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Verse Proverbs 15:30. _THE LIGHT OF THE EYES REJOICETH THE HEART_]
Nature and art are continually placing before our view a multitude of
the most resplendent images, each of which is calculated to giv...
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THE LIGHT OF THE EYES - The brightness which shines in the eyes of one
whose heart and face are alike full of joy. Such a look acts with a
healing and quickening power. Compare Proverbs 16:15.
A GOOD...
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CHAPTER 15 THE BETTER THINGS
One can read through the proverbs recorded in this chapter and ask the
question, What are the better things?
A soft answer which turneth away wrath is better than grievou...
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PROVERBS 15. This chapter makes no new departure. Proverbs concerning
the moral government of the world again occupy the chief place. One
(Proverbs 15:11) is noteworthy as showing an extended concepti...
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_The light of the eyes_ This is sometimes understood to mean the
beaming eyes of kindly regard with which others look upon us (comp.
the phrase "the light of the countenance," Psalms 4:6 [Hebrews 7];...
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THE LIGHT OF THE EYES REJOICETH THE HEART— _The light of the eyes
refresheth the mind; a good report the marrow of the bones._
Houbigant. In the same manner that the sensible light rejoices a sound
ey...
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TEXT Proverbs 15:23-33
23.
A man hath joy in the answer of his mouth;
And a word in due season, how good is it!
24.
To the wise the way of life goeth upward,
That he may depart from Sheol beneat...
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The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: and a good report maketh
the bones fat.
THE LIGHT OF THE EYES (THE EYES OF A GREAT MAN REGARDING ONE WITH
FAVOUR, ; ESPECIALLY THE "LIGHT OF GOD'S COUNTEN...
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1. GRIEVOUS] i.e. annoying. 'If one pour in hot water let the other
pour in cold.'...
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THE LIGHT OF THE EYES] i.e. good fortune....
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 15
V1 A quiet answer reduces anger.
But an impatient word increases anger....
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Even our smiling faces can cheer other people! People are glad, if we
smile.
Our words can achieve more than our happy faces. The Christian message
is good news. God can change people’s lives. He wil...
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THE LIGHT OF THE EYES... — It does the heart good to see one whose
eyes are sparkling with happiness.
A GOOD REPORT. — Good news, affecting either oneself or others....
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מְֽאֹור ־עֵ֭ינַיִם יְשַׂמַּֽח ־לֵ֑ב
שְׁמוּעָ֥ה טֹ֝ובָ֗ה...
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CHAPTER 16
A PASSIONATE DISPOSITION
"A soft answer turneth away wrath: but a grievous word stirreth up
anger." In the LXX there is another clause inserted at the beginning.-
Proverbs 15:1
"A meek t...
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WORDS IN SEASON
Proverbs 15:18-33
Learn to be slow to anger. This paragraph describes the even temper
which is blessed to live with and blessed to die with. Temper is said
to be nine-tenths of Christ...
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Verse Proverbs 15:11. This is a simple method of drawing attention to
God's perfect knowledge of all the deepest and hidden things. If that
which is most full of mystery to us is perfectly known to Hi...
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_Fat. And contributes to health. By less noble motives, the mind is
gradually raised to the more excellent._...
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A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger
appeaseth strife. The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of
thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain. A wise son maketh
a...
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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 LIGHT OF THE EYES REJOICETH THE HEART,.... Not so much the visive
power, the faculty of seeing, a strong and clear eyesight; though this
is a great mercy, and from the Lord, and to be prized, and...
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_The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: [and] a good report maketh
the bones fat._
Ver. 30. _The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart._] Light and
sight are very comfortable. He was a mad fool t...
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_The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart_, &c. “In the same manner
that the sensible light rejoices a sound eye, and diffuses its
pleasure through the whole soul, so a good reputation gives pleasure...
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THE LIGHT OF THE EYES REJOICETH THE HEART; the light which we see with
our eyes, and by the help of which we see many other pleasant objects,
is a great comfort and refreshment. Compare ECCLESIASTES 1...
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Proverbs 15:30 light H3974 eyes H5869 rejoices H8055 (H8762) heart
H3820 good H2896 report H8052 makes H1878 bo
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CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: The course of the wicked man is an abomination to God,
neither is there any offering he can make to God that can be accepte...
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Proverbs 15:1. _A soft answer turneth away wrath._ It bows to the
tempest, it names a mitigating circumstance, it gives a favourable
turn to misconstruction, it proposes a better way. My father, said...
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 15:25 These proverbs begin and end with a
contrast: THE LORD opposes the PROUD (v....
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_MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 15:30_
CHEERFULNESS AND GOOD TIDINGS
Two views are taken of the meaning of the first clause of this verse.
Some understand it to mean that the objective light that plays...
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 15:1
A SOFT ANSWER TURNETH AWAY WRATH. Two things are here to be observed:
an answer should be given—the injured person should not wrap himself
in sullen silence; and that answer...
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Fifteen. I love this first one here.
A soft answer turns away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger
(Proverbs 15:1).
How oftentimes a person comes just raging and a soft answer turns away
wrath. If...
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Ecclesiastes 11:7; Ezra 9:8; Isaiah 58:11; Luke 2:10; Proverbs 13:9;...
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A good report — A good name. Fat — Not only chears a man for the
present, but gives him such stable comfort as revives his soul, and
gives vigour to his body....