Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Proverbs 24:5
Is strong — Is courageous and resolute, and able by wisdom to do greater things than others can accomplish by strength.
Is strong — Is courageous and resolute, and able by wisdom to do greater things than others can accomplish by strength.
Verse Proverbs 24:5. _A WISE MAN_ IS _STRONG._] His wisdom enables him to construct a great variety of machines, by which, under his own influence, he can do the labour of a hundred or even a thousan...
IS STRONG - literally, as in the margin; i. e., rooted and established in strength....
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...
PROVERBS 24:7 A. Lit. Wisdom is corals to the fool. RV involves a change m the text, which gives perhaps the best sense that can be made of an obviously corrupt stanza. Proverbs 24:9. thought: the wor...
A WISE MAN, &C.. A strong man [if wise] is strong indeed. Aramaean, Syriac, and Septuagint read "[Better]. wise man than. mighty". MAN. Hebrew. _geber._ App-14. INCREASETH STRENGTH. Aram, and Syriac...
_strong_ Lit. IN STRENGTH, A.V. and R.V. marg. Comp. The voice of Jehovah is in might; The voice of Jehovah is in majesty. Psalms 29:4. "The expression is more forcible than if adjectives denoting t...
A WISE MAN IS STRONG— The LXX read, _A wise man is better than a strong one, and a man of understanding than a strong labourer._ This reading seems preferable to ours; which, however, may imply accord...
CHAPTER 24 TEXT Proverbs 24:1-12 1. Be not thou envious against evil men; Neither desire to be with them: 2. For their heart studieth oppression, And their lips talk of mischief. 3. Through wi...
A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength. A WISE MAN (HEBREW, geber (H1397 ), A HERO) IS STRONG - Hebrew, is in strength; i:e., invested with it. Wisdom more then supplies...
24:5 man (a-3) _ Geber._ see Job 3:3 ....
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
You can count the number of soldiers in an army. But the number of soldiers does not win the battle. Your soldiers may be strong and brave. But this does not win the battle. The army needs a wise comm...
A MAN OF KNOWLEDGE INCREASETH STRENGTH. — For the spiritual sense, comp. 2 Peter 3:18....
גֶּֽבֶר ־חָכָ֥ם בַּ † עֹ֑וז וְ אִֽישׁ...
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...
_Valiant, as well as a good economist, ver. 4. (Calmet)_...
Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief. Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it...
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 WISE MAN [IS] STRONG,.... He can do that sometimes by his wisdom, and which requires strength and courage too, which another cannot do by his strength; see Proverbs 21:22. This may be understood of...
A wise man [is] strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength. Ver. 5. _A wise man is strong._] _See Trapp on "_ Pro 21:22 _"_...
_Through wisdom is a house built_ There is no need that thou shouldst raise thyself and family by ruining others, as the manner of wicked men is; for thou mayest more easily and effectually do it by w...
V. 5. A WISE MAN IS STRONG, full of strength, exerting a powerful influence; YEA, A MAN OF KNOWLEDGE, one making use of proper circumspection and caution, INCREASETH STRENGTH, develops and extends his...
IS STRONG: _ Heb._ is in strength INCREASED STRENGTH: _ Heb._ strengtheneth might...
IS STRONG; is courageous and resolute, and able by wisdom to do greater things than others can accomplish by their own strength....
Proverbs 24:5 wise H2450 man H1397 strong H5797 man H376 knowledge H1847 increases H553 (H8764) strength H3581...
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
_A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength _ WISDOM THE STRENGTH OF THE MIND The changes of life often have unhappy effects on the temper of our minds. A defence against the...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 24:5 Wisdom is the source of true strength. Strength and might apart from wisdom will be ineffective. WISE GUIDANCE obtained from an ABUNDANCE OF COUNSELORS is the key to...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 24:5. A MAN OF KNOWLEDGE, rather “_a man of understanding_,” INCREASETH STRENGTH, literally “_maketh power strong_.” Miller translates the entire verse thus:—“_A strong man,...
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...
Colossians 1:11; Ecclesiastes 7:19; Ecclesiastes 9:14; Isaiah 40:31;...