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CHAPTER 17 DIVERSE PROVERBS
Of the twenty-eight proverbs found in this chapter we point out but a
few. “The fining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold; but the
LORD trieth the hearts” (Proverbs...
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PROVERBS 17. Fresh points are the rise of the able and clever slave to
a place in the family (Proverbs 17:2), the practice of bribes
(Proverbs 17:8; Proverbs 17:23), the value of adversity as a test o...
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FOOL. Hebrew. _nabal,_ as in Proverbs 17:1....
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_a fool … a fool_ The Heb. word so rendered is not the same in the
two clauses of the verse. The first word in the first clause describes
the fool as _dull_or _senseless_, or as some think _obstinate_...
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TEXT Proverbs 17:20-28
20.
He that hath a wayward heart findeth no good;
And he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.
21.
He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow;
And the fa...
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17:21 [man] (g-17) _ Nabal_ . see Note l, ver. 7....
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1. Lit. 'the sacrifices of strife.' There would be no pleasure in the
festal meal which followed a sacrifice (Proverbs 7:14) if it was
accompanied with a quarrel. 'A little with quiet is the only diet...
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 17
V1 One man eats dry bread in a calm and quiet place.
But that man’s meal is better than the food at a party where there
are arguments....
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A fool hates God, and hates wisdom. By ‘fool’, Solomon means
someone who is evil. Because the son is evil, the father suffers. The
father might suffer, because the son makes evil plans against his
fat...
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HE THAT BEGETTETH A FOOL (_khesîl_)_. — _See above, on Proverbs
1:32.
THE FATHER OF A FOOL (_nâbhâl_)_. — _See above, on Proverbs 17:7....
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יֹלֵ֣ד כְּ֭סִיל לְ ת֣וּגָה לֹ֑ו וְ
לֹֽא
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CHAPTER 18
FRIENDSHIP
"A friend loveth at all times, and as a brother is born for
adversity."- Proverbs 17:17 This rendering, based upon the margin of
the R.V, yields a much better sense than the lo...
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CHAPTER 25
FORGIVING
"Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause, and deceive not
with thy lips. Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me; I
will render to the man according to h...
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Verse Proverbs 17:3. Two important thoughts are suggested by this
proverb. First, that the heart will yield to no force other than that
of God. Dross in metal may be discovered and expurged by fire, b...
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A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the
presence of his friend. He loveth transgression that loveth strife:
and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction. He that ha...
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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
followe...
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HE THAT BEGETTETH A FOOL [DOTH IT] TO HIS SORROW,.... As it proves in
the issue; though it was joy to him when a man child was born, and
took delight in him while in infancy and childhood, and promise...
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He that begetteth a fool [doeth it] to his sorrow: and the father of a
fool hath no joy.
Ver. 21. _He that begetteth a fool, doeth it to his sorrow._] Solomon
might speak this by experience, and wish...
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V. 21. HE THAT BEGETTETH A FOOL DOETH IT TO HIS SORROW, he is most
unfortunate to have a fool for his son; AND THE FATHER OF A FOOL HATH
NO JOY. Proverbs 10:1; Proverbs 18:13....
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A FOOL; not a natural, but a wilful fool, or a wicked son. THE FATHER;
and consequently the mother also. HATH NO JOY, which parents usually
have in the birth of a child, and especially of a son; but h...
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Proverbs 17:21 begets H3205 (H8802) scoffer H3684 sorrow H8424 father
H1 fool H5036 joy H8055 (H8799)...
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THE WAYS OF THE FOOL (PROVERBS 17:16).
The main emphasis in this subsection is on the ways of the fool
(Proverbs 17:16; Proverbs 17:21), the man void of mind (heart) ...
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CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: About the most satisfactory substitute for wisdom is
silence. Discretion of speech is better than fluency of speech.
KEY W...
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Proverbs 17:1. _Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith._ See
Proverbs 15:17.
Proverbs 17:3. _The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace_ (or
crucible) _for gold._ Silver ores in Mexico are...
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 17:1
(Comp, Proverbs 15:16, Proverbs 15:17; Proverbs 16:8.) Better
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Better is a dry morsel, with quietness, than a house full of
sacrifices with strife (Proverbs 17:1).
Now the house full of sacrifices refer to the sacrifices. It's, if in
that economy the of the Judai...
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1 Samuel 2:32; 1 Samuel 8:3; 2 Corinthians 2:3; 2 Samuel 18:33; 3