Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Proverbs 14:30
A sound heart — Free from envy and inordinate passions. Is life — Procures and maintains the health and vigour of the body.
A sound heart — Free from envy and inordinate passions. Is life — Procures and maintains the health and vigour of the body.
Verse Proverbs 14:30. _A SOUND HEART_ IS _THE LIFE OF THE FLESH_] A healthy state of the _blood_, and a proper _circulation_ of that stream of life, is the grand cause, in the hand of God, of _health_...
SOUND HEART - literally, “heart of health,” that in which all emotions and appetites are in a healthy equilibrium. The contrast with this is the envy which eats, like a consuming disease, into the ver...
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...
_sound_ Or, _tranquil_, R.V. marg. (deriving the word from another root). See Proverbs 15:4 and comp. Ecclesiastes 10:4, where the same Heb. word is rendered, _yielding_, or _gentleness_, A.V. and R.V...
A SOUND HEART— _A joyful or congratulating heart;_ a heart which is rejoiced at the prosperity of others, and which derives from thence the greatest satisfaction to itself. This is the import of the w...
TEXT Proverbs 14:25-35 25. A true witness delivereth souls; But he that uttereth lies causeth deceit. 26. In the fear of Jehovah is strong confidence; And his children shall have a place of refu...
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones. A SOUND HEART (IS) THE LIFE OF THE FLESH: BUT ENVY THE ROTTENNESS OF THE BONES. A heart free from "envy," anger and eve...
14:30 sound (b-2) Or 'tranquil,' 'placid.'...
1. The prosperity of the family depends on the wife (Proverbs 31:10)....
A 'tranquil' heart (RM) is contrasted with a jealous one....
Our emotions are powerful. Anger (verse 29) and jealous attitudes can even affect our health. So can good attitudes, like happiness. Paul wrote, ‘I have learned how to be content in every situation. I...
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 SOUND HEART — _i.e._, one in healthy condition, of which the passions and emotions are under control....
חַיֵּ֣י בְ֭שָׂרִים לֵ֣ב מַרְפֵּ֑א וּ רְקַ֖ב ע
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...
_Bones. As a sound heart preserves the rest of the body, so a good intention often excuses from mortal sin, when the error is not gross. But envy corrupts the works which seem good, and which cannot b...
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...
A SOUND HEART [IS] THE LIFE OF THE FLESH,.... A heart made so by the grace of God, in which are sound principles of truth, righteousness, and holiness; these preserve from sin, and so from many diseas...
_A sound heart [is] the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones._ Ver. 30. _A sound heart is the life of the flesh._] A heart well freed from passions and perturbations holds out long...
_A sound heart_ Free from envy, and such like inordinate passions, which are commonly called the diseases of the soul, even in heathen, as well as in the sacred writers. Or, as others render לב מרפא,...
V. 30. A SOUND HEART IS THE LIFE OF THE FLESH, literally, "life of the members is a heart of composure"; for it is the tranquil spirit which is able to judge calmly and correctly, weighing all factors...
A SOUND HEART; free from envy and such-like inordinate passions, which are commonly called the diseases of the soul, not only in sacred, but even in heathen writers. Or, as others render it, _a healin...
Proverbs 14:30 sound H4832 heart H3820 life H2416 body H1320 envy H7068 rottenness H7538 bones H6106 sound -...
YHWH IS A REFUGE AND A WELLSPRING OF LIFE TO HIS PEOPLE WHOSE GLORY IS REVEALED, FIRSTLY, WHEN HIS PEOPLE ARE SELF-CONTROLLED AND SHOW COMPASSION ON THE NEEDY AND SECONDLY, BY HIS PROVIDING THEM A REF...
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...
_A sound heart is the life of the flesh._ HEART AND HEALTH A “sound heart” is a heart that gives its supreme affection to the supremely good. All other hearts are more or less rotten. Such a heart, t...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 14:28 Verses Proverbs 14:28 and Proverbs 14:35, both of which concern a...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 14:30. A SOUND HEART, “a quiet heart.” ENVY, “passion,” “perturbation.” _MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 14:30_ A SOUND HEART _The blessed effects of a contented spirit_. The...
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...
2 Timothy 1:7; Acts 7:9; James 4:5; Job 5:2; Proverbs 12:4;...