George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Proverbs 14:20
Many. "Riches make friends, poverty tries them." (Syrus.) --- False friends resemble swallows, which retire at the approach of winter. (Cicero, ad Heren. iv.)
Many. "Riches make friends, poverty tries them." (Syrus.) --- False friends resemble swallows, which retire at the approach of winter. (Cicero, ad Heren. iv.)
Verse Proverbs 14:20. _BUT THE RICH_ HATH _MANY FRIENDS._] Many who _speak_ to him the _language_ of _friendship_; but if they profess _friendship_ because he is _rich_, there is not _one real friend...
The maxim, jarring as it is, represents the generalization of a wide experience; but the words which follow Proverbs 14:21 show that it is not to be taken by itself. In spite of all the selfish morali...
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...
THE POOR. A needy one. Hebrew. _rash._ See note on Proverbs 6:11. THE RICH. a rich man....
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 poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends. THE POOR IS HATED EVEN OF HIS OWN NEIGHBOUR. How inhuman to be the less charitable, just in proportion as the poor, who...
14:20 friends. (i-17) Lit. 'lovers.'...
1. The prosperity of the family depends on the wife (Proverbs 31:10)....
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....
This is terrible! People love a rich man, because they want to benefit from his money. People hate a poor man, because he has nothing to give to them. Christians must not behave like this. See James 2...
THE POOR IS HATED EVEN OF HIS OWN NEIGHBOUR. — This sad experience of life is repeated in Proverbs 19:7. The following verse serves as a corrective of this selfish tendency of mankind....
גַּם ־לְ֭ רֵעֵהוּ יִשָּׂ֣נֵא רָ֑שׁ וְ אֹהֲבֵ֖
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 simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going. A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident. He that is soon angry dealeth foolis...
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 POOR IS HATED EVEN OF HIS OWN NEIGHBOUR,.... As well as of strangers; that is, he is shy of him; he does not care to take any notice of him, or be friendly with him, lest he should be burdensome t...
_The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich [hath] many friends._ Ver. 20. _The poor is hated,_] _i.e., _ Less loved, little respected, as Gen 29:31 Mal 1:5 Luke 14:26. The heathen cou...
_The poor is hated_ That is, despised and abandoned, as hateful persons and things are; _of his own neighbour_ Strictly so called of persons nearest to him, either by habitation or relation, and there...
V. 20. THE POOR IS HATED EVEN OF HIS OWN NEIGHBOR, for the loss of wealth immediately changes the attitude of false friends, who now find their impoverished neighbor obnoxious; BUT THE RICH HATH MANY...
THE RICH HATH MANY FRIENDS: _ Heb._ many are the lovers of the rich...
IS HATED, i.e. despised and abandoned, as hateful persons and things are. HIS OWN NEIGHBOUR; strictly so called, who is nearest to him, either by habitation or by relation, and therefore most obliged...
Proverbs 14:20 poor H7326 (H8802) hated H8130 (H8735) neighbor H7453 rich H6223 many H7227 friends H157 ...
THE TRIUMPH OF TRUTH OVER FALSEHOOD AND OF RIGHTEOUSNESS OVER UNRIGHTEOUSNESS (PROVERBS 14:17). The thought of truth against falsehood undergirds this subsection. It commences with the fact that fools...
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...
_But the rich hath many friends._ FRIENDS IN PROSPERITY Ah! do not be puffed up by any of the successes of this life, do not be spoiled by the number of liveried coachmen that may stop at your door,...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 14:20 THE POOR IS DISLIKED is an observation on how the world works, not an endorsement of such an attitude (see v. Proverbs 14:21; and no
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 14:21. POOR, or “suffering” (_Delitzsch_). _MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 14:20_ AN AGGRAVATED CRIME, A QUESTIONABLE VIRTUE, AND A PRESENT BLESSING I. A FOURFOLD SIN. A man...
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...
Esther 3:2; Esther 5:10; Esther 5:11; Job 19:13; Job 19:14;...
Hated — Despised and abandoned....