Commentary Critical and Explanatory
Proverbs 16:16
How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!
No JFB commentary on this verse.
How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!
No JFB commentary on this verse.
Verse Proverbs 16:16. _HOW MUCH BETTER - TO GET WISDOM THAN GOLD?_] Who believes this, though spoken by the wisest of men, under Divine inspiration?...
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; b...
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....
WISDOM. Hebrew. _chakmah._ See note on Proverbs 1:2. UNDERSTANDING. Hebrew. _binah._ See note on Proverbs 1:2....
_rather to be chosen_ Better, IS RATHER &c. It is the _acquisition_of wisdom or understanding that is commended in both clauses of the verse, which are exactly parallel....
TEXT Proverbs 16:12-22 12. It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness; For the throne is established by righteousness. 13. Righteous lips are the delight of kings; And they love him that...
1-9. God's control of human life....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 16 The subject of the book now begins to change. In earlier Chapter s, the main subject is the difference between wise actions and evil action...
Gold, silver and money are not really valuable. If we only want to earn money, then we are wasting our lives. Wisdom and knowledge are really valuable. Especially, we should learn how to respect God....
קְֽנֹה ־חָכְמָ֗ה מַה ־טֹּ֥וב מֵ חָר֑וּץ וּ
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...
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...
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...
_Get. Septuagint, "the nests of wisdom....and the nests of prudence;" or Churches of Christ, or places of education, may be intended. (Calmet)_...
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right. A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps. A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth trans...
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...
HOW MUCH BETTER [IS IT] TO GET WISDOM THAN GOLD?.... To obtain and possess Christ, the fountain of wisdom, in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, which treasures are infinitely pre...
How much better [is it] to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver! Ver. 16. _How much better is it to get wisdom than gold,_] _q.d., _ It is unspeakably better...
_How much better is it_ It is inexpressibly and inconceivably better _to get wisdom than gold_ Because it brings a man more certain, and complete, and lasting comfort and advantage. _The way of the up...
V. 16. HOW MUCH BETTER IS IT TO GET WISDOM THAN GOLD! its value being so immeasurably greater, AND TO GET UNDERSTANDING RATHER TO BE CHOSEN THAN SILVER! If a person should gain the wealth of the whole...
HOW MUCH BETTER! it is inexpressibly and unconceivably better, as this phrase implies, PSALMS 31:19, PSALMS 36:7 92:5, &c. IS IT TO GET WISDOM THAN GOLD, because it brings a man more certain, and comp...
Proverbs 16:16 better H2896 get H7069 (H8800) wisdom H2451 gold H2742 get H7069 (H8800) understanding H998 chose
WISDOM IS TO BE SOUGHT AND PRIDE MUST BE AVOIDED BY THE ONE WHO WOULD WALK IN THE RIGHT WAY WITH TRUST IN YHWH (PROVERBS 16:16). In this subsection the envelopes of wisdom (Proverbs 16:16) - pride (Pr...
Proverbs 16:16 I. Better than gold! But gold is good, very good, and he who would put forward with success the far higher worth of wisdom had better not begin his argument by putting too low an estima...
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....
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...
_How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! _ WISDOM BETTER THAN WEALTH I. The difference between wisdom and understanding. It is like that which exists between the moving and the acting power, b...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 16:10 The remaining sections of ch. Proverbs 16:1 illustrate the benefits of wisdom for the well-being of the heart (vv....
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 16:16 The “better” sayings of vv. Proverbs 16:16 and Proverbs 16:19 value
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 16:10. A DIVINE SENTENCE, literally _“divination,” i.e., “an oracle_” or “_a decision_.” “HIS MOUTH TRANSGRESSETH NOT.” Stuart and Delitzsch read, “_In judgment his mouth sh...
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...
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...
Ecclesiastes 7:12; Job 28:13; Luke 12:21; Matthew 16:26; Prover