Darby's translation notes (1890)
Proverbs 23:29
23:29 sorrow? (g-6) Lit. 'Whose is, ''Oh!'' Whose is, ''woe is me!''?' redness (h-16) Or 'darkening.'
23:29 sorrow? (g-6) Lit. 'Whose is, ''Oh!'' Whose is, ''woe is me!''?' redness (h-16) Or 'darkening.'
Verse Proverbs 23:29. _WHO HATH WO?_] I believe Solomon refers here to the natural effects of drunkenness. And perhaps אוי _oi_, which we translate _wo_, and אבוי _aboi_, which we translate _sorrow_,...
Another continuous exhortation rather than a collection of maxims. Proverbs 23:16 The teacher rejoices when the disciple’s heart Proverbs 23:15 receives wisdom, and yet more when his lips can utter...
CHAPTER 23 INSTRUCTIONS CONTINUED The opening proverbs of this chapter treat of self-restraint in curbing the appetite and give manners to be observed in the presence of a superior. Warnings against r...
It is possible to take these three verses together as a warning against treachery lurking in the dainties of a royal table. In that case, in Proverbs 23:1 we should render consider diligently what (_m...
_woe … sorrow_ Lit. OH!… ALAS! _babbling_ Rather, CONTENTIONS, as the same Heb. word is rendered in Proverbs 18:19; the _quarrelsomeness_of the man in drink, leading to _pugnacity_, and so to "wounds...
TEXT Proverbs 23:24-35 24. The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him. 25. Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that...
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? WHO HATH SORROW? - Hebrew, aboi; an interjection of sorrow arising...
1. RV 'him that is before thee.' Do not excite his contempt....
'Complaining'—not BABBLING—arises amongst boon companions. REDNESS OF EYES] is due to dissipation....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 23 V1 When a ruler invites you for a meal, be careful! Think, before you eat!...
The writer points out a group of people. They are sad. They argue. They cry. Perhaps we suppose that a terrible event has happened....
WOUNDS WITHOUT CAUSE? — Which might have been avoided, and which serve no good end. REDNESS OF EYES? — Rather, _dimness. _...
לְ מִ֨י אֹ֥וי לְ מִ֪י אֲבֹ֡וי לְ...
CHAPTER 24 EDUCATION: THE PARENT'S THOUGHT OF THE CHILD "Train up a child according to his way, and even when he is old he will not depart from it."- Proverbs 22:6 "Withhold not correction from the...
At the seventeenth verse of the previous chapter the section of the Book begins in which the method is slightly changed. While the teaching is still proverbial, it takes the form of longer discourses...
CHAPTER XXIII. _ Whose father. St. Jerome has read ab avi, instead of abo, (Calmet) which is an interjection, (Bochart) alas! or it means, "trouble." Septuagint, "drunkenness," (Chaldean; Calmet) or...
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall...
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...
WHO HATH WOE?.... In this world and in the other, in body and soul; diseases of body, distress of mind, waste of substance, and all manner of evils and calamities; if any man has these, the drunkard h...
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? Ver. 29. _Who hath woe? who hath sorrow?_] Whoredom is usually ushered...
_Who hath wo?_ From the sin of lewdness, he proceeds to that of drunkenness, which frequently accompanies it. As if he had said, If thou intendest to avoid such filthy practices, avoid intemperance; t...
V. 29. WHO HATH WOE? WHO HATH SORROW, or grief? The Hebrew notes the moaning by giving the sighs Ah! and Alas! WHO HATH CONTENTIONS? being most easily involved in quarrels. WHO HATH BABBLING? said of...
From the sin of lust he proceeds to that of drunkenness, which doth frequently accompany it. BABBLING the sin of much and impertinent talking; or, _tumultuous noise or clamour_, which is usual among d...
Proverbs 23:29 woe H188 sorrow H17 contentions H4079 (H8675) H4066 complaints H7879 wounds H6482 cause H2600 redne
CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: The indulgence of the appetites is a sin that easily besets us. We should apprehend ourselves to be in danger when...
Proverbs 23:1. _When thou sittest to eat with a ruler,_ and hast a princely feast before thee of meats and wines, _put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite._ How many have stained...
_They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine._ THE WOES OF THE DRUNKARD The ugly sketch given here should be enough to warn all young people against tampering with a vice which...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 23:30. MIXED WINE—_i.e._, wine mixed with strong spices. PROVERBS 23:31. WHEN IT GIVETH HIS COLOUR, etc., literally, “When it showeth its eye.” This may refer to its _bright...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 23:1 A hexastich closely connected with the last verse of the preceding chapter, as if the warning was addressed to the man of skill whom his talents had made the guest of kings....
Now the next three verses are coupled together. When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: And put a knife to your throat, if you be a man given to appetite. Be not de...
1 Kings 20:16; 1 Samuel 25:36; 1 Samuel 25:37; 2 Samuel 13:28;...