverbs 15:20, Proverbs 23:15-16,...
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Proverbs 27:1. _Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not
what a day may bring forth._
Let us never boast of future days and years, or what we mean to do
when we come to any age, or what sh...
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CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions.
CHARACTERS: Solomon, his son.
CONCLUSION: (Principal lesson.) Use the present time with diligence
and wisdom and presume not upon tomorrow. We should speak of th...
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Proverbs 27:2. _Let another man praise thee._ A man is sometimes
compelled to speak of himself. But modesty often prefers speaking in
the third person; as St. John, who says, “that disciple whom Jesus...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 27:8. PLACE, rather “_home_.”
Proverbs 27:9. This verse is obscurely rendered in the English
version. Delitzsch translates “_Oil and frankincense rejoice the
heart, and the...
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 27:1
These verses are grouped in pairs, each two being connected in
subject.
PROVERBS 27:1
BOAST NOT THYSELF OF TOMORROW. He boasts himself (Proverbs 25:14) of
tomorrow who coun...
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Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may
bring foRuth (Proverbs 27:1).
Very good. This is, of course, the idea is taken up in the New
Testament book of James. He said, "Go...
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2 John 1:4; Ecclesiastes 2:18; Philemon 1:19; Philemon 1:20; Philemon
1:7; Proverbs 10:1; Proverbs 15:20; Proverbs 23:15; Proverbs 23:16;...
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MAKING THE MOST OF LIFE
Proverbs 27:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
God has given to each of us a life freighted with many privileges and
with many opportunities. There is a little verse in the New Testament...
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Reproacheth — For being the father of a wicked son....