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Verse Proverbs 24:9. _THE THOUGHT OF FOOLISHNESS_ IS _SIN_] זמת
אולת חטאת _zimmath ivveleth chattath_. "The device of folly is
transgression;" or, "an evil purpose is sinful;" or, perhaps more
literal...
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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...
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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...
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THOUGHT, &C. Compare Proverbs 4:23.Job 1:5.Jeremiah 4:14.Matthew 9:3;
Matthew
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_foolishness_ i.e. FOOLS: abstract for concrete.
_and_ "Or, _but the scorner_. Perhaps the meaning is that the very
_purpose_of evil is sinful in the sight of God; but the bold and
insolent transgres...
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CHAPTER 24
TEXT Proverbs 24:1-12
1.
Be not thou envious against evil men;
Neither desire to be with them:
2.
For their heart studieth oppression,
And their lips talk of mischief.
3.
Through wi...
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The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination
to men.
THE THOUGHT (HEBREW, zimat (H2154 ); LITERALLY, EVIL OR MISCHIEVOUS
COUNSEL) OF FOOLISHNESS (I:E., OF THE MAN OF FOOLIS...
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5. Read, 'A wise man is better than a warrior, and a man of knowledge
than a man of strength.'...
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 24
V1 Do not be jealous of evil men.
Do not try to meet them.
V2
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This man makes evil plots. And the people hate him. They hate him
because all his ideas are evil. Perhaps he wants to cause trouble. Or
perhaps he wants to benefit himself unfairly.
V10 If troubles m...
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THE THOUGHT OF FOOLISHNESS IS SIN. — Rather, _Sin is the
contrivance_ (_plotting_)_ of self-will._ Sin is the “transgression
of the law” of God (1 John 3:4), when we desert the plain rule of
duty, and...
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זִמַּ֣ת אִוֶּ֣לֶת חַטָּ֑את וְ
תֹועֲבַ֖ת לְ אָ
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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...
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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...
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Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.
For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it...
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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...
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THE THOUGHTS OF FOOLISHNESS [IS] SIN,.... The thought of sin is sin e,
before it comes into action; the motions of sin in the mind, the
workings of corrupt nature in the heart, the sinful desires of t...
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The thought of foolishness [is] sin: and the scorner [is] an
abomination to men.
Ver. 9. _The thought of foolishness is sin._] The schools do well
observe, that outward sins are _maioris infamiae,_ o...
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_He that deviseth, &c., shall be called mischievous_ Hebrew, בעל
מזמות, _a master of crafts or mischiefs._ Though he cover his
wicked devices with fair pretences, and wishes to be better esteemed,
he...
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V. 9. THE THOUGHT OF FOOLISHNESS, literally, "the meditation of
folly," IS SIN, that is, even when folly tries to perform something
with prudent reflection, the result is the same, a transgression of...
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THE THOUGHT OF FOOLISHNESS IS SIN; the very inward thought or
contrivance of evil, of which he spake PROVERBS 24:8, even before it
break forth into action, it is a sin in God's sight, and it is hatefu...
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Proverbs 24:9 devising H2154 foolishness H200 sin H2403 scoffer H3887
(H8801) abomination H8441 men H120
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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...
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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
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_The thought of foolishness is sin._
THE NATURE OF EVIL THOUGHTS
I. What is meant by the “thought of foolishness”? Folly and sin
signify the same thing in Scripture. We are not to understand thoughts...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 24:7. WISDOM IS TOO HIGH, etc. Delitzsch here reads, _Wisdom
seems to the fool to be an ornamental commodity_, and thinks “the
comparison lies in the rarity, costliness, and...
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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....
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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...
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2 Corinthians 10:5; Acts 8:22; Genesis 6:5; Genesis 8:21; Isaiah 55:7;...
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The thought — The very inward thought or contrivance of evil, is a
sin in God's sight....