Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Proverbs 18:21
Death and life — Are brought upon men by, the good or bad use of their tongues. Lovest — That love much talking.
Death and life — Are brought upon men by, the good or bad use of their tongues. Lovest — That love much talking.
Verse Proverbs 18:21. _DEATH AND LIFE_ ARE _IN THE POWER OF THE TONGUE_] This may apply to all men. Many have lost their lives by their tongue, and some have saved their lives by it: but it applies mo...
CHAPTER 18 PROVERBS OF PERSONAL INSTRUCTION There is first a warning against separation produced by desire, that is for gratification and pleasure, and not for a righteous purpose. Such a one becomes...
PROVERBS 18:1. MT yields no satisfactory sense. The LXX reads The man who wishes to separate from his friends seeks pretexts, but is always liable to reproach. Frankenberg renders the alienated friend...
POWER. Hebrew "hand", put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6, for the power put forth by it. THE TONGUE. Illustrations: the ten spies (Numbers 14:36; Numbers 14:37); Doeg (1 Samuel 22:9;...
_love it_ i.e. delight in using it, as an instrument either of "death" or of "life....
STUDY QUESTIONS OVER 18:13-24 1. How is it folly to him (Proverbs 18:13)? 2. How is it shame to him (Proverbs 18:13)? 3. What would a doctor get out of Proverbs 18:14? 4. L
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. DEATH AND LIFE (ARE) IN THE POWER OF THE TONGUE. "Death and life," both of body and soul; both of...
1. Lit. 'One who separates himself seeks desire, quarrels with all wisdom.' This would mean that a solitary recluse follows his own wishes and opposes everything reasonable. But LXX suggests, 'The ali...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 18 V1 An unfriendly man is selfish. He is not sensible. V2 A foo
When a judge makes his judgement, he can punish a man with death. When a thief makes an evil plan, his words can plot a man’s death. Our words also bring results. We can tell people how to become Chr...
DEATH AND LIFE ARE IN THE POWER OF THE TONGUE. — See above on Proverbs 4:23, where much the same power is attributed to the heart as is here given to the tongue as being its exponent. (Comp. also Prov...
מָ֣וֶת וְ֭ חַיִּים בְּ יַד ־לָשֹׁ֑ון וְ֝
CHAPTER 19 THE EVIL OF ISOLATION "He that separates himself follows after his own desire, but against all sound wisdom he shows his teeth."- Proverbs 18:1 FROM the value of friendship there is a nat...
Verse Proverbs 18:1. The protest of this proverb is against the self-satisfaction which makes a man separate himself from the thoughts and opinions of others. Such a one finally "rages against," or "q...
Death and life [are] in the power of the tongue: and they that (o) love it shall eat the fruit of it. (o) By the using the tongue well or evil, comes the fruit of it either good or bad....
_Love it, and speak well or ill, shall receive accordingly, Matthew xii. 37._...
He that is first in his own cause seemeth just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him. The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty. A brother offended is harder to be won...
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...
DEATH AND LIFE [ARE] IN THE POWER OF THE TONGUE,.... Of witnesses, according to the testimony they bear; of judges, according to the sentence they pass; of teachers, according to the doctrine they pre...
Death and life [are] in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. Ver. 21. _Death and life are in the power of the tongue._] That best and worst member of the body,...
_Life and death are in the power of the tongue_ Are brought upon men by the good or bad use of their tongues; _and they that love it_ Namely, the tongue; that love much talking; _shall eat the fruit t...
V. 21. DEATH AND LIFE ARE IN THE POWER OF THE TONGUE, that is, the one or the other will be the fate of man, in agreement with the manner in which he used his tongue; AND THEY THAT LOVE IT SHALL EAT T...
ARE IN THE POWER OF THE TONGUE; are brought upon men by the good or bad use of their tongues. THAT LOVE IT; either, 1. The tongue; that love and use much talking, which is oft censured as a sin, and...
Proverbs 18:21 Death H4194 life H2416 power H3027 tongue H3956 love H157 (H8802) eat H398 (H8799) fruit...
THE TONGUE AFFECTS MAN IN MANY WAYS, MAKING HIM STRONG AND WISE, AND GIVING HIM LIFE, OR CAUSING HIM GREAT GRIEF, FINALLY RESULTING IN DEATH (PROVERBS 18:14). In this subsection we have an emphasis on...
Proverbs 18:21 I. The tongue is like a steed (James 3:3): (1) When it speaks too much; (2) when it is boasting; (3) when it is angry. II. The tongue is like a sword (Psalms 57:4): (1) Against the wea...
CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The only zone of safety is the name of the Lord which is the strong tower in which one may find rest and be fortified again...
Proverbs 18:1. _Through desire a man having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom._ יתגלע _yithgalâ;_ this word occurs but thrice, and only in the book of Proverbs; viz. here, a...
_Death and life are in the power of the tongue._ THE POWER OF SPEECH Of all the powers that man possesses there is scarcely any more awful than the power of speech. It is a God-like power. Human spee...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 18:20. SATISFIED. “If this word is taken in a good sense the _fruit_ must be good; but it may be ironical, meaning false or malignant words will find ample retribution. Perh...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 18:1 This is a difficult verse, and has obtained various interpretations. The Authorized Version gives, THROUGH DESIRE A MAN, HAVING SEPARATED HIMSELF, SEEKETH AND INTERMEDDLETH W...
Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeks and intermeddleth with all wisdom. A fool has no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself. When the wicked comes, then com...
2 Corinthians 11:15; 2 Corinthians 2:16; 2 Peter 2:18; Colossians 4:6;...