Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Proverbs 14:24
Riches — They are a singular advantage and ornament to them. But — As for rich fools, their folly is not cured, but made worse and more manifest by their riches.
Riches — They are a singular advantage and ornament to them. But — As for rich fools, their folly is not cured, but made worse and more manifest by their riches.
Verse Proverbs 14:24. BUT _THE FOOLISHNESS OF FOOLS_ IS _FOLLY._] The _Targum_ reads, _The honour of fools is folly_. The fool, from his foolishness, produces acts of folly. This appears to be the mea...
“The crown,” i. e., the glory of the wise man constitutes his wealth. He alone is truly rich even as he alone (compare Proverbs 14:18 note) is truly king. The seeming tautology of the second clause i...
CHAPTER 14 THE WISE AND THE FOOLISH: THE RICH AND THE POOR The contrast now concerns the wise and the foolish, the rich and the poor. Let us see some of these contrasts. “In the mouth of the foolish i...
PROVERBS 14. In this, as in each of the preceding Chapter s in this section, aphorisms on the moral government of the world come first in number. There are rather more in this chapter of a political a...
_The crown of the wise_ i.e. the wisdom which is their crown (Proverbs 14:18) is (constitutes) their riches. It is at once an ornament and a thing of price; whereas the folly of fools is, and always r...
BUT THE FOOLISHNESS OF FOOLS IS FOLLY— _But their fortunes are a curse to fools._ Houbigant; thus preserving the opposition with the preceding clause....
TEXT Proverbs 14:13-24 13. Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; And the end of mirth is heaviness. 14. The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways; And a good man shall be sati...
The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly. THE CROWN OF THE WISE (IS) THEIR RICHES; (BUT) THE FOOLISHNESS OF FOOLS (IS) FOLLY. Not riches, but "wisdom, gives a cr...
Riches rightly used are a crown: but a rich fool has no crown, has nought but folly....
1. The prosperity of the family depends on the wife (Proverbs 31:10)....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 14 V1 The wise woman builds her house. The foolish woman pulls down her own house with her own hands....
A wise person deserves wealth and honour. However, many wise people are not wealthy. This may be because, for a wise person, wisdom is more important than money. A wise person works hard, but he does...
THE CROWN OF THE WISE IS THEIR RICHES. — They adorn and set off the wisdom of the wise, and bring it more prominently into notice; but the “foolishness of fools” remains folly. The rich fool only disp...
עֲטֶ֣רֶת חֲכָמִ֣ים עָשְׁרָ֑ם אִוֶּ֖לֶת כְּסִילִ֣ים אִוֶּֽלֶת׃...
CHAPTER 15 THE INWARD UNAPPROACHABLE LIFE "The heart knoweth its own bitterness and a stranger doth not intermeddle with its joy."- Proverbs 14:10 "Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful, and the...
Verse Proverbs 14:7. The sense of this proverb is entirely altered in the Revision. The Authorized reading would make it mean that if a man is perceived to be devoid of knowledge he should be abandone...
CHAPTER XIV. _ Imprudence. This they always betray, while the wise use their riches to assist their fellow-creatures, and receive a crown of glory. (Haydock)_...
He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he. Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good. In all labour there i...
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...
THE CROWN OF THE WISE [IS] THEIR RICHES,.... Riches being used by them to increase and improve their knowledge and wisdom, and for the good of men, are an honour to them, and give them credit and repu...
The crown of the wise [is] their riches: [but] the foolishness of fools [is] folly. Ver. 24. _The crown of the wise is their riches._] An ornament, an encouragement in well doing, and an instrument o...
_The crown of the wise is their riches_ They are a singular advantage and ornament to them, partly as they make their wisdom more regarded, while the poor man's wisdom is despised, Ecclesiastes 9:16;...
V. 24. THE CROWN OF THE WISE IS THEIR RICHES, their possessions, gained by dint of hard work, serve to honor them; BUT THE FOOLISHNESS OF FOOLS IS FOLLY, no matter how much show and pomp he makes, how...
THE CROWN OF THE WISE IS THEIR RICHES; they are a singular advantage and ornament to them, partly as they make their wisdom more regarded, when the poor man's wisdom is despised, ECCLESIASTES 9:16; an...
Proverbs 14:24 crown H5850 wise H2450 riches H6239 foolishness H200 fools H3684 folly H200 crown -...
THE TRIUMPH OF TRUTH OVER FALSEHOOD AND OF RIGHTEOUSNESS OVER UNRIGHTEOUSNESS (PROVERBS 14:17). The thought of truth against falsehood undergirds this subsection. It commences with the fact that fools...
CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The house of the wicked, though built ever so strong and high, shall be brought to disgrace and at length made extinct. The...
Proverbs 14:1. _Every wise woman buildeth her house,_ as Proverbs 9:1, by training up her children to industry, piety and virtue. She is their first governess, and daily instils the elements of knowle...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 14:24 The phrase THE FOLLY OF FOOLS BRINGS FOLLY appropriately captures the continuous nature of the foolish path. See v. Proverbs 14:8;...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 14:24. Or, “It is a crown to the wise when they are rich, but the folly of fools remains folly” (_Delitzsch_). _MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 14:24_ WEALTH WITH AND WITHOUT...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 14:1 EVERY WISE WOMAN BUILDETH HER HOUSE. Wise women order well their household matters and their families; they have an important influence, and exercise it beneficially. Γυναι...
Continuation of the contrasting of goodness and evil. Every wise woman (Proverbs 14:1) And wise and foolish contrasted always, too. Every wise woman builds her house (Proverbs 14:1): She takes care...
Ecclesiastes 7:11; Ecclesiastes 7:12; Isaiah 33:6; Luke 12:19; L