Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Proverbs 24:23
These — The counsels following, to the end of the chapter, no less than those hitherto mentioned, are worthy of their consideration.
These — The counsels following, to the end of the chapter, no less than those hitherto mentioned, are worthy of their consideration.
Verse Proverbs 24:23. _THESE_ THINGS _ALSO_ BELONG _TO THE WISE._] גם אלה לחכמים _gam elleh lachachamim_, "These also to wise." This appears to be a _new section_; and perhaps, what follows belongs to...
BELONG TO THE WISE - Either “are fitting for the wise, addressed to them,” or (as in the superscriptions of many of the Psalms) “are written by the wise.” Most recent commentators take it in the latte...
CHAPTER 24 INSTRUCTIONS CONTINUED In the final instructions of this chapter we find first a description of the evil men. Their heart studieth destruction; their lips talk mischief. This theme is repea...
SECOND DIVISION, PROVERBS 24:23. This section constitutes the second division of the Sayings of the Wise, as Proverbs 24:23 a indicates. It contains a short collection of sayings varying in form and...
BELONG TO. are [the words of] the wise (plural) See the Structure, p. 891, and note on Proverbs 22:17....
IV. Third Collection of Proverbs. Chap. Proverbs 24:23-34 A short Collection resembling in character the Second Collection, to which it forms a kind of Appendix. 23. _These_things _also_belong _to_ R...
THESE THINGS ALSO BELONG TO THE WISE— The meaning may be, that the following proverbs were selected from the books of the wise men who lived after Solomon, to the time of Hezekiah. The words at the he...
TEXT Proverbs 24:23-34 23. These also are sayings of the wise. To have respect of persons in judgment is not good. 24. He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous, Peoples shall curse him,...
These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment. Here begins a collection of maxims closing the second part, Proverbs 11:1; Proverbs 12:1; Proverbs 13:1...
5. Read, 'A wise man is better than a warrior, and a man of knowledge than a man of strength.'...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 24 V1 Do not be jealous of evil men. Do not try to meet them. V2
The 30 Wise Lessons are complete. They are important lessons. But there is more wisdom that the writer wants to teach us. An unfair judge is terrible. God will punish that judge. But a fair judge mak...
6. SECOND APPENDIX TO “THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON,” CONTAINING PROVERBS OF VARIOUS LENGTHS, RESEMBLING Proverbs 1:7; Proverbs 1:7, AND THE BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES (Proverbs 24:23). (23) These things also b...
גַּם ־אֵ֥לֶּה לַֽ חֲכָמִ֑ים הַֽכֵּר ־פָּנִ֖ים...
CHAPTER 25 FORGIVING "Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause, and deceive not with thy lips. Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me; I will render to the man according to hi...
Warnings are uttered against envy, against the formation of evil companionships, against excess in passion, against all false exhilaration; and perperpetual attention to wisdom and earnest endeavor to...
_These. Septuagint have an addition, and then our chap. xxx. to ver. 15., after which follows the remainder of this chap. and then the ten first verses of the 31st. (Haydock) --- Solomon here resumes...
Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked; For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out. My son, fear thou the LORD and the...
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...
THESE [THINGS] ALSO [BELONG] TO THE WISE,.... Both what is said before concerning fearing God and the king; these belong to the wise and unwise, rich and poor, great and small; particularly judges and...
_These [things] also [belong] to the wise. [It is] not good to have respect of persons in judgment._ Ver. 23. _These things also belong to the wise._] As subjects must know their duties, so magistrat...
_These things also_, &c. These words seem to be a new title to the proverbs which follow to the end of the chapter, and Calmet, Grotius, Grey, and some others, are of opinion the meaning is, that thes...
V. 23. THESE THINGS ALSO BELONG TO THE WISE, the proverbs, or maxims, now following are ascribed to wise men, from this point to the end of the chapter. IT IS NOT GOOD TO HAVE RESPECT OF PERSONS IN JU...
THESE THINGS ALSO, these proverbs or counsels here following to the end of the chapter, no less than those hitherto mentioned, BELONG TO THE WISE; are worthy of the consideration, and fit for the use,...
Proverbs 24:23 wise H2450 good H2896 partiality H5234 (H8687) H6440 judgment H4941 things -...
CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: If wicked people prosper, we should not be inclined to do as they do, nor complain of what God does in His provide...
Proverbs 24:1. _Be not envious against evil men._ Similar thoughts occur in Psalms 37:1; Psalms 73; Proverbs 17:1. Why should we envy the wicked? We are all g
_These things also belong to the wise._ SOCIAL CONDUCT I. Here is partiality of judgment; that is bad. “It is no good to have respect of persons in judgment.” The principle of impartiality is enjoine...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 24:23 Further Sayings of “the Wise.” (See note on 22:17–24:22.) These sayings are grouped in a parallel fashion, as follows:...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 24:23. THESE THINGS ALSO BELONG TO THE WISE. Rather “_These_ (the proverbs which follow) _are also from wise men_” The word _also_ connects this introduction with that in ch...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 24:1 We return here to the more usual form, the tetrastich. BE NOT THOU ENVIOUS AGAINST EVIL MEN (see on Proverbs 23:17, where a similar warning is given, and comp....
Again, he continues in twenty-four in putting them together in couplets or in phrases. Be not envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. For their heart studies destruction, and their...
1 Peter 1:17; 1 Timothy 5:20; 1 Timothy 5:21; 2 Chronicles 19:7;...