George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Proverbs 24:27
House, and support thy family. Before building, great deliberation is requisite, Luke xiv. 28. Those who attempt to instruct others, must first set good example.
House, and support thy family. Before building, great deliberation is requisite, Luke xiv. 28. Those who attempt to instruct others, must first set good example.
Verse Proverbs 24:27. _PREPARE THY WORK WITHOUT_] Do nothing without a _plan_. In _winter_ prepare seed, implements, tackle, geers, c., for _seed-time and harvest_....
i. e., Get an estate into good order before erecting a house on it. To “build a house” may, however, be equivalent (compare Exodus 1:21; Deuteronomy 25:9; Ruth 4:11) to “founding a family;” and the wo...
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...
SECOND DIVISION, PROVERBS 24:23. This section constitutes the second division of the Sayings of the Wise, as Proverbs 24:23 a indicates. It contains a short collection of sayings varying in form and...
_thy work_ viz. the work required for building thy house. Follow the course pursued in the erection of the Temple, 1 Kings 6:7. Comp. 1 Chronicles 28:2, _I had made ready_(the same Heb. word as is her...
PREPARE THY WORK WITHOUT, &C.— He must begin to labour in his field, and perform the works without doors, before he builds his house: he must have wherewith to subsist, before he thinks of a commodiou...
TEXT Proverbs 24:23-34 23. These also are sayings of the wise. To have respect of persons in judgment is not good. 24. He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous, Peoples shall curse him,...
Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house. PREPARE THY WORK WITHOUT, AND MAKE IT FIT FOR THYSELF IN THE FIELD; AND AFTERWARD BUILD THINE...
5. Read, 'A wise man is better than a warrior, and a man of knowledge than a man of strength.'...
Before 'building the house' (i.e. getting married), make proper provision....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 24 V1 Do not be jealous of evil men. Do not try to meet them. V2
This is good, practical advice. You need to work in the fields to grow your crops. Without food, you will die. If you still have energy, afterwards you can build your house. But the person that builds...
PREPARE THY WORK WITHOUT... — Method in work is here advised; first till the ground, and then build the house which will be maintained by the produce of the field. In the spiritual life, too, we shoul...
הָ֘כֵ֤ן בַּ † ח֨וּץ ׀ מְלַאכְתֶּ֗ךָ וְ עַתְּדָ֣הּ...
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...
Prepare thy work outside, and make it fit for thyself in the field; (h) and afterwards build thy house. (h) Be sure of the means how to compass it, before you take any enterprise in hand....
Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house. Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips. Say not, I wi...
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...
PREPARE THY WORK WITHOUT,.... As Solomon did for the building of the temple; timber and stones were prepared, hewed, squared, and fitted for the building before brought thither, 1 Kings 5:18; or dilig...
Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house. Ver. 27. _Prepare thy work without, &c._] God would have all his to be not good men only, but goo...
_Prepare thy work without_ Use both industry and prudence in the management of thy concerns, and do every thing in the proper order. First, mind those things which are most necessary, cultivating the...
V. 27. PREPARE THY WORK WITHOUT AND MAKE IT FIT FOR THYSELF IN THE FIELD, by tilling the soil and laboring for a plentiful harvest first; AND AFTERWARDS BUILD THINE HOUSE, which includes the establish...
This is a domestical precept, requiring both industry and prudence in the management of a man's concerns, that he take care in the first place to furnish himself with cattle and the fruits of the fiel...
Proverbs 24:27 Prepare H3559 (H8685) outside H2351 work H4399 fit H6257 (H8761) field H7704 afterward H310 build
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
_Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house._ PREPARATION; ITS NATURE, OBLIGATION, AND BLESSINGS God loves preparations. God gives little but...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 24:23 Further Sayings of “the Wise.” (See note on 22:17–24:22.) These sayings are grouped in a parallel fashion, as follows:...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 24:27. HOUSE. This word may mean here as it does in Exodus 1:21, Ruth 4:11, 2 Samuel 7:27 etc., the family—the household
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...
1 Kings 5:17; 1 Kings 5:18; 1 Kings 6:7; Luke 14:28...