Walk not thou in the way with them; avoid their courses and their conversation, and company. Refrain thy foot from their path; when thou hast any thought, or inclination, or temptation to follow their counsels or examples, suppress it, and restrain thyself as it were by force and violence, as the word implies.
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS A detailed analysis, as we have made it in other books, cannot be fully made in this collection of proverbs. Most of them are detached and each has a message by itself. To int...
PROVERBS 1-9. FIRST SECTION. THE PRAISE OF WISDOM. Proverbs 1:1. Title, either of the whole book, or of this particular collection. The word for PROVERB, _mâ shâ l,_ has a wide significance _in Heb....
PATH. Some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, Syr, and Vulgate, read "paths" (plural)...
TEXT - Proverbs 1:10-19 10. My son, if sinners entice thee, Consent thou not. 11. If they say, Come with us, Let us lay in wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause; 12...
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: MY SON, WALK NOT THOU IN THE WAY WITH THEM; REFRAIN THY FOOT FROM THEIR PATH. "Refrain thy foot" expresses the natural...
The chapter falls into three principal divisions. 1-6. Title and Introduction explaining the object of the whole book, which is to instruct the inexperienced and add to the educated man's knowledge. I...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ ABOUT THE BOOK OF PROVERBS King Solomon ruled the nation of Israel for 40 years. He brought peace and wealth to the nation. Solomon’s workmen built pa...
THE THIEVES’ PLAN In Solomon’s story, a band of thieves have a cruel plan. The thieves ask a young man to join them. Together, they will attack someone else. They will steal from him, and murder him...
בְּנִ֗י אַל ־תֵּלֵ֣ךְ בְּ דֶ֣רֶךְ אִתָּ֑ם מְנ
CHAPTER 2 THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge."- Proverbs 1:7 "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: And the knowledge of the Holy One is understa...
“THE BEGINNING OF KNOWLEDGE” Proverbs 1:1-19 Notice the perfect balance of each clause, and the duplication of the one thought in the two clauses of each verse. _Wisdom_ as used in this book is more...
The Book of Proverbs is one of the wisdom books of the Hebrew people. Emotionally and fundamentally, wisdom is the fear of God; intellectually, a knowledge of the manifestations of the divine wisdom;...
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their (n) path: (n) That is, have nothing at all to do with them....
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck. My son, if sinners entice thee, cons...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 9. There are two very distinct parts in this book. The first nine Chapter s, which give the great general principles; and the proverbs, properly so...
MY SON, WALK NOT THOU IN THE WAY WITH THEM,.... In the same way as they do, which is the broad way that leads unto destruction; set not one foot in it; make no trial of it, whether it will be pleasant...
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: Ver. 15. _Walk not thou in the way with them._] "God will not take the wicked by the hand." Job 8:20 Why then should we?...
_Walk not thou in the way with them_ Avoid their courses, their conversation, and company. _Refrain thy foot from their path_ If thou shouldst have any thought, inclination, or temptation to hearken t...
A FUNDAMENTAL TRAIT OF WISDOM IS THE AVOIDANCE OF WICKEDNESS...
My son, the tender form of address being very effective in influencing a young person for good, WALK NOT THOU IN THE WAY WITH THEM, every form of association with the wicked being dangerous; REFRAIN T...
10-19 Wicked people are zealous in seducing others into the paths of the destroyer: sinners love company in sin. But they have so much the more to answer for. How cautious young people should be! "Co...
Proverbs 1:15 son H1121 walk H3212 (H8799) way H1870 Keep H4513 (H8798) foot H7272 path H5410 walk
PROLOGUE TO THE BOOK (PROVERBS 1:8 TO PROVERBS 9:18). It was common throughout the 3rd to the 1st millenniums BC for collections of wisdom saying to have a prologue preparing for the ‘sayings' that wo...
THE COMPELLING NEED TO AVOID THE ENTICEMENTS OF SINNERS MOTIVATED BY GREED (PROVERBS 1:10). Solomon now vividly portrays the dangers of greed and violence, two things which often go together. The one...
DISCOURSE 1. ADDRESSED TO ‘MY SON'. THOSE WHO SEEK TO WALK IN THE FEAR OF YHWH WILL LISTEN TO THE INSTRUCTION OF GODLY AUTHORITY, AND WILL AVOID THE ENTICEMENTS OF SINNERS MOTIVATED BY GREED. WISDOM I...
PROLOGUE TO THE BOOK (PROVERBS 1:8 TO PROVERBS 9:18). It was common throughout the 3rd to the 1st millenniums BC for collections of wisdom saying to have a prologue preparing for the ‘sayings' that wo...
CONTENTS: Wisdom's reasoning with the children of men and the certain ruin of those who turn a deaf ear to Wisdom's call. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son, Wisdom, (Christ). CONCLUSION: Of all thin...
Proverbs 1:1. _Proverbs,_ apothegms, parables, sentences, similitudes. The proverbs of a nation are the compressions of wisdom into short maxims, which like the coins of a country worn bare by use, pa...
_My son, if sinners entice thee._ REASONS FOR RESISTING THE ENTICEMENTS OF SINNERS By sinners is meant all persons who are not true Christians. Three reasons why we should not consent when sinners e...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 1:8 A Father’s Invitation to Wisdom. This section describes the two paths implied in Proverbs 1:7: the wise (grounded in the fear of the Lord) an
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 1:10. ENTICE THEE, “lay thee open.” Miller here reads “if sinners would make a door of thy simplicity, afford thou no entrance.” PROVERBS 1:17. Some interpret this verse as...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 1:1 PART I. THE TITLE AND SUPERSCRIPTION. The superscription of the Proverbs, which extends from verse 1 to verse 6, furnishes us with an epitome in short and concise language of...
Shall we turn in our Bibles tonight to Proverbs, chapter 1. The first six verses are sort of a preface to the book, as authors many times write a preface to their work. The Proverbs of Solomon the so...
2 Corinthians 6:17; Jeremiah 14:10; Proverbs 13:20; Proverbs 4:14;...
THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON Proverbs 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Solomon's great choice. It was in Gibeon that the Lord appeared unto Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, "Ask what I shall give thee...