Stress is to be laid on the uselessness of the “broken tooth” and the “foot out of joint,” or tottering, rather than on the pain connected with them. The King James Version loses the emphasis and poin...
IV. THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON COLLECTED BY THE MEN OF HEZEKIAH CHAPTER 25 Here begin the proverbs which the good king Hezekiah, under the guidance of the Spirit of God, added to this book. “This title...
FIRST DIVISION. In general character this division shows a resemblance to the Sayings of the Wise, containing a number of quatrains and synthetic couplets, and but few antithetic couplets. PROVERBS...
UNFAITHFUL. treacherous. Hebrew. _bagad._ See note on "transgressors" (Proverbs 11:3). FOOT OUT OF JOINT. a tottering foot. Illustrations: Micah (Judges 18:20); Ben-hadad (2 Kings 8:8;...
CONFIDENCE IN AN UNFAITHFUL MAN— Houbigant renders this verse, _As a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint, is the protection of a wicked man in calamity; he will even take away the garment in cold we...
TEXT Proverbs 25:11-19 11. A word fitly spoken Is like applies of gold in network of silver. 12. As an ear-ring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, So is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear....
Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint. CONFIDENCE IN AN UNFAITHFUL MAN IN TIME OF TROUBLE (IS LIKE) A BROKEN TOOTH - which has its place a...
COURTS. QUARRELS 1-7. relate to kings and courts....
A bad tooth causes pain. And it continues to cause pain. A fool is an evil man who hates wisdom. You cannot trust this evil man. He will not help you when you are in trouble. Instead, he will cause yo...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 25 MORE OF SOLOMON’S PROVERBS (WISE WORDS) (PROVERBS 25:1 TO PROVERBS 29:27)...
CHAPTER 26 THE KING "It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter. The heaven for height and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings is unsearchable...
SELF-CONTROL AND KINDLINESS Proverbs 25:15-28 In this paragraph we have good advice as to our dealings with the varied characters with whom we are forced into daily contact. Here is a man hard as a b...
We now come to the second collection of the proverbs of Solomon. These, as the title specifically declares, constitute a posthumous collection gathered in the days of Hezekiah. Speaking generally, the...
Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee. A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow. Confidence i...
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...
CONFIDENCE IN AN UNFAITHFUL MAN IN TIME OF TROUBLE,.... It is not good to put confidence in any man, not in princes, nor in the best of men; much less in an unfaithful, prevaricating, and treacherous...
Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble [is like] a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint. Ver. 19. _Confidence in an unfaithful man, &c._] In a prevaricator, a covenant breaker, a perfidi...
_Confidence in an unfaithful man_, &c. “As a broken tooth, or leg out of joint, not only fails a man when he comes to use them, but likewise puts him into pain; so doth a faithless person serve them t...
Confidence in an unfaithful man, credulous reliance upon a false person, IN TIME OF TROUBLE, when one is in need of a trustworthy friend, IS LIKE A BROKEN TOOTH AND A FOOT OUT OF JOINT, worthless as t...
TRUE WISDOM THE HIGHEST GOOD OF KINGS AND SUBJECTS....
In This CHAPTER, forming the first section, necessarily affirms the basic principles of true unity, which is absolutely essential to recovery. For departure is the very breeding-ground of division, -...
It is not only deceitful, but hurtful, as a broken tooth though it make show of helping, yet is not only unhelpful to a man for chewing his meat, but also troublesome and painful; and as a foot out of...
Proverbs 25:19 Confidence H4009 unfaithful H898 (H8802) time H3117 trouble H6869 bad H7465 tooth H8127 foot H7272
CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, Hezekiah. CONCLUSION: (Principal lesson, Proverbs 25:21; Proverbs 25:22.) The way to turn an enemy into a friend is to act friendly towa...
Proverbs 25:1. _These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah copied out._ Solomon wrote three thousand proverbs, and a thousand and five songs. 1 Kings 4:32. The supplement to the boo...
_Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint._ MAN TRUSTING IN MAN This is sometimes a great evil. To trust in man and disregard God, or to rep...
_Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour’s house._ BAD NEIGHBOURS Here are four kinds. I. The intrusive. It is pleasant to be visited by a neighbour whose interest is genuine. Two evils accrue to thos...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 25:1 Hezekiah’s Collection of Solomonic Proverbs 1:1. The present form of the book of...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 25:19. FOOT OUT OF JOINT. Rather “_An unsteady foot_.” PROVERBS 25:20. NITRE. “_Not the substance we now understand by nitre—i.e., nitrate of potassa (saltpetre), but the na...
EXPOSITION VERSE 1-29:27 PART VI. SECOND GREAT COLLECTION OF SOLOMONIC PROVERBS, gathered by "the men of Hezekiah," in which wisdom is set forth as the greatest blessing to the king and his subjects...
Now in chapter 25. These proverbs were gathered by Hezekiah when he became king, and they were added to the books of proverbs by Hezekiah's scribes. During the period of Hezekiah's reign, it was a per...
2 Chronicles 28:20; 2 Chronicles 28:21; 2 Timothy 4:16; Ezekiel 29:6;...