Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Proverbs 10:18
Lying lips — With flattering words. He here condemns two opposite vices, secret hatred, and manifest slander.
Lying lips — With flattering words. He here condemns two opposite vices, secret hatred, and manifest slander.
Verse Proverbs 10:18. _HE THAT HIDETH_] This is a common case. How many, when full of resentment, and deadly hatred, meditating revenge and cruelty, and sometimes even murder, have pretended that they...
Better, He who hideth hatred is of lying lips. He who cherishes hatred, is either a knave, or a fool - a knave if he hides, a fool if he utters it....
II. THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON: CHAPTER S 10--19:19 Beginning with the tenth chapter we have the collection of proverbs given by inspiration through Solomon. In this section the personal address, “My son...
PROVERBS 10:2 (_cf._ Psalms 3:7). RIGHTEOUSNESS: the growth of the conception of righteousness is an important subject. As in the Pss., there is a specific class the righteous opposed to the wicked. T...
with _lying lips_ Rather, IS OF LYING LIPS, R.V....
HE THAT HIDETH HATRED, &C.— The LXX read, _Honest lips hide hatred; but they who utter reproaches, are the greatest fools;_ and the Syriac, _The lips of the wicked hide hatred; and he that uttereth a...
TEXT Proverbs 10:12-22 12. Hatred stirreth up strifes; But love covereth all transgressions. 13. In the lips of him that hath discernment wisdom is found; But a rod is for the back of him that i...
He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool. HE THAT HIDETH HATRED (WITH) LYING LIPS, AND HE THAT UTTERETH A SLANDER, IS A FOOL - rather, as the verses generall...
10:18 fool. (i-17) _ Kesil_ . see Note o, ch. 1.7....
Here we reach the first collection of what were supposed to be Solomon's proverbs. Most of them consist of two lines parallel to each other. The parallelism is one of contrast, or agreement, or explan...
Other people can benefit from our wisdom. Other people will suffer if we refuse God’s wisdom. These verses explain this....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 10 THE PROVERBS (WISE WORDS) OF SOLOMON (PROVERBS 10:1 TO PROVERBS 22:16) The second major section in the Book of Proverbs is...
We should forgive other people. Even when someone hurts us, we should not hate that person. Instead we should pray for them. Many people secretly hate someone else. The first line says that this is l...
HE THAT HIDETH HATRED... — This would be more correctly translated, “He that hideth hatred is a mouth of falsehood: he that spreadeth slander is a fool” (_khesîl:_ Proverbs 1:22). (For the constructio...
מְכַסֶּ֣ה שִׂ֭נְאָה שִׂפְתֵי ־שָׁ֑קֶר וּ מֹוצִ֥א...
CHAPTER 11 WEALTH "Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death." Proverbs 10:2 "O'er weening statesmen have full long relied On fleets and armies and external w...
THE BLESSING OF THE LORD MAKETH RICH Proverbs 10:17-32 Let us specially avoid talking too much. Silence is golden. See Proverbs 10:19. Yet _the tongue of the just is as choice silver and the lips of...
Here begin the proverbs proper. In this collection they are antithetical, They present a sharp contrast between wisdom and folly in the outworking of such in practical life. Seeing that this is indeed...
CHAPTER X. Title. _Solomon. This title is not found in Sixtus V or Septuagint. Hitherto the preface extends, shewing the advantages of wisdom. (Calmet) --- The subsequent Chapter s more properly cont...
The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin. He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth. He that hideth hatred with lying li...
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...
HE THAT HIDETH HATRED [WITH] LYING LIPS,.... Or he whose "lying lips hide hatred", which is much the same; who pretends to be a friend, and outwardly behaves as one, but inwardly nourishes and cherish...
He that hideth hatred [with] lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, [is] a fool. Ver. 18. _He that hideth hatred, &c._] These are dangerous creatures that thus lie at the catch, and wait advanta...
_He that hideth hatred with lying lips_ With flattering words, and false pretences of friendship; _and he that uttereth slander_ That is, both of them, one no less than the other; _is a fool_ Because...
V. 18. HE THAT HIDETH HATRED WITH LYING LIPS, deliberately deceiving others as to the real condition of his heart, being hypocritical falsehood personified, AND HE THAT UTTERETH A SLANDER, spreading a...
1 The comfort of parents much depends on their children; and this suggests to both, motives to their duties. Proverbs 10:2; Proverbs 10:3. Though the righteous may be poor, the Lord will not suffer h...
WITH LYING LIPS; with flattering words and false pretences of friendship. AND HE, Heb. _he_, i. e both of them, one no less than the other. So he condemneth two opposite vices, secret hatred and manif...
Proverbs 10:18 hides H3680 (H8764) hatred H8135 lying H8267 lips H8193 spreads H3318 (H8688) slander H1681 fool
THE RIGHTEOUS (THE WISE) WALK UPRIGHTLY, ARE A WELLSPRING OF LIFE TO OTHERS, STORE UP KNOWLEDGE, ACCEPT CORRECTION, THINK BEFORE THEY SPEAK AND ACT AS SHEPHERD TO MANY. THE UNRIGHTEOUS PERVERT THEIR W...
A COLLECTION OF SOLOMON'S PROVERBS (PROVERBS 10:1 TO PROVERBS 29:27). Solomon's presentation of The Book of Proverbs has followed the pattern of much Wisdom literature. This commenced with the initial...
A COLLECTION OF SOLOMON'S PROVERBS (PROVERBS 10:1 TO PROVERBS 29:27). Solomon's presentation of The Book of Proverbs has followed the pattern of much Wisdom literature. This commenced with the initial...
CONTENTS: The blessedness of the ways of righteousness and the folly of the ways of wickedness. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: The head of the just man will be crowned with the blessings both...
Proverbs 10:1. _The Proverbs of Solomon._ The nine preseding Chapter s may be regarded as a vestibule to the temple. Wisdom has been personified, and folly thrown into the darker shades. We have had a...
_He that uttereth a slander is a fool._ THE FOLLY OF SLANDER I. Slandering is foolish, as sinful and wicked. All sin is foolish upon many accounts. To lie simply is a great fault, being a deviation f...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 10:18. Not WITH LYING LIPS, but “is of lying lips.” “The meaning of this second clause does not stand in the relation of an antithesis to the preceding, but in that of a clim...
EXPOSITION VERSE 1-22:16 PART III. FIRST GREAT COLLECTION (375) OF SOLOMONIC PROVERBS. VERSE 1-12:28 First section. The sections are noted by their commencing usually with the words, "a wise son....
Now in chapter 10 we have individual proverbs. Most of these individual proverbs are in contrast, where they are contrasting the wise with the foolish, or the wicked with the righteous. Or the diligen...
1 Samuel 18:21; 1 Samuel 18:22; 1 Samuel 18:29; 2 Samuel 11:8;...