Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Proverbs 24:7
A fool — For a wicked man, whose sins enfeeble his mind, and make it incapable of wisdom. Openeth not — He knows not how to speak acceptably, and profitably in the publick assembly.
A fool — For a wicked man, whose sins enfeeble his mind, and make it incapable of wisdom. Openeth not — He knows not how to speak acceptably, and profitably in the publick assembly.
Verse Proverbs 24:7. _A FOOL - OPENETH NOT HIS MOUTH IN THE GATE._] Is not put into public offices of trust and responsibility....
IN THE GATE - Compare the Proverbs 22:22 note....
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...
WISDOM. Hebrew, plural. true wisdom. See notes on Proverbs 1:20; Proverbs 9:1. and Compare Proverbs 14:1. IS TOO HIGH. seems to be, or is regarded as coral: i.e. as an ornament costly, and, to him, un...
too _high_ Lit. (_unattainable_) HEIGHTS. The same Heb. word is rendered _coral_, Job 28:18; Ezekiel 27:16; so that we might render here _an_unattainable _treasure_, or _a gem_beyond his reach. _opene...
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...
Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate. WISDOM IS TOO HIGH FOR A FOOL - to attain unto. The difficulty lies not in wisdom, which is easy to the sincere, but in the foo...
24:7 fool. (d-7) Or 'Jewels (lit. 'high-priced things') for a fool are wisdom.'...
5. Read, 'A wise man is better than a warrior, and a man of knowledge than a man of strength.'...
When put on his trial 'in the gate' of the city, where public business was usually transacted, he has nothing to say (Matthew 22:12)....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 24 V1 Do not be jealous of evil men. Do not try to meet them. V2
In ancient Israel, the men from a city would meet at the city gate. They would discuss the city’s problems together. Sometimes they would act like judges in a court. Sometimes they would decide whethe...
WISDOM IS TOO HIGH FOR A FOOL. — For “wisdom” (literally, _wisdoms_)_,_ comp. note on Proverbs 1:20. He has been too self-willed to learn; so while others express their opinions when the business or j...
רָאמֹ֣ות לֶֽ אֱוִ֣יל חָכְמֹ֑ות בַּ֝ † שַּׁ֗עַר...
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...
Wisdom [is] too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the (a) gate. (a) In the place where wisdom should be shown....
_High. Thus the fool excuses himself. But wisdom condescends to our weakness, if we be truly in earnest, Deuteronomy xxxii. 12. Mouth. To defend himself, or to give advice. (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...
WISDOM [IS] TOO HIGH FOR A FOOL,.... It is out of his reach, he cannot attain it; natural wisdom, or the knowledge of many things in nature; at least it seems so to himself, and therefore will not tak...
Wisdom [is] too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate. Ver. 7. _Wisdom is too hard for a fool._] Heb., Too high; his _pericranium_ comprehends it not, "neither indeed can" do. 1Co 2:1...
_Wisdom is too high for a fool_ For a wicked man, whose sins enfeeble his mind, and make it incapable of wisdom. Or, he judges it too difficult for him to understand: he despairs of attaining it, beca...
V. 7. WISDOM IS TOO HIGH, altogether unattainable, FOR A FOOL; HE OPENETH NOT HIS MOUTH IN THE GATE, he cannot be consulted by the leading men of the city as they deliberate upon the welfare of the co...
WISDOM IS TOO HIGH FOR A FOOL; either, 1. Really, it is above his reach or capacity. Or, 2. In his opinion; he judgeth it too hard for him, he despairs of attaining it, he pretends the impossibility...
Proverbs 24:7 Wisdom H2454 lofty H7311 (H8802) fool H191 open H6605 (H8799) mouth H6310 gate H8179...
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
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 24:7 Other proverbs indicate that the FOOL can never stop talking (e.g., Proverbs 10:19;...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 24:7. WISDOM IS TOO HIGH, etc. Delitzsch here reads, _Wisdom seems to the fool to be an ornamental commodity_, and thinks “the comparison lies in the rarity, costliness, and...
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 Corinthians 2:14; Amos 5:10; Amos 5:12; Amos 5:15; Isaiah 29:21;...