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CHAPTER 24 INSTRUCTIONS CONTINUED
In the final instructions of this chapter we find first a description
of the evil men. Their heart studieth destruction; their lips talk
mischief. This theme is repea...
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PROVERBS 24:7 A. Lit. Wisdom is corals to the fool. RV involves a
change m the text, which gives perhaps the best sense that can be made
of an obviously corrupt stanza.
Proverbs 24:9. thought: the wor...
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FRET NOT. Chafe not thyself. Compare Psalms 37:1; Psalms 37:7; Psalms
37:8.
EVIL MEN. evil-doers. Compare Psalms 37:1;...
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Comp. Psalms 37:1; Psalms 37:7....
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TEXT Proverbs 24:13-22
13.
My son, eat thou honey, for it is good;
And the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to thy taste:
14.
So shalt thou know wisdom to be unto thy soul;
If thou ha...
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Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the
wicked;
FRET NOT THYSELF ... NEITHER BE THOU ENVIOUS AT THE WICKED - (; ; ;
.)...
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5. Read, 'A wise man is better than a warrior, and a man of knowledge
than a man of strength.'...
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 24
V1 Do not be jealous of evil men.
Do not try to meet them.
V2
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Perhaps you are afraid of evil people. Or perhaps you are jealous of
their money or importance. Then, remember what will happen to them. In
the end they will die. God is a fair judge. And he will puni...
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FRET NOT THYSELF BECAUSE OF EVIL MEN — _i.e.,_ at the sight of their
prosperity, the same difficulty which occurred to the Psalmist (Psalms
37:1). (Comp. also Psalms 73:3 and Jeremiah 12:1.)...
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אַל ־תִּתְחַ֥ר בַּ † מְּרֵעִ֑ים אַל
־תְּ֝קַנֵּ֗א...
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CHAPTER 25
FORGIVING
"Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause, and deceive not
with thy lips. Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me; I
will render to the man according to hi...
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Warnings are uttered against envy, against the formation of evil
companionships, against excess in passion, against all false
exhilaration; and perperpetual attention to wisdom and earnest
endeavor to...
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_Contend. Or Hebrew, "associate." --- Like. Ver. 1., and Psalm xxxvi.
1._...
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Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the
wicked; For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of
the wicked shall be put out. My son, fear thou the LORD and the...
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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...
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FRET NOT THYSELF BECAUSE OF EVIL [MEN],.... Because of their outward
prosperity and worldly happiness, any more than rejoice at their
adversity; neither do the one nor the other; where the one prevail...
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_Fret not thyself because of evil men_ For their present impunity, or
good success. _For there shall be no reward to the evil man_ All his
hopes and happiness shall quickly and eternally perish, and h...
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V. 19. FRET NOT THYSELF BECAUSE OF EVIL MEN, becoming enraged with
envy on account of their apparent good fortune, NEITHER BE THOU
ENVIOUS AT THE WICKED, whose prosperity often seems so great;...
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FRET NOT THYSELF BECAUSE OF EVIL MEN:
Or, keep not company with the wicked...
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FRET NOT THYSELF; which translation of the word is confirmed by the
parallel word in the following clause. BECAUSE OF EVIL MEN; for their
present impunity and good success....
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Proverbs 24:19 fret H2734 (H8691) evildoers H7489 (H8688) envious
H7065 (H8762) wicked H7563
Fret - or, Keep not company with the wic
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CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son.
CONCLUSION: If wicked people prosper, we should not be inclined to do
as they do, nor complain of what God does in His provide...
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Proverbs 24:1. _Be not envious against evil men._ Similar thoughts
occur in Psalms 37:1; Psalms 73; Proverbs 17:1. Why should we envy the
wicked? We are all g
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 24:19 See Psalms 37:1.
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 24:20. REWARD. The same word used in Proverbs 24:14, and in
chap. Proverbs 23:18. Its literal meaning is “a hereafter.”
Zöckler translates it end in the first two instances,...
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 24:1
We return here to the more usual form, the tetrastich. BE NOT THOU
ENVIOUS AGAINST EVIL MEN (see on Proverbs 23:17, where a similar
warning is given, and comp....
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Again, he continues in twenty-four in putting them together in
couplets or in phrases.
Be not envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. For
their heart studies destruction, and their...
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2 Corinthians 6:17; 2 Timothy 3:2; Ephesians 5:11; Numbers 16:26;...