Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Proverbs 21:6
Lying tongue — By any false or deceitful words or actions. Is tossed — Is like the chaff or smoak driven away by the wind. Of them — That take those courses which will bring destruction upon them.
Lying tongue — By any false or deceitful words or actions. Is tossed — Is like the chaff or smoak driven away by the wind. Of them — That take those courses which will bring destruction upon them.
Verse Proverbs 21:6. _OF THEM THAT SEEK DEATH_] Instead of מבקשי _mebakshey_, "them that seek," several MSS., some ancient editions, with _Symmachus_, the _Septuagint, Vulgate_, and _Arabic_, have מק...
VANITY - Or, “a breath driven to and fro of those that are seeking death.” Another reading of the last words is: “of the snares of death” (compare 1 Timothy 6:9). Some commentators have suggested that...
CHAPTER 21 PERSONAL INSTRUCTIONS AS TO LIFE AND CONDUCT In the proverbs of this chapter the Lord is mentioned five times. “The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: He turne...
PROVERBS 21:1. WATERCOURSES: not the natural brooks and wadys of Palestine, but the artificial irrigation canals of Egypt or Babylonia, which could be diverted in any direction at will. Proverbs 21:4....
_a vanity_&c. Lit. A VAPOUR DISPERSED; SEEKERS OF DEATH. Thus in the abrupt, sententious style of the wisdom of the East the end is described both of the treasures so sought, and of those who so seek...
THE GETTING OF TREASURES BY A LYING TONGUE— _He who gathers treasures by a deceitful tongue, pursues vain things. He shall be driven into the snares of death._ Houbigant....
CHAPTER 21 TEXT Proverbs 21:1-10 1. The king's heart is in the hand of Jehovah as the water courses: He turneth it whithersoever he will. 2. Every way of a man is right in his own eyes; But Jeho...
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death. THE GETTING OF TREASURES BY A LYING TONGUE (BY FALSE WITNESS, OR BY MISREPRESENTATION IN BARGAINING...
1. The 'watercourses' (RV) are the artificial irrigation channels of Egypt and Babylon (Isaiah 58:11)....
By a very slight alteration of the Hebrew text we get the greatly improved rendering of RM, 'Is a vapour driven to and fro; they are snares of death.'...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 21 V1 A king is like a canal that God controls. God leads the king in the way that God decides....
This person cheats and steals to get money. He refuses to work to earn his money. God will punish him, even if judges do not punish him. Suddenly he will lose all his money. See Luke 12:20-21....
IS A VANITY TOSSED TO AND FRO OF THEM THAT SEEK DEATH. — Rather, _is_ (as) _the driven_ (fleeting) _breath of those who are seeking death._ They are seeking in reality not riches, but death, and these...
פֹּ֣עַל אֹ֭וצָרֹות בִּ לְשֹׁ֣ון שָׁ֑קֶר הֶ֥בֶל...
CHAPTER 22 WINE "He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: He that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich."- Proverbs 21:17 THE Septuagint translation has an interesting addition to the proverb in...
Verse Proverbs 21:4. The "lamp" of a man's life is his spirit. Where that is exalted and manifests itself in the high look and the proud heart, there is sin. All of which is to say that for a man to f...
_Death. Their injustice shall be punished._...
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts. To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice. An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowi...
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 GETTING OF TREASURES BY A LYING TONGUE,.... By telling lies in trade; by bearing false witness in a court of judicature; or by preaching false doctrines in the church of God: [IS] A VANITY TOSSED...
_The getting of treasures by a lying tongue [is] a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death._ Ver. 6. _The getting of treasures by a lying tongue._] As do seducers, sycophants, flatterers, co...
_The thoughts of the diligent_ Who carefully and industriously prosecutes what he hath wisely contrived and resolved; _tend only to plenteousness_ To affluence and wealth; _but every one that is hasty...
V. 6. THE GETTING OF TREASURES BY A LYING TONGUE, by means of misrepresentations and concealment of the truth, IS A VANITY TOSSED TO AND FRO OF THEM THAT SEEK DEATH, like a fleeting breath, a vanishin...
BY A LYING TONGUE; by false witness-hearing, or by any other false or deceitful words or actions, whereby many men get riches. IS A VANITY TOSSED TO AND FRO; is like the chaff or smoke driven away by...
Proverbs 21:6 Getting H6467 treasures H214 lying H8267 tongue H3956 fleeting H5086 (H8737) fantasy H1892 seek H1245
CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Those who follow after righteousness, shall find righteousness, honor and life. KEY WORD: Counsel (Proverbs 20:5). STRONG VERSES: P...
Proverbs 21:1. _The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord; as the rivers of water, he turneth it whithersoever he will._ The allusion is probably to the water-meads and the ditches in the corn field...
_The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity._ DISHONESTY I. The evil of dishonesty. 1. A breach of the law of God. 2. An invasion of the Divine right of property. 3. An encouragement...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 21:5. THOUGHTS, rather the _counsels_, the _calculatings_. PROVERBS 21:6. VANITY TOSSED TO AND FRO. Rather _a fleeting breath_. The Hebrew word _hebel_, here translated van...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 21:1 THE KING'S HEART IS IN THE HAND OF THE LORD, AS THE RIVERS OF WATER. We are to think of the little channels used for irrigation. As these are altogether under the gardener's...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Proverbs 21:1-31. Proverbs 21:1-31, Solomon declares: The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will (Prov...
1 Timothy 6:10; 1 Timothy 6:9; 2 Peter 2:3; Ezekiel 18:31; Jeremia