George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Proverbs 14:14
Above him, Septuagint, "with content sorrow is not mixed." (Haydock) --- Joy. Such is the condition of earthly things. (Pindar, Pyth. viii.)
Above him, Septuagint, "with content sorrow is not mixed." (Haydock) --- Joy. Such is the condition of earthly things. (Pindar, Pyth. viii.)
Verse Proverbs 14:14. _THE BACKSLIDER IN HEART SHALL BE FILLED WITH HIS OWN_ _WAYS_] 1. Who is the _backslider_? סוג sug. 1) The man who once walked in the ways of religion, but has _withdrawn_ from...
SHALL BE SATISFIED - These words are not in the original. Repeat the verb from the first clause, “He who falls away from God in his heart, shall be filled with his own ways; and the good man (shall be...
CHAPTER 14 THE WISE AND THE FOOLISH: THE RICH AND THE POOR The contrast now concerns the wise and the foolish, the rich and the poor. Let us see some of these contrasts. “In the mouth of the foolish i...
PROVERBS 14. In this, as in each of the preceding Chapter s in this section, aphorisms on the moral government of the world come first in number. There are rather more in this chapter of a political a...
FILLED. satisfied. FROM HIMSELF. Ginsburg thinks, "from his own doings. "Compare Jeremiah 17:10....
DISCOURSE: 786 THE DANGER OF BACKSLIDING Proverbs 14:14. _The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself_. THOUGH God does not select those...
AND A GOOD MAN SHALL BE SATISFIED FROM HIMSELF— _And a good man with his own works._ Houbigant....
TEXT Proverbs 14:13-24 13. Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; And the end of mirth is heaviness. 14. The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways; And a good man shall be sati...
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself. THE BACKSLIDER IN HEART () SHALL BE FILLED WITH HIS OWN WAYS - (note .) Not one who turns...
1. The prosperity of the family depends on the wife (Proverbs 31:10)....
We get our deserts. THE BACKSLIDER IN HEART is he who forsakes God....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 14 V1 The wise woman builds her house. The foolish woman pulls down her own house with her own hands....
Here, Solomon compares a good man with a man who turns away from God. A good man receives good things, because he deserves good things. An evil man receives evil things, because he deserves evil thin...
THE BACKSLIDER IN HEART — _i.e._, who turns away from God. (Psalms 44:19.) SHALL BE FILLED WITH HIS OWN WAYS. — (Comp. Proverbs 1:31, and Matthew 6:2, &c: “They have their reward.”) They get to the fu...
מִ דְּרָכָ֣יו יִ֭שְׂבַּע ס֣וּג לֵ֑ב וּ֝ מֵ
CHAPTER 15 THE INWARD UNAPPROACHABLE LIFE "The heart knoweth its own bitterness and a stranger doth not intermeddle with its joy."- Proverbs 14:10 "Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful, and the...
Verse Proverbs 14:7. The sense of this proverb is entirely altered in the Revision. The Authorized reading would make it mean that if a man is perceived to be devoid of knowledge he should be abandone...
The backslider in heart (i) shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man [shall be satisfied] from himself. (i) He who forsakes God will be punished, and made weary of his sins, in which he deli...
The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy. The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish. There is a way wh...
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...
THE BACKSLIDER IN HEART SHALL BE FILLED WITH HIS OWN WAYS,.... One that is a backslider at heart, whose heart departeth from the Lord; in whom there is an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the...
_The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man [shall be satisfied] from himself._ Ver. 14. _The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways._] He hath made a ma...
_The backslider in heart_ He who departs from God, although but inwardly; _shall be filled with his own ways_ With the fruit of his ways, namely, the punishment of his sins; _and a good man shall be s...
V. 14. THE BACKSLIDER IN HEART, he who is of a perverse, malicious heart, who has departed from God in his heart, SHALL BE FILLED WITH HIS OWN WAYS, he will be surfeited with the consequences of his o...
THE BACKSLIDER IN HEART; he who departeth from God and from the way of his precepts with all his heart, which implies the doing it upon deliberation, with free choice, and full purpose, and customary...
Proverbs 14:14 backslider H5472 (H8803) heart H3820 filled H7646 (H8799) ways H1870 good H2896 man H376...
WE ARE TO FOLLOW THE WAYS OF THE WISE AND SHREWD, NOT THE WAYS OF THE FOOLISH (PROVERBS 14:7). The whole emphasis of Proverbs is on following God's wisdom. By doing so the shrewd man understands his w...
Proverbs 14:14 I. The good man's satisfaction arises from the circumstance that he is regulated in his character and conduct by a fixed and stable thing, by principle. In contemplating anything to be...
CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The house of the wicked, though built ever so strong and high, shall be brought to disgrace and at length made extinct. The...
Proverbs 14:1. _Every wise woman buildeth her house,_ as Proverbs 9:1, by training up her children to industry, piety and virtue. She is their first governess, and daily instils the elements of knowle...
_The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways._ THE BACK-SLIDER IN HEART I. The general nature, symptoms, and progress of backsliding. The idea of backsliding is that of gradually recedi...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 14:8 This section begins and ends with contrasts between the PRUDENT (vv. Proverbs 14:8,...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 14:14. FILLED WITH, _i.e._, “satisfied with.” Stuart translates the latter clause, “Away from him is the good man,” _i.e._, he will keep aloof from the backslider. _MAIN HO...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 14:1 EVERY WISE WOMAN BUILDETH HER HOUSE. Wise women order well their household matters and their families; they have an important influence, and exercise it beneficially. Γυναι...
Continuation of the contrasting of goodness and evil. Every wise woman (Proverbs 14:1) And wise and foolish contrasted always, too. Every wise woman builds her house (Proverbs 14:1): She takes care...
2 Corinthians 1:12; 2 Peter 2:20; Ezekiel 22:31; Galatians 6:4;...
In heart — He who departs from God inwardly. Filled — With the fruit of his ways, the punishment of his sins. Satisfied — From the pious temper of his own heart, which cleaves to the Lord, he shall re...