Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Proverbs 22:12
Preserve — God by the watchful eye of his providence maintains and defends. Knowledge — Men of knowledge, knowing and good men. The matters — All his hopes, enterprizes, and concerns.
Preserve — God by the watchful eye of his providence maintains and defends. Knowledge — Men of knowledge, knowing and good men. The matters — All his hopes, enterprizes, and concerns.
Verse Proverbs 22:12. _THE EYES OF THE LORD _- (the Divine providence) _PRESERVE_ _KNOWLEDGE_] This providence has been wonderfully manifested in _preserving the sacred oracles_, and in _preserving ma...
CHAPTER 22 INSTRUCTIONS CONTINUED Better than great riches, better than silver and gold is a name and loving favor. If a person has riches and a bad name and is not well thought of, he is less honorab...
PROVERBS 22:6. IN THE WAY HE SHOULD GO puts more into the Heb. than it contains. It is lit. train up a child in proportion to his way_ i.e._ train him suitably. The moral implication is absent. The st...
PRESERVE. guard. WORDS: or affairs. Hebrew. _dabar._ App-73. TRANSGRESSOR. traitor. Hebrew. _bagad._ Illustrations: Ahithophel (2 Samuel 17:14); Noadiah (Nehemiah 6:14); Ezra's opponents (Ezra 3:3;
_knowledge_ R.V. rightly inserts _him that hath_, before _knowledge_. _transgressor_ Rather, TREACHEROUS MAN, R.V....
TEXT Proverbs 22:11-21 11. He that loveth pureness of heart, For the grace of his lips the king will be his friend. 12. The eyes of Jehovah preserve him that hath knowledge; But he overthroweth...
The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor. THE EYES OF THE LORD PRESERVE KNOWLEDGE - namely, that of the godly, practical, and experimental knowledg...
22:12 unfaithful. (e-14) Or 'treacherous [man].' as ch. 21.18. see chs. 2.22 and 25.19....
1. To be regarded with favour is better than silver and gold. This v. is inscribed in large letters on the walls of Manchester Exchange. Rabbi Simeon used to say: 'There are only three crowns; the cro...
Read, 'The eyes of the Lord are in him that keepeth knowledge.' Here we reach the first collection of what were supposed to be Solomon's proverbs. Most of them consist of two lines parallel to each o...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 22 V1 It is better to be a responsible person than to have great wealth. It is better that people trust you than for you to receive silver and...
People may fail, but God’s word will never fail. God preserves his truth. Nobody can successfully oppose God. God will not allow anyone to destroy the truth. ‘Knowledge’ here means knowledge about Go...
THE EYES OF THE LORD PRESERVE KNOWLEDGE — _i.e.,_ men who know and speak the truth. (See above on Proverbs 21:28.) HE OVERTHROWETH THE WORDS OF THE TRANSGRESSOR — _i.e._, the deceitful; He brings his...
עֵינֵ֣י יְ֭הוָה נָ֣צְרוּ דָ֑עַת וַ֝ יְסַלֵּ֗ף...
CHANNEL 23 THE TREATMENT OF THE POOR "The rich and the needy meet together; The Lord is the maker of them all."- Proverbs 22:2 "He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed, for he giveth of his b...
“HE THAT LOVETH PURENESS OF HEART” Proverbs 22:1-16 Great riches are not always a great blessing. When they are held in trust for God, they afford the opportunity of giving a vast amount of happiness...
Verse Proverbs 22:2. The question that naturally arises on reading this is, Where do they meet together? This proverb is often used as having reference to the sanctuary or house of prayer; but a very...
The eyes of the LORD preserve (h) knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor. (h) Favour them that love knowledge....
Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease. He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend. The eyes of the LORD...
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 EYES OF THE LORD PRESERVE KNOWLEDGE,.... That is, the providence of God, whose eyes run to and fro throughout the whole earth; these preserve the knowledge of himself, even among the Heathens in s...
The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor. Ver. 12. _The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge._] That is, Knowing persons. Those in the former verse th...
_The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge_ God, by the watchful eye of his providence, maintains and defends men of knowledge, or wise and good men, such as the last verse spoke of, whose hearts are pu...
V. 12. THE EYES OF THE LORD PRESERVE KNOWLEDGE, for His eyes are fixed in protecting care upon those who observe the norm of true knowledge as found in His Word, AND HE OVERTHROWETH THE WORDS OF THE T...
THE WORDS: Or, the matters...
THE EYES OF THE LORD PRESERVE, God by the watchful eye of his providence maintains and defends, KNOWLEDGE, to wit, men of knowledge; the abstract being put for the concrete, as _pride_ is put for _a p...
Proverbs 22:12 eyes H5869 LORD H3068 preserve H5341 (H8804) knowledge H1847 overthrows H5557 (H8762) words H1697
CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: Those who walk humbly with God in obedience to the commands of His Word and in submission to the disposals of His providenc...
Proverbs 22:1. _A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches._ When a man lives revered for his piety, it is better than to be feared for his power. Proverbs 22:2. _The rich and the poor meet...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 22:12_ THE PRESERVATION OF KNOWLEDGE I. GOD PRESERVES KNOWLEDGE BY PRESERVING THE MAN WHO POSSESSES THE KNOWLEDGE. The preservation of the life of the man of science who...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 22:1 A GOOD NAME IS RATHER TO BE CHOSEN THAN GREAT RICHES. It will be observed that "good" in the Authorized Version is in italics, showing that the epithet is not expressed in th...
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold (Proverbs 22:1). The good name, so important, so valuable. Good reputation, so important. "Rather to...
2 Chronicles 16:9; 2 Thessalonians 2:8; 2 Timothy 3:8; 2 Timothy 3:9;...