George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Proverbs 24:14
Thou shalt. Hebrew, "yea, it is the last." (Montanus) --- "Then there shall be a reward." (Protestants) --- Thou shalt enjoy old age, or have posterity. (Calmet)
Thou shalt. Hebrew, "yea, it is the last." (Montanus) --- "Then there shall be a reward." (Protestants) --- Thou shalt enjoy old age, or have posterity. (Calmet)
Verse Proverbs 24:14. _SO_ SHALL _THE KNOWLEDGE OF WISDOM_ BE _UNTO THY SOUL_] True religion, experimental godliness, shall be to thy soul as the honey-comb is to thy mouth. _THEN THERE SHALL BE A R...
THE KNOWLEDGE OF WISDOM - Better, Know that thus (like the honey) is wisdom to thy soul....
CHAPTER 24 INSTRUCTIONS CONTINUED In the final instructions of this chapter we find first a description of the evil men. Their heart studieth destruction; their lips talk mischief. This theme is repea...
PROVERBS 24:7 A. Lit. Wisdom is corals to the fool. RV involves a change m the text, which gives perhaps the best sense that can be made of an obviously corrupt stanza. Proverbs 24:9. thought: the wor...
CUT OFF. Compare Proverbs 24:20 with Proverbs 23:18....
_so shall the knowledge of wisdom be_ Rather, SO KNOW WISDOM TO BE. With like avidity as you eat honey (Proverbs 24:13), know, get to know, pursue the knowledge of, wisdom. Comp. Psalms 19:10 (Hebrews...
MY SON, EAT THOU HONEY, &C.— It is well known in how high esteem honey was among the ancients for food, for drink, for medicine, for preserving of dead bodies, and particularly for infants. See Isaiah...
TEXT Proverbs 24:13-22 13. My son, eat thou honey, for it is good; And the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to thy taste: 14. So shalt thou know wisdom to be unto thy soul; If thou ha...
My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste: EAT THOU HONEY, BECAUSE IT IS GOOD (A GRACIOUS INVITATION TO PARTAKE OF THE SPIRITUAL HONEY, ; PSALMS 19:...
24:14 consider (g-2) Or 'know.'...
5. Read, 'A wise man is better than a warrior, and a man of knowledge than a man of strength.'...
Honey was a valuable food. Other foods do not taste like honey. And honey is useful as a food and as a medicine. Wisdom is also special. Wisdom is precious. Sometimes we must study hard to become wis...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 24 V1 Do not be jealous of evil men. Do not try to meet them. V2
SO SHALL THE KNOWLEDGE OF WISDOM BE UNTO THY SOUL. — Rather, _Know_ (or understand) _that wisdom is such_ (equally sweet and good) _for thy soul._ A REWARD. — Literally, _a future._ (Comp. Proverbs 2...
כֵּ֤ן ׀ דְּעֶ֥ה חָכְמָ֗ה לְ נַ֫פְשֶׁ֥ךָ אִם ־
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 hi...
Warnings are uttered against envy, against the formation of evil companionships, against excess in passion, against all false exhilaration; and perperpetual attention to wisdom and earnest endeavor to...
If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that k...
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...
SO [SHALL] THE KNOWLEDGE OF WISDOM [BE] UNTO THY SOUL,.... Or let it be taken in as greedily and with as good an appetite; as pleasant, useful, delightful, and profitable; even the knowledge of Christ...
_My son, eat thou honey_ This is not a command, but a concession, and is here expressed only to illustrate the following verse. Do not slight, much less nauseate, such precepts as these; but, as honey...
V. 14. SO SHALL THE KNOWLEDGE OF WISDOM BE UNTO THY SOUL, altogether agreeable and full of rich nourishment and therefore well worth acquiring; WHEN THOU HAST FOUND IT, THEN THERE SHALL BE A REWARD, A...
TO THY TASTE: _ Heb._ upon thy palate...
WHEN THOU HAST FOUND IT; whereby he implies that there is indeed some difficulty and trouble in the pursuit of wisdom, but that it is abundantly compensated with the sweetness and advantage of it when...
Proverbs 24:14 knowledge H3045 (H8798) wisdom H2451 soul H5315 found H4672 (H8804) is H3426 prospect H319 hope...
CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: If wicked people prosper, we should not be inclined to do as they do, nor complain of what God does in His provide...
Proverbs 24:1. _Be not envious against evil men._ Similar thoughts occur in Psalms 37:1; Psalms 73; Proverbs 17:1. Why should we envy the wicked? We are all g
_So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul._ SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE I. It is wholesome. “My son, eat thou honey, because it is good.” Honey was one of the choice productions of Canaan. It was us...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 24:13 Just as HONEY is SWEET to the taste and good for the body, so WISDOM is pleasant to the SOUL that feeds on i
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 24:14. THERE SHALL BE A REWARD, rather, “_there is a future_,” as in chap. Proverbs 23:18. _MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 24:13_ HONEY AND WISDOM I. An ana
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 24:1 We return here to the more usual form, the tetrastich. BE NOT THOU ENVIOUS AGAINST EVIL MEN (see on Proverbs 23:17, where a similar warning is given, and comp....
Again, he continues in twenty-four in putting them together in couplets or in phrases. Be not envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. For their heart studies destruction, and their...
James 1:25; Jeremiah 15:16; Matthew 19:21; Proverbs 2:10; Proverbs 2:
A reward — It is not only sweet for the present, but brings a sure and everlasting reward....