Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Proverbs 16:10
A divine sentence — Great sagacity and piercing judgment. Of the king — Of wise kings; who only are worthy of that name and office.
A divine sentence — Great sagacity and piercing judgment. Of the king — Of wise kings; who only are worthy of that name and office.
Verse Proverbs 16:10. _A DIVINE SENTENCE_] קסם _kesem_, "divination," as the margin has it. Is the meaning as follows? Though _divination_ were applied to a righteous king's lips, to induce him to pu...
A DIVINE SENTENCE - See the margin, i. e., “soothsaying” in its darker aspect as contrasted with prophecy. The true oracle is to be sought, not from soothsayers and diviners, but “at the lips of the k...
CHAPTER 16 IN THE LIGHT OF THE LORD The name Jehovah (LORD) appears eleven times in this chapter of Proverbs. The Lord has the final word, for to man belong the preparations (or plans) of the heart; b...
PROVERBS 16. The special feature is a group of aphorisms (Proverbs 16:10) relating to kings. The sentiments seem rather to reflect the picture of the ideal king than to indicate any particular period....
A DIVINE SENTENCE. an oracle. LIPS. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6, for what is uttered by them. TRANSGRESSETH NOT: or, will not be unfaithful....
_A divine sentence_ Lit. DIVINATION, A.V. and R.V. marg. The word is generally used in a bad sense, "soothsaying." See Deuteronomy 18:10, where it is positively forbidden, and 1 Samuel 15:23, where it...
A DIVINE SENTENCE IS IN THE LIPS OF THE KING— These words, according to Melancthon, affirm the whole political order, magistrates, laws, distinction of dominions, contracts, judgments, punishments, to...
CHAPTER 16 TEXT Proverbs 16:1-11 1. The plans of the heart belong to man; But the answer of the tongue is from Jehovah. 2. All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; But Jehovah weigheth t...
A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment. A DIVINE SENTENCE (IS) IN THE LIPS OF THE KING. What a just and wise king (one worthy by of the high name and...
1-9. God's control of human life....
His sentence has the force of a divine oracle....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 16 The subject of the book now begins to change. In earlier Chapter s, the main subject is the difference between wise actions and evil action...
Solomon was a king. In verses 10-15, he explains how kings and other rulers behave. God has given authority to kings. Their decisions are important and affect many people. So a king must always be re...
HIS MOUTH TRANSGRESSETH NOT IN JUDGMENT. — Or, _should not transgress,_ as being the representative of God upon earth, and so distinguished by the title of “God” himself (Psalms 82:6). This verse reca...
קֶ֤סֶם ׀ עַֽל ־שִׂפְתֵי ־מֶ֑לֶךְ בְּ֝ מִשְׁפָּ֗ט...
CHAPTER 17 A JUST BALANCE "A just balance and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are His work."- Proverbs 16:11 "A false balance is an abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is H...
CHAPTER 29 AN ASPECT OF ATONEMENT "He that hideth his transgressions shall not prosper; but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall obtain mercy."- Proverbs 28:13 "Happy is the man that feareth...
Verse Proverbs 16:1. A somewhat obscure proverb which recognizes that man has to exercise his own reason in making his plans, but that he is dependent on the Lord for the answer of the tongue. Dr. Per...
_Judgment. Or "let it not err," as people look upon the decisions of kings as so many oracles. We ought to act in this manner, as long as they are not visibly unjust. God gave a principal spirit (Psal...
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right. A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps. A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth trans...
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 DIVINE SENTENCE [IS] IN THE LIPS OF THE KING,.... Or "divination" f, as the word signifies; or what is like to divination, as Aben Ezra and Gersom interpret it g. What be says is as an oracle, and s...
A divine sentence [is] in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment. Ver. 10. _A divine sentence is in the lips of the king._] It is, or should be. His words usually pass for orac...
_A divine sentence_ Hebrew, קסם, _divination_, (a word which is sometimes taken in a good sense for _prudence_, as Isaiah 3:2,) that is, great sagacity, and a piercing judgment to discern dubious and...
V. 10. A DIVINE SENTENCE IS IN THE LIPS OF THE KING, he, in his position as sovereign, makes his decision as the representative of Jehovah; HIS MOUTH TRANSGRESSETH NOT IN JUDGMENT, he may not use his...
DIVINE: _ Heb._ divinationProverbs 16:11 ALL THE WEIGHTS:_ Heb._ all the stones...
A DIVINE SENTENCE, Heb. _divination_, which is sometimes taken in a good sense for prudence, as it is ISAIAH 3:2. A great sagacity and piercing judgment to discern dubious and difficult cases. IS; or,...
Proverbs 16:10 Divination H7081 lips H8193 king H4428 mouth H6310 transgress H4603 (H8799) judgment H4941 A divine sentence - Heb. D
YHWH IS CONCERNED ABOUT INJUSTICE WHETHER AT THE HANDS OF THE KING OR OF MEN (PROVERBS 16:8). In this subsection men are urged to act justly and rightly in their business dealings, and kings are urged...
CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The safest way in which to travel is the way of the upright, a way which God makes plain to those who desire to walk in it....
Proverbs 16:1. _The preparations of the heart in man._ As the field must be plowed, and the soil prepared for the seeds, so the heart of man must be prepared for grace. Afflictions in Egypt disposed t...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 16:10 The remaining sections of ch. Proverbs 16:1 illustrate the benefits of wisdom for the well-being of the heart (vv....
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 16:10. A DIVINE SENTENCE, literally _“divination,” i.e., “an oracle_” or “_a decision_.” “HIS MOUTH TRANSGRESSETH NOT.” Stuart and Delitzsch read, “_In judgment his mouth sh...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 16:1 These are specially religions maxims, and they all contain the name Jehovah. PROVERBS 16:1 The Authorized Version makes one sentence of this verse without any contrast or a...
Shall we turn now to Proverbs 16:1-33, the sixteenth chapter and begin our study this evening. The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD (Proverbs 16:1). Go...
2 Samuel 23:3; 2 Samuel 23:4; Amos 5:7; Amos 6:12; Deuteronomy 17:18;