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CHAPTER XVII
_Contentment. The wise servant. The Lord tries the heart._
_Children a crown to their parents. We should hide our_
_neighbour's faults. The poor should not be despised._
_Litigations...
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SACRIFICES - The feast accompanied the offerings Proverbs 7:14. Part
of the victims were burned upon the altar, the rest was consumed by
the worshipper and his friends. The “house full of sacrifices”...
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CHAPTER 17 DIVERSE PROVERBS
Of the twenty-eight proverbs found in this chapter we point out but a
few. “The fining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold; but the
LORD trieth the hearts” (Proverbs...
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PROVERBS 17. Fresh points are the rise of the able and clever slave to
a place in the family (Proverbs 17:2), the practice of bribes
(Proverbs 17:8; Proverbs 17:23), the value of adversity as a test o...
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BETTER. See note on Proverbs 8:11.
SACRIFICES. slain beasts. Hebrew. _zebach._ App-43....
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_sacrifices with strife_ Lit. SACRIFICES OF STRIFE, but better
rendered, GOOD CHEER WITH STRIFE, A.V. marg.; or, FEASTING WITH
STRIFE, R.V. text. This rendering, however, may be arrived at in
either o...
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A DRY MORSEL— _Bread with pulse,_ or _husks._ Bochart and Houbigant.
This was the food of meaner persons; whence Horace says, Epist. 1:
lib. 2: line 123.
_Vivit siliquis et pane secundo:_
Lives on c...
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CHAPTER 17
TEXT Proverbs 17:1-10
1.
Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith,
Than a house full of feasting with strife.
2.
A servant that dealeth wisely shall have rule over a son that ca...
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Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full
of sacrifices with strife.
BETTER IS A DRY MORSEL - without butter or oil ().
THAN A HOUSE FULL OF SACRIFICES - victims, part o...
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17:1 feasting (h-14) Lit. 'sacrifices,' _ Zevach_ . see Note,
Deuteronomy 12:21 ....
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1. Lit. 'the sacrifices of strife.' There would be no pleasure in the
festal meal which followed a sacrifice (Proverbs 7:14) if it was
accompanied with a quarrel. 'A little with quiet is the only diet...
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Dry bread is not a good meal. We might prefer the rich food at a
party. But a quiet place is better than a place where people argue.
A party can be noisy and unpleasant. Any arguments will upset peop...
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 17
V1 One man eats dry bread in a calm and quiet place.
But that man’s meal is better than the food at a party where there
are arguments....
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XVII.
(1) A HOUSE FULL OF SACRIFICES. — Possibly the same as the “peace
offerings” of Proverbs 7:14 (where see note). The consumption of
these may have at times degenerated into licence (comp. 1 Samu...
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טֹ֤וב פַּ֣ת חֲ֭רֵבָה וְ שַׁלְוָה
־בָ֑הּ מִ֝
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CHAPTER 18
FRIENDSHIP
"A friend loveth at all times, and as a brother is born for
adversity."- Proverbs 17:17 This rendering, based upon the margin of
the R.V, yields a much better sense than the lo...
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Verse Proverbs 17:3. Two important thoughts are suggested by this
proverb. First, that the heart will yield to no force other than that
of God. Dross in metal may be discovered and expurged by fire, b...
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Better [is] a dry morsel, and quietness with it, than an house full of
(a) sacrifices [with] strife.
(a) For where there were many sacrifices, there were many portions
given to the people, with which...
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_Victims. Of which part was used for a feast, chap. vii. 14. (Calmet)
--- Septuagint add, "of many goods, and unjust victims." (Haydock)_...
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Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of
sacrifices with strife. A wise servant shall have rule over a son that
causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance amon...
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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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BETTER [IS] A DRY MORSEL, AND QUIETNESS THEREWITH,.... A small
quantity of bread; a broken piece of bread, as the word w signifies;
which has been long broken off, and become "dry" x; a dry crust of
b...
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Better [is] a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full
of sacrifices [with] strife.
Ver. 1. _Better is a dry morsel and quietness therewith._] Though
there be not so much as a little v...
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_Better is a dry morsel_ “Bread with pulse, or husks,” as Bochart
and Houbigant interpret it; which was the food of meaner persons; _and
quietness therewith_ Peace, love, and concord among the members...
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SACRIFICES:
Or, good cheer...
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PROVERBS CHAPTER 17 _Of sacrifices_; of the remainders of sacrifices,
of which they used to make feasts; of which SEE POOLE ON "PROVERBS
7:14". Or, _of slain_ beasts, as that word is used, GENESIS 31:...
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Proverbs 17:1 Better H2896 dry H2720 morsel H6595 quietness H7962
house H1004 full H4392 feasting H2077 strife H7379
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CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: About the most satisfactory substitute for wisdom is
silence. Discretion of speech is better than fluency of speech.
KEY W...
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Proverbs 17:1. _Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith._ See
Proverbs 15:17.
Proverbs 17:3. _The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace_ (or
crucible) _for gold._ Silver ores in Mexico are...
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_Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full
of sacrifices with strife._
THE MAKER AND BREAKER OF A FAMILY’S PEACE
Truth sweetens the relations of life; falsehood eats like ru...
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 17:1 A poor but loving home is better than
a home filled with FEASTING and STRIFE (see Proverbs 5:17).
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 17:1. SACRIFICES, literally _killings_, _i.e._, slain beasts,
not necessarily animals killed for sacrifice....
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 17:1
(Comp, Proverbs 15:16, Proverbs 15:17; Proverbs 16:8.) Better
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Better is a dry morsel, with quietness, than a house full of
sacrifices with strife (Proverbs 17:1).
Now the house full of sacrifices refer to the sacrifices. It's, if in
that economy the of the Judai...
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Proverbs 15:17; Proverbs 21:19; Proverbs 21:9; Proverbs 7:14;...