George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Proverbs 19:23
Life. Both temporal and eternal, chap. x. 27. (Calmet) --- With evil. Literally, "the worst," pessima. (Haydock) --- Sixtus V, "by the most wicked one." The devil shall have no power over him.
Life. Both temporal and eternal, chap. x. 27. (Calmet) --- With evil. Literally, "the worst," pessima. (Haydock) --- Sixtus V, "by the most wicked one." The devil shall have no power over him.
SHALL ABIDE SATISFIED - Better, one that is satisfied hath a sure abiding-place. The word “abide” has, most probably, here as elsewhere, its original sense of “passing the night.” Even in the hour of...
III. INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN TO SOLOMON CHAPTER 19:20-29 Beginning with the twentieth verse of chapter 19 the personal address begins again and we read repeatedly the phrase “My son” up to the twenty-fif...
CHAPTER 19:1-19 FURTHER PROVERBS ON PERSONAL INSTRUCTION One may be poor, but walking in integrity, he is far ahead of him who is perverse in his lips and is a fool. Then we find proverbs about frett...
PROVERBS 19. A shrewd turn of sarcasm in Proverbs 19:3 suggests the attitude of practical wisdom towards that questioning of the moral government of the world which we find in Job. PROVERBS 19:1. FOO...
THE FEAR OF THE LORD. See note on Proverbs 1:7. LIFE. Hebrew, plural implying resurrection and eternal life. EVIL. Hebrew. _ra'a'._ App-44....
THE FEAR OF THE LORD TENDETH TO LIFE— _The fear of the Lord tendeth to life; he who is filled with it shall sleep, or pass his nights free from all evil._ Houbigant. Schultens, whom Dr. Grey follows,...
TEXT Proverbs 19:21-29 21. There are many devices in a man's heart; But the counsel of Jehovah, that shall stand. 22. That which maketh a man to be desired is his kindness; And a poor man is bet...
The fear of the LORD tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil. THE FEAR OF THE LORD (TENDETH) TO LIFE; AND (HE THAT HATH IT) SHALL ABIDE (HEBREW...
19:23 rest (h-14) Or 'dwell.'...
1. FOOL] read, 'rich' (Proverbs 28:6)....
We must respect God - see Proverbs 1:7. If we respect God, then God will help us. When troubles come, he will protect us. See Psalms 46:1....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 19 V1 A man may be poor but he still remains honest. He is better than the fool, whose words are false....
THE FEAR OF THE LORD TENDETH TO LIFE. — To life in this world, the reward of uprightness promised to the Israelites of old (Isaiah 37:29); and to life in the next (Mark 10:30). HE SHALL NOT BE VISITED...
יִרְאַ֣ת יְהוָ֣ה לְ חַיִּ֑ים וְ שָׂבֵ֥עַ יָ֝ל
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 20 HUMAN FREEDOM "The foolishness of man subverteth his way; And his heart fretteth against the Lord."- Proverbs 19:3 THERE is such a valuable expansion and commentary on this proverb in th...
Verse Proverbs 19:7. This is the only case in this first collection of proverbs in which we find three clauses. It is certainly most likely that the third clause is incomplete. Something has been lost...
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD. Slothfulness...
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 FEAR OF THE LORD [TENDETH] TO LIFE,.... "Godliness", of which the fear of the Lord is a principal part, has "the promise of this life and that to come", 1 Timothy 4:8: the fear of God is the begin...
The fear of the LORD [tendeth] to life: and [he that hath it] shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil. Ver. 23. _The fear of the Lord tendeth to life, &c._] Life, saturity, _a_ and s...
_The desire of a man is his kindness_ This expression is obscure, and will admit of several interpretations. The Seventy render it, Καρπος ανδρι ελεημοσυνη, _alms-giving_, or _charity, is fruit to a m...
V. 23. THE FEAR OF THE LORD TENDETH TO LIFE, it shows and points the way to the true life in the Lord; AND HE THAT HATH IT SHALL ABIDE SATISFIED; HE SHALL NOT BE VISITED WITH EVIL, because Jehovah wil...
SHALL ABIDE SATISFIED; shall want nothing, and shall be fully contented with God's favour and blessing. WITH EVIL; with any destructive affliction....
Proverbs 19:23 fear H3374 LORD H3068 life H2416 abide H3885 (H8799) satisfaction H7649 visited H6485 (H8735) ev
FEAR (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 19:9). _...
CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: If we keep God's Word, God's Word will keep us from all things that are really hurtful. Those who despise the ways of His W...
Proverbs 19:1. _Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity,_ in simplicity and honesty of heart, than a fool whose tongue is perverse, and whose body is swoln with corpulency. The contrast of me...
_The fear of the Lord tendeth to life._ THE HAPPY LIFE Godliness has “the promise of the life that now is.” It might have been otherwise. Infinite Benevolence would have His saints to be happy. As G...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 19:22. THE DESIRE OF A MAN, &c. Rather “_A man’s delight_ (or glory) _is his beneficence_, or _A man’s kindness is what makes him desirable_, or _is a desirable adornment_....
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 19:1 BETTER IS THE POOR THAT WALKTH IN HIS INTEGRITY. The word for "poor" is, here and in Proverbs 19:7, Proverbs 19:22, _rash, _which signifie
Better is the poor that walks in his integrity [or in honesty], than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool. Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with...
1 Timothy 4:8; 1 Timothy 6:6; 2 Timothy 4:18; Acts 9:31; Hebrews 13:5;
Satisfied — Shall be fully contented with God's favour and blessing....