Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Proverbs 27:22
Not a natural, but a moral and wilful fool, who by long continuance in sin is hardened and stupefied, and so incorrigible under all the means of amendment.
Not a natural, but a moral and wilful fool, who by long continuance in sin is hardened and stupefied, and so incorrigible under all the means of amendment.
Verse Proverbs 27:22. _THOUGH THOU SHOULDEST BRAY A FOOL_] Leaving all other conjectures, of which commentators are full, I would propose, that this is a metaphor taken from _pounding metallic ores_...
BRAY - To pound wheat in a mortar with a pestle, in order to free the wheat from its husks and impurities, is to go through a far more elaborate process than threshing. But the folly of the fool is no...
V. INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN TO SOLOMON In the three Chapter s which follow 27-29 we find the change we have noticed before. These proverbs are addressed to a person and the phrases “My son” and the persona...
A collection of aphorisms on various subjects. PROVERBS 27:3. _cf._ Sir_22:14 f. The comparison suggests that vexation is out of place. It is the fool that is a bore, not his anger. Proverbs 27:4 a...
BRAY. pound, pulverize....
_wheat_ Rather, BRUISED CORN. In the only other place in which it occurs (2 Samuel 17:19) the word is rendered _ground corn_, A.V., and _bruised corn_, R.V. See note there in this Series. Proverbs 27...
TEXT Proverbs 27:19-27 19. As in water face answereth face, So the heart of man to man. 20. Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; And the eyes of man are never satisfied. 21. The refining pot...
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him. THOUGH THOU SHOULDEST BRAY A FOOL IN A MORTAR AMONG WHEAT WITH A PESTLE, (YET)...
SUNDRY OBSERVATIONS. AGRICULTURE 4. Envy] a husband's jealousy is meant (Song of Solomon 8:6). 5, 6. Men 'hide' (RV) love when they refrain from telling a friend his faults. An enemy will be 'profus...
'Heaven and earth fight in vain against a dunce.' 'Fools grow without watering.' 23-27. A homily in praise of careful attention to the flocks and herds. The writer is not disposed to depreciate agric...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 27 V1 Do not become proud about your plans for tomorrow. You do not know what will happen tomorrow....
You strike grain to make flour. A fool is an evil person who hates wisdom. A judge might order a cruel punishment for an evil person. But an evil person will learn nothing, even if you strike him many...
THOUGH THOU SHOULDEST BRAY (_i.e.,_ pound) a fool (a self-willed, headstrong person) in a mortar among wheat with a pestle. — This would separate completely the husks from the wheat; but obstinacy has...
אִ֥ם תִּכְתֹּֽושׁ ־אֶת ־הָ אֱוִ֨יל ׀ בַּֽ †...
CHAPTER 28 LIVING DAY BY DAY "Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day will bring forth."- Proverbs 27:1 "The grave and destruction are never satisfied; and the eyes of men ar...
“HEARTY COUNSEL” Proverbs 27:1-22 The keyword in this paragraph is _friends_, Proverbs 27:6; Proverbs 27:9-10; Proverbs 27:14; Proverbs 27:17; Proverbs 19:1-29. Friends, according to the original se...
Verse Proverbs 27:5. This proverb takes for granted the need for rebuke, and by 'love that is hidden" is meant a love which fails to rebuke. Verse Proverbs 27:14. There is nothing more calculated to...
_Mortar. Such were used by those who could not afford handmills. (Calmet)_...
My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me. A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished. Take his garment tha...
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...
THOUGH THOU SHOULDEST BRAY A FOOL IN A MORTAR AMONG WHEAT WITH A PESTLE,.... As the manna was, Numbers 11:8; and as wheat beat and bruised in a mortar, or ground in a mill, retains its own nature; so,...
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, [yet] will not his foolishness depart from him. Ver. 22. _Though thou shouldst bray a fool, &c._] The cypress tree, the more i...
_Though thou shouldest bray_, &c. “The folly and wickedness of some men are so incurable, that though unto reproofs, and chidings, and threatenings, you should add stripes and blows, they would not gr...
WISDOM AND HUMILITY GO HAND IN HAND...
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, stamping him into little bits in a crucible in an effort to find at least a grain of sense, YET WILL NOT HIS FOOLISHNESS DEPART...
HERE THE SUBJECT matter is completely changed. No longer is the outside opposition of the enemy found, but any dangers now considered are those arising from the state of our own hearts. This third sec...
Proverbs 27:22 grind H3806 (H8799) fool H191 mortar H4388 pestle H5940 along H8432 grain H7383 foolishness H200 d
Proverbs 27:1. _Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth._ Let us never boast of future days and years, or what we mean to do when we come to any age, or what sh...
CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions. CHARACTERS: Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: (Principal lesson.) Use the present time with diligence and wisdom and presume not upon tomorrow. We should speak of th...
Proverbs 27:2. _Let another man praise thee._ A man is sometimes compelled to speak of himself. But modesty often prefers speaking in the third person; as St. John, who says, “that disciple whom Jesus...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 27:19 Just as WATER reflects a person’s actual appearance, so the HEART reflects a person’s true nature (v....
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 27:21. A MAN TO HIS PRAISE. Delitzsch understands the meaning to be that a man is valued according to the measure of public opinion. Ewald, Hitzig, and others, coincide with...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 27:1 These verses are grouped in pairs, each two being connected in subject. PROVERBS 27:1 BOAST NOT THYSELF OF TOMORROW. He boasts himself ...
Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring foRuth (Proverbs 27:1). Very good. This is, of course, the idea is taken up in the New Testament book of James. He said, "Go t...
2 Chronicles 28:22; 2 Chronicles 28:23; Exodus 12:30; Exodus 14:5;...
MAKING THE MOST OF LIFE Proverbs 27:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS God has given to each of us a life freighted with many privileges and with many opportunities. There is a little verse in the New Testament w...
Is foolishness correctable? PROBLEM: Proverbs 22:15 teaches that “Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, But the rod of correction will drive it far from him.” But, according to this verse,...