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Proverbs 19:1-7
In these verses, Solomon discusses things that are wrong. Many wrong things happen in this world.
In these verses, Solomon discusses things that are wrong. Many wrong things happen in this world.
CHAPTER XIX _The worth of a poor upright man. Riches preserve friends. False_ _witnesses. False friends. A king's wrath. The foolish son. The_ _prudent wife. Slothfulness. Pity for the poor. The fe...
The “perverse” man is the rich fool, as contrasted with the poor man who is upright. Proverbs 19:1 are missing in the Septuagint....
CHAPTER 19:1-19 FURTHER PROVERBS ON PERSONAL INSTRUCTION One may be poor, but walking in integrity, he is far ahead of him who is perverse in his lips and is a fool. Then we find proverbs about frett...
PROVERBS 19. A shrewd turn of sarcasm in Proverbs 19:3 suggests the attitude of practical wisdom towards that questioning of the moral government of the world which we find in Job. PROVERBS 19:1. FOO...
BETTER. See note on Proverbs 8:11. THE POOR. a needy one. Hebrew. _rush._ See note on Proverbs 6:11. Same as in verses: Proverbs 19:7;...
_a fool_ We are left to read in the word _rich_, from the contrast implied by the parallelism: upright poverty is better than perverse folly, by whatever advantages of wealth, of birth, or of rank, it...
BETTER IS THE POOR, &C.— _Better is a poor man who is upright in his way, than a rich man who is perverse in his path._ Houbigant. Thus preserving the antithesis, and following the Syriac....
CHAPTER 19 TEXT Proverbs 19:1-10 1. Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity Than he that is perverse in his lips and is a fool. 2. Also, that the soul be without knowledge is not good;...
Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool. BETTER (IS) THE POOR THAT WALKETH IN HIS INTEGRITY, THAN (HE THAT IS) PERVERSE IN HIS LIPS, A...
1. FOOL] read, 'rich' (Proverbs 28:6)....
XIX. (1) PERVERSE IN HIS LIPS. — One who distorts the truth; translated “froward” in Proverbs 4:24. That a rich man is here intended appears likely from the parallel passage in Proverbs 28:6....
טֹֽוב ־רָ֭שׁ הֹולֵ֣ךְ בְּ תֻמֹּ֑ו מֵ עִקֵּ֥שׁ
CHAPTER 20 HUMAN FREEDOM "The foolishness of man subverteth his way; And his heart fretteth against the Lord."- Proverbs 19:3 THERE is such a valuable expansion and commentary on this proverb in th...
Verse Proverbs 19:7. This is the only case in this first collection of proverbs in which we find three clauses. It is certainly most likely that the third clause is incomplete. Something has been lost...
_Rich, is not in Hebrew, Septuagint, Complutensian, or St. Jerome. (Calmet) --- But as there is not antithesis between a poor man and a fool, it ought to be inserted, as it is in the Syriac, which rea...
Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool. Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinne...
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...
BETTER [IS] THE POOR THAT WALKETH IN HIS INTEGRITY,.... In the uprightness of his heart before God and men; who is sincere in the worship of God, and in the profession of his name, and walks in all th...
Better [is] the poor that walketh in his integrity, than [he that is] perverse in his lips, and is a fool. Ver. 1. _Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity._] That poor but honest man, that...
_Better is the poor_ Hebrew, רשׁ, _a poor man; that walketh in his integrity_ Who is upright in his words and actions; he has a better character, is in a better condition, is more beloved, lives to be...
V. 1. BETTER IS THE POOR THAT WALKETH IN HIS INTEGRITY, in innocence of heart and righteousness of conduct, THAN HE THAT IS PERVERSE IN HIS LIPS, full of malice in his speech, AND IS A FOOL, for his r...
PROVERBS CHAPTER 19 THAT WALKETH IN HIS INTEGRITY; who is upright in his words and actions. THAT IS PERVERSE IN HIS LIPS; that useth to speak wickedly, which proceeds from a wicked heart, and is usual...
Proverbs 19:1 Better H2896 poor H7326 (H8802) walks H1980 (H8802) integrity H8537 perverse H6141 lips H8193 fool...
CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: If we keep God's Word, God's Word will keep us from all things that are really hurtful. Those who despise the ways of His W...
Proverbs 19:1. _Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity,_ in simplicity and honesty of heart, than a fool whose tongue is perverse, and whose body is swoln with corpulency. The contrast of me...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 19:1. Delitzsch translates the last clause, “_Than one with perverse lips, and so a fool_.” _MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 19:1_ I. A REFERENCE TO AN UNEXPLAINED MYSTERY OF H...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 19:1 BETTER IS THE POOR THAT WALKTH IN HIS INTEGRITY. The word for "poor" is, here and in Proverbs 19:7, Proverbs 19:22, _rash, _which signifie
Better is the poor that walks in his integrity [or in honesty], than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool. Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with...
1 Samuel 25:17; 1 Samuel 25:25; Isaiah 59:3; James 2:5; James 2:6;...