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Proverbs 25:19

Confidence in an unfaithful man, credulous reliance upon a false person, in time of trouble, when one is in need of a trustworthy friend, is like a broken tooth and a foot out of joint, worthless as they are, they provoke all the more by the infliction of pain.

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See also Proverbs 25:19 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Stress is to be laid on the uselessness of the “broken tooth” and the “foot out of joint,” or tottering, rather than on the pain connected with them. The King James Version loses the emphasis and poin...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    IV. THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON COLLECTED BY THE MEN OF HEZEKIAH CHAPTER 25 Here begin the proverbs which the good king Hezekiah, under the guidance of the Spirit of God, added to this book. “This title...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    FIRST DIVISION. In general character this division shows a resemblance to the Sayings of the Wise, containing a number of quatrains and synthetic couplets, and but few antithetic couplets. PROVERBS...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    UNFAITHFUL. treacherous. Hebrew. _bagad._ See note on "transgressors" (Proverbs 11:3). FOOT OUT OF JOINT. a tottering foot. Illustrations: Micah (Judges 18:20); Ben-hadad (2 Kings 8:8;...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    CONFIDENCE IN AN UNFAITHFUL MAN— Houbigant renders this verse, _As a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint, is the protection of a wicked man in calamity; he will even take away the garment in cold we...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    TEXT Proverbs 25:11-19 11. A word fitly spoken Is like applies of gold in network of silver. 12. As an ear-ring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, So is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear....

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint. CONFIDENCE IN AN UNFAITHFUL MAN IN TIME OF TROUBLE (IS LIKE) A BROKEN TOOTH - which has its place a...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    COURTS. QUARRELS 1-7. relate to kings and courts....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    A bad tooth causes pain. And it continues to cause pain. A fool is an evil man who hates wisdom. You cannot trust this evil man. He will not help you when you are in trouble. Instead, he will cause yo...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 25 MORE OF SOLOMON’S PROVERBS (WISE WORDS) (PROVERBS 25:1 TO PROVERBS 29:27)...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    שֵׁ֣ן רֹ֭עָה וְ רֶ֣גֶל מוּעָ֑דֶת מִבְטָ֥ח בּ֝

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 26 THE KING "It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter. The heaven for height and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings is unsearchable...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    SELF-CONTROL AND KINDLINESS Proverbs 25:15-28 In this paragraph we have good advice as to our dealings with the varied characters with whom we are forced into daily contact. Here is a man hard as a b...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    We now come to the second collection of the proverbs of Solomon. These, as the title specifically declares, constitute a posthumous collection gathered in the days of Hezekiah. Speaking generally, the...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee. A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow. Confidence i...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    CONFIDENCE IN AN UNFAITHFUL MAN IN TIME OF TROUBLE,.... It is not good to put confidence in any man, not in princes, nor in the best of men; much less in an unfaithful, prevaricating, and treacherous...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble [is like] a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint. Ver. 19. _Confidence in an unfaithful man, &c._] In a prevaricator, a covenant breaker, a perfidi...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Confidence in an unfaithful man_, &c. “As a broken tooth, or leg out of joint, not only fails a man when he comes to use them, but likewise puts him into pain; so doth a faithless person serve them t...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    In This CHAPTER, forming the first section, necessarily affirms the basic principles of true unity, which is absolutely essential to recovery. For departure is the very breeding-ground of division, -...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    It is not only deceitful, but hurtful, as a broken tooth though it make show of helping, yet is not only unhelpful to a man for chewing his meat, but also troublesome and painful; and as a foot out of...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Proverbs 25:19 Confidence H4009 unfaithful H898 (H8802) time H3117 trouble H6869 bad H7465 tooth H8127 foot H7272

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, Hezekiah. CONCLUSION: (Principal lesson, Proverbs 25:21; Proverbs 25:22.) The way to turn an enemy into a friend is to act friendly towa...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Proverbs 25:1. _These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah copied out._ Solomon wrote three thousand proverbs, and a thousand and five songs. 1 Kings 4:32. The supplement to the boo...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint._ MAN TRUSTING IN MAN This is sometimes a great evil. To trust in man and disregard God, or to rep...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour’s house._ BAD NEIGHBOURS Here are four kinds. I. The intrusive. It is pleasant to be visited by a neighbour whose interest is genuine. Two evils accrue to thos...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 25:1 Hezekiah’s Collection of Solomonic Proverbs 1:1. The present form of the book of...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 25:19. FOOT OUT OF JOINT. Rather “_An unsteady foot_.” PROVERBS 25:20. NITRE. “_Not the substance we now understand by nitre—i.e., nitrate of potassa (saltpetre), but the na...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION VERSE 1-29:27 PART VI. SECOND GREAT COLLECTION OF SOLOMONIC PROVERBS, gathered by "the men of Hezekiah," in which wisdom is set forth as the greatest blessing to the king and his subjects...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now in chapter 25. These proverbs were gathered by Hezekiah when he became king, and they were added to the books of proverbs by Hezekiah's scribes. During the period of Hezekiah's reign, it was a per...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Chronicles 28:20; 2 Chronicles 28:21; 2 Timothy 4:16; Ezekiel 29:6;...

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