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Proverbs 18:6
v. 6. A fool's lips enter into contention, bring on a quarrel, and his mouth calleth for strokes, he challenges and provokes the punishment which strikes him.
v. 6. A fool's lips enter into contention, bring on a quarrel, and his mouth calleth for strokes, he challenges and provokes the punishment which strikes him.
The first verse speaks of the immediate, the others of the remote, results of the “fool’s” temper. First, “contention,” then “strokes” or blows, then “destruction,” and last, “wounds.” Proverbs 18:8...
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...
LIPS. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), for what is spoken by them. MOUTH. See above note. Illustrations: Judges 8:4. 2Ki 2:23, 2 Kings 2:24; Luke 19:22....
_enter into_ The Heb. may mean either "come into," or "come with," "bring" (R.V. marg.). _strokes_ Or, STRIPES, R.V., as the same Heb. word is rendered in Proverbs 19:29, the only other place in which...
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...
A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes. A FOOL'S LIPS ENTER INTO CONTENTION, AND HIS MOUTH CALLETH FOR STROKES - by his contentiousness of mouth he brings "strokes...
18:6 into (l-5) Or 'bring.'...
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...
A fool hates wisdom. A wise man thinks carefully about his words. But a fool does not think before he speaks. So the fool’s words cause arguments. His words cause trouble. And the fool deserves punish...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 18 V1 An unfriendly man is selfish. He is not sensible. V2 A foo
HIS MOUTH CALLETH FOR STROKES, which he provokes by his insolence and quarrelsomeness....
שִׂפְתֵ֣י כְ֭סִיל יָבֹ֣אֽוּ בְ רִ֑יב וּ֝ פִ֗י
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...
_Quarrels. Hebrew, "blows." Septuagint, "death;" (ver. 7.) which are the usual consequences of quarrels._...
A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself. When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach. The words of a man's mouth are as deep w...
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...
A FOOL'S LIPS ENTER INTO CONTENTION,.... That is, between others, when he has nothing to do with it; but he must be meddling, and make himself a party in the contention, which is an argument of his fo...
A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes. Ver. 6. A fool's lips enter into contention.] _See Trapp on "_ Pro 18:5 _"_ And his mouth calleth for strokes] _a_ By his desi...
A FOOL'S LIPS ENTER INTO CONTENTION; a fool by his rash and wicked speeches provoketh others to quarrel with him, and, as it follows, to strike him. HIS MOUTH CALLETH FOR STROKES; procureth strokes to...
Proverbs 18:6 fools H3684 lips H8193 enter H935 (H8799) contention H7379 mouth H6310 calls H7121 (H8799) blows...
THE WORDS OF THE WISE ARE A WELLSPRING OF WISDOM, BUT A FOOL'S WORDS RESULT IN MISERY FOR HIM, AND FINALLY BRING ABOUT HIS RUIN (PROVERBS 18:3). As with the previous subsection, this subsection majors...
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...
_A fool’s lips enter into contention._ THE SPEECH OF A SPLENETIC FOOL How frequently Solomon speaks of the fool! and the fool in his idea was not an intellectually demented man, but a morally bad ma...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 18:5 These verses concern the consequences of misusing words. Verses Proverbs 18:6 and...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 18:6. CALLETH FOR. Stuart understands this in the sense of “_to deserve_.” PROVERBS 18:8. WOUNDS. The word so translated occurs only here and in chap. Proverbs 26:22, and wi...
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...
Proverbs 12:16; Proverbs 13:10; Proverbs 14:16; Proverbs 14:3;...