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Proverbs 18:11
v. 11. The rich man's wealth is his strong city and as an high wall in his own conceit, his own foolish imagination; for it is not a tower like the name of the Lord.
v. 11. The rich man's wealth is his strong city and as an high wall in his own conceit, his own foolish imagination; for it is not a tower like the name of the Lord.
Verse Proverbs 18:11. _THE RICH MAN'S WEALTH_] See Proverbs 10:15....
What the name of the Lord is to the righteous Proverbs 18:10, that wealth is to the rich. He flees to it for refuge as to a strong city; but it is so only “in his own conceit” or imagination. HIGH - I...
CHAPTER 18 PROVERBS OF PERSONAL INSTRUCTION There is first a warning against separation produced by desire, that is for gratification and pleasure, and not for a righteous purpose. Such a one becomes...
PROVERBS 18:1. MT yields no satisfactory sense. The LXX reads The man who wishes to separate from his friends seeks pretexts, but is always liable to reproach. Frankenberg renders the alienated friend...
AS. [it is]as. CONCEIT. imagination. See note on Proverbs 25:11....
_his strong city_ There is a sense in which it is really so (Proverbs 10:15); but a sense also in which, in designed contrast to the "strong tower" of the preceding verse, it is only so in his own opi...
CHAPTER 18 TEXT Proverbs 18:1-12 1. He that separateth himself seeketh his own desire, And rageth against all sound wisdom. 2. A fool hath no delight in understanding, But only that his heart ma...
The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit. THE RICH MAN'S WEALTH (IS) HIS STRONG CITY ( ), AND AS AN HIGH WALL IN HIS OWN CONCEIT - in contrast to the righteo...
1. Lit. 'One who separates himself seeks desire, quarrels with all wisdom.' This would mean that a solitary recluse follows his own wishes and opposes everything reasonable. But LXX suggests, 'The ali...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 18 V1 An unfriendly man is selfish. He is not sensible. V2 A foo
These two verses are about different castles. A castle was a strong building, which would be safe, even during a war. A good man trusts in God. He can relax, because God will keep him safe. A rich m...
הֹ֣ון עָ֭שִׁיר קִרְיַ֣ת עֻזֹּ֑ו וּ כְ חֹומָ֥ה
CHAPTER 19 THE EVIL OF ISOLATION "He that separates himself follows after his own desire, but against all sound wisdom he shows his teeth."- Proverbs 18:1 FROM the value of friendship there is a nat...
Verse Proverbs 18:1. The protest of this proverb is against the self-satisfaction which makes a man separate himself from the thoughts and opinions of others. Such a one finally "rages against," or "q...
The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit. Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility. He that answereth a matter before he he...
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...
THE RICH MAN'S WEALTH [IS] HIS STRONG CITY,.... In which he dwells, over which he presides; in which he places his trust and confidence, and thinks himself safe from every enemy and from all trouble:...
The rich man's wealth [is] his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit. Ver. 11. The rich man's wealth is his strong city.] It is hard to have wealth, and not to trust to it. Matthew 19:2...
_The name of the Lord_ That is, the Lord, as he hath revealed himself in his works, and especially in his word, by his promises, and the declarations of his infinite perfections, and of his good-will...
He trusts to his wealth, as that which will either enable him to resist his enemy, or at least purchase his favour....
Proverbs 18:11 mans H6223 wealth H1952 strong H5797 city H7151 high H7682 (H8737) wall H2346 esteem H4906...
THE FOOL DESTROYS OTHERS AND IS THEREFORE HIMSELF DESTROYED, BUT THE RIGHTEOUS ARE KEPT SAFE (PROVERBS 18:8). In this subsection there is an emphasis on the way in which a fool destroys a community. H...
Proverbs 18:10 We have here the "strong tower" and the "strong city;" the man lifted up above danger on the battlements of the one, and the man fancying himself to be high above it (and only fancying...
CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The only zone of safety is the name of the Lord which is the strong tower in which one may find rest and be fortified again...
Proverbs 18:1. _Through desire a man having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom._ יתגלע _yithgalâ;_ this word occurs but thrice, and only in the book of Proverbs; viz. here, a...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 18:9 Verses Proverbs 18:10 and Proverbs 18:11 describe two types of security:
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 18:10. SAFE, or, _lifted high_. _MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 18:10_ TWO CITADELS I. THE CITADEL OF HIM WHO TRUSTS IN THE LORD. “_The name of the Lord_.” God has revealed H...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 18:1 This is a difficult verse, and has obtained various interpretations. The Authorized Version gives, THROUGH DESIRE A MAN, HAVING SEPARATED HIMSELF, SEEKETH AND INTERMEDDLETH W...
Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeks and intermeddleth with all wisdom. A fool has no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself. When the wicked comes, then com...
Deuteronomy 32:31; Ecclesiastes 7:12; Job 31:24; Job 31:25; Luke 1