Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Proverbs 15:25
The proud — Of the mighty oppressors. The border — The estate, the border being often used, for the land within the borders.
The proud — Of the mighty oppressors. The border — The estate, the border being often used, for the land within the borders.
Verse Proverbs 15:25. _THE HOUSE OF THE PROUD_] Families of this description are seldom continued long. The Lord hates _pride_; and those that will not be _humble_ he will _destroy_....
THE WIDOW - Here, as elsewhere Deuteronomy 10:18; Psalms 68:5, the widow, as the most extreme type of desolation, stands as the representative of a class safer in their poverty under the protection of...
CHAPTER 15 THE BETTER THINGS One can read through the proverbs recorded in this chapter and ask the question, What are the better things? A soft answer which turneth away wrath is better than grievou...
PROVERBS 15. This chapter makes no new departure. Proverbs concerning the moral government of the world again occupy the chief place. One (Proverbs 15:11) is noteworthy as showing an extended concepti...
BORDER. landmark. Note the contrast with "house"....
_destroy_ Rather, ROOT UP, R.V., in contrast with _establish_in the next clause. _widow_ As typical of the humble and poor. Comp. Psalms 68:5, and for the sentiment 1 Peter 5:5....
TEXT Proverbs 15:23-33 23. A man hath joy in the answer of his mouth; And a word in due season, how good is it! 24. To the wise the way of life goeth upward, That he may depart from Sheol beneat...
The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow. THE LORD WILL DESTROY THE HOUSE OF THE PROUD: BUT HE WILL ESTABLISH THE BORDER OF THE WIDOW - whom "the...
1. GRIEVOUS] i.e. annoying. 'If one pour in hot water let the other pour in cold.'...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 15 V1 A quiet answer reduces anger. But an impatient word increases anger....
Everything that God does is right. Some people will praise a proud man. Some people think that proud people are very great. God does not think this. In the end, God will punish proud people. Some pe...
THE PROUD — who trust in their own strength; while He will “establish the border,” or landmark, of the helpless widow, who has none to cry to but Him. The frequently threatened punishment against one...
בֵּ֣ית גֵּ֭אִים יִסַּ֥ח ׀ יְהוָ֑ה וְ֝ יַצֵּ֗ב...
CHAPTER 16 A PASSIONATE DISPOSITION "A soft answer turneth away wrath: but a grievous word stirreth up anger." In the LXX there is another clause inserted at the beginning.- Proverbs 15:1 "A meek t...
WORDS IN SEASON Proverbs 15:18-33 Learn to be slow to anger. This paragraph describes the even temper which is blessed to live with and blessed to die with. Temper is said to be nine-tenths of Christ...
Verse Proverbs 15:11. This is a simple method of drawing attention to God's perfect knowledge of all the deepest and hidden things. If that which is most full of mystery to us is perfectly known to Hi...
A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife. The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain. A wise son maketh a...
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 LORD WILL DESTROY THE HOUSE OF THE PROUD,.... To whom he has the utmost aversion; he sets himself against them and resists them, and will not only destroy them, but their stately houses too, which...
The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow. Ver. 25. _The Lord will destroy the house of the proud._] Where he thinks himself most safe, God will pull...
_The Lord will destroy the house of the proud_ Of the most mighty oppressors, who suppose themselves to be immoveably fixed; or the family of haughty men, who, forgetting him, trample upon their infer...
V. 25. THE LORD WILL DESTROY THE HOUSE OF THE PROUD, visiting him, his family, and all his possessions with punishment; BUT HE WILL ESTABLISH THE BORDER OF THE WIDOW, not permit the boundary line of h...
OF THE PROUD; of the most mighty oppressors, who conceit themselves to be unmovably fixed. THE BORDER; either, 1. The estate, _the border_ being oft used for the land within the borders, as PSALMS 10...
Proverbs 15:25 LORD H3068 destroy H5255 (H8799) house H1004 proud H1343 establish H5324 (H8686) boundary H1366
CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The course of the wicked man is an abomination to God, neither is there any offering he can make to God that can be accepte...
Proverbs 15:1. _A soft answer turneth away wrath._ It bows to the tempest, it names a mitigating circumstance, it gives a favourable turn to misconstruction, it proposes a better way. My father, said...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 15:25 These proverbs begin and end with a contrast: THE LORD opposes the PROUD (v....
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 15:25. ESTABLISH THE BORDER, or “Keep fixed the landmark.” _MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 15:25_ DESTRUCTION AND ESTABLISHMENT I. THE CHARACTER OF THOSE DOOMED TO DESTRUCTIO...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 15:1 A SOFT ANSWER TURNETH AWAY WRATH. Two things are here to be observed: an answer should be given—the injured person should not wrap himself in sullen silence; and that answer...
Fifteen. I love this first one here. A soft answer turns away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger (Proverbs 15:1). How oftentimes a person comes just raging and a soft answer turns away wrath. If...
1 Peter 5:5; Daniel 5:20; Deuteronomy 10:17; Deuteronomy 10:18;...