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CHAPTER XXIV
_Do not be envious. Of the house wisely built. Counsel necessary_
_in war. Save life when thou canst. Of honey and the honey-comb._
_Of the just that falleth seven times. We should not...
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A lesson given before, now combined with another. True followers after
wisdom will admit neither envy of evil on the one hand, nor admiration
or fellowship with it on the other....
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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...
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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...
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BE NOT THOU ENVIOUS. Do not get excited. Compare Proverbs 23:17....
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_Be not thou envious_ Comp. Proverbs 23:17....
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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...
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Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.
EVIL MEN, NEITHER DESIRE TO BE WITH THEM - i:e., to share in their
ways. ; shows the evil results of their ways, which ought t...
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5. Read, 'A wise man is better than a warrior, and a man of knowledge
than a man of strength.'...
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 24
V1 Do not be jealous of evil men.
Do not try to meet them.
V2
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You should not join a group of evil people. Their secret plans are
cruel. And they plot trouble with their conversations. You should not
be jealous of these people. You do not want to suffer their
pun...
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אַל ־תְּ֭קַנֵּא בְּ אַנְשֵׁ֣י רָעָ֑ה
וְ אַל
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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...
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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...
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_Like. Be not allured by their prosperity to imitate them, Psalm
xxxvi. 1._...
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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...
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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...
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BE NOT THOU ENVIOUS AGAINST EVIL MEN,.... Or, "men of evil" b. Such
who are addicted to evil, and given up to it, whose principles and
practices are bad; such as are before described in the preceding...
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Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.
Ver. 1. _Be not thou envious against evil men._] Heb., Men of evil -
such as are set upon sin; as are like Caracalla, _qui nihil...
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_Be not thou envious_, &c. The proneness of good men, especially while
they are weak, and only in the beginnings of their course of piety and
virtue, to be dejected at the prosperity of the ungodly, a...
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V. 1. BE NOT THOU ENVIOUS AGAINST EVIL MEN, desiring their company on
account of their apparent prosperity and good fortune, NEITHER DESIRE
TO BE WITH THEM, to be one of their number, to he accepted i...
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PROVERBS CHAPTER 24 Their company or manner of life....
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Proverbs 24:1 envious H7065 (H8762) evil H7451 men H582 desire H183
(H8691)
not - Prover
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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...
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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
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_Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with
them._
EVIL MEN NOT TO BE ENVIED
The first verse of this chapter is very naturally connected with the
close of the chapter preceding....
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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,...
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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....
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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...
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Galatians 5:19; Genesis 13:10; Genesis 19:1; James 4:5; James 4:6;...