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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Proverbs 12:24

Shall bear rule; shall procure wealth and power. The slothful, Heb. the deceitful. So he calls the slothful, because deceit and idleness are commonly companions, and such men seek to gain by fraud what they either cannot or will not get by honest labour. Compare Proverbs 10:4.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _the slothful_ Lit. _sloth_. See Proverbs 10:4. Comp. Proverbs 13:1-2. _shall be under tribute_ Rather, SHALL COME, or BE PUT, UNDER TASK-WORK, i.e. servile or enforced labour. The phrase occurs frequ...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    TEXT Proverbs 12:20-28 20. Deceit is in the heart of them that devise evil; But to the counsellors of peace is joy. 21. There shall be no mischief happen to the righteous; But the wicked shall b...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute. THE HAND OF THE DILIGENT SHALL BEAR RULE: BUT THE SLOTHFUL SHALL BE UNDER TRIBUTE. Diligence shall secure the rule...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    4. A CROWN, etc.] Possibly there may be a reference to the crown worn on their wedding-day by bride and bridegroom (Song of Solomon 3:11; Song of Solomon 8:9). In Damascus the bridal crown consists of...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    UNDER TRIBUTE] forced to do taskwork (1 Kings 9:21)....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 12 V1 A person who loves knowledge will accept correction. Only a stupid person hates correction....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Employers watch their workers. The employer wants to know which workers are working hard. He also wants to know who is lazy. A good worker will receive more responsibility. A lazy worker might lose hi...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    UNDER TRIBUTE. — Like the descendants of the Amorites and other former inhabitants of Canaan, by whose forced labour Solomon executed his great works (1 Kings 9:20). A Hebrew from poverty might be red...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    יַד ־חָרוּצִ֥ים תִּמְשֹׁ֑ול וּ֝ רְמִיָּ֗ה תִּהְיֶ֥ה...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 13 THE TONGUE "A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his MOUTH: and the doings of a man's hands shall be rendered unto him."- Proverbs 12:14 "In the transgression of the LIPS i...

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

    Verse Proverbs 12:9. That is to say, it matters little that one is not counted as of any importance by his neighbors if, nevertheless, he is able to keep a servant, that is, to employ someone to minis...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The lip of truth shall be established forever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment. Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy. There shall no evil hap...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THE HAND OF THE DILIGENT SHALL BEAR RULE,.... "Shall become rich", so Jarchi interprets it, according to Proverbs 10:4; Through diligence men get riches, and through riches they arrive to power and au...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute. Ver. 24. _The hand of the diligent shall bear rule,_] _i.e., _ It shall make rich, and so get preferment; for, _regi...

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

    _The hand of the diligent shall bear rule_ Industry is the way to preferment. An instance of which we have 1 Kings 11:28, where we learn that Solomon advanced Jeroboam because he saw he was _an indust...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    V. 24. THE HAND OF THE DILIGENT SHALL BEAR RULE, he will reach a position of power and influence; BUT THE SLOTHFUL SHALL BE UNDER TRIBUTE, being obliged to serve, to hold a subordinate position, all h...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    SLOTHFUL: Or, deceitful...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Proverbs 12:24 hand H3027 diligent H2742 rule H4910 (H8799) lazy H7423 labor H4522 hand -...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: In the life of the righteous, there is all true comfort and satisfaction and at the end of life there is eternal joy. The m...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Proverbs 12:4. _A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband,_ as illustrated at large in chap. 31. Proverbs 12:9. _He that is despised, and hath a servant._ There are various comments here. He that is...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The hand of the diligent shall bear rule._ THE REWARD OF THE DILIGENT The natural estate of man is labour. Toil was the requirement of paradise. God’s Word recognises the universal law of work. “Toi...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 12:24_ THE REWARD OF DILIGENCE I. WHAT IS HERE MEANT BY DILIGENCE? _It is not being always active, but active in the right direction_—active in the right use of talents a...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION PROVERBS 12:1 INSTRUCTION; correction, discipline, which shows a man his faults, gives him a lowly opinion of himself, and opens his mind to receive _knowledge, _especially the knowledge o...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Whoso loves instruction loves knowledge: but he who hates reproof is brutish (Proverbs 12:1). And there's a lot in the Proverbs about instructing a wise man and he will love you. Instruct a fool and...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 11:28; 1 Kings 12:20; Proverbs 10:4; Proverbs 13:4; Prov

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