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Verse Proverbs 27:8. _AS A BIRD THAT WANDERETH FROM HER NEST_] Leaving
her own brood, places of retreat, and feeding-ground behind, and going
into strange countries, where she is exposed to every kind...
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Change of place is thought of as in itself an evil. It is not easy for
the man to find another home or the bird another nest. The maxim is
characteristic of the earlier stages of Hebrew history, befor...
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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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"The true bird-life is the life of the woods, of the toilsomely-woven
nest, of the mate and the brood and the fledglings.… True human life
is the life of our fellows, of the diligent laborious housebu...
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AS A BIRD THAT WANDERETH— He who quits his country, his dwelling,
his house, is as a bird which quits its nest. He is exposed to a
thousand dangers and difficulties. The Jews were very much attached t...
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CHAPTER 27
TEXT Proverbs 27:1-9
1.
Boast not thyself of tomorrow;
For thou knowest now what a day may bring forth.
2.
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth;
A stranger, and not th...
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As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth
from his place.
AS A BIRD THAT WANDERETH FROM HER NEST, (SO IS) A MAN THAT WANDERETH
FROM HIS PLACE. The bird, by needless AS A BI...
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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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A MAN THAT WANDERETH FROM HIS PLACE. — That wandereth forth as an
exile that has lost his home. Comp. Genesis 12:4, and, on the
contrary, Job’s hope that he would “die in his nest” (Proverbs
29:18). F...
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כְּ֭ צִפֹּור נֹודֶ֣דֶת מִן ־קִנָּ֑הּ
כֵּֽן ־אִ֝֗ישׁ נֹודֵ֥ד מִ מְּקֹומֹֽו׃...
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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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_Place, or vocation, like the prodigal son, Luke xv. The Israelites
were much attached to their own country, where they might practise the
true religion. (Calmet)_...
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Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and
not thine own lips. A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a
fool's wrath is heavier than them both. Wrath is cruel, and ange...
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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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AS A BIRD THAT WANDERETH FROM HER NEST,.... To seek for food for
herself and her young; or that leaves it without returning to it, and
so her eggs or her young are exposed, and she herself liable to f...
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As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so [is] a man that wandereth
from his place.
Ver. 8. _As a bird that wandereth from her nest._] Doth it of
inconstancy, and oft meets with misery: whereas God...
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_As a bird that wandereth from her nest_ That flies very much abroad
from place to place, whereby she is exposed to all the arts of
fowlers, and to birds of prey; _so is a man that wandereth from his...
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EXALTATION OF SELF LEADS TO FOLLY...
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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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THAT WANDERETH FROM HER NEST; that flies very much abroad from place
to place, whereby she is exposed to all the arts of fowlers, and to
birds of prey, from which she is safe whilst she keeps her nest...
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Proverbs 27:8 bird H6833 wanders H5074 (H8802) nest H7064 man H376
wanders H5074 (H8802) place H4725
a bird - Job 39:14-16; Isaiah 16:2
man - Proverbs 21:16; Genesis 4:16,...
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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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_As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth
from his _place.
THE INCONVENIENCE AND DANGER OF PERSONS BEING LONG ABSENT FROM HOME
Nothing that affects our religious interests...
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 27:7 Each of these four proverbs teaches
an element of wisdom that stands on its own, but they have additional
use when taken together. Verses Proverbs 27:7 and Proverbs 27:9...
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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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1 Corinthians 7:20; 1 Kings 19:9; 1 Samuel 22:5; 1 Samuel 27:1;
Genesis 16:6; Genesis 4:16; Isaiah 16:2; Job 39:14; Jonah 1:10; Jonah
1:3;...
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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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Wandereth — That flies from place to place, whereby she is exposed
to all the arts of fowlers, and to birds of prey. So — So is he who
through vanity or lightness changes his abode, or his calling....