Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Proverbs 10:23
As the fool finds his sport in doing mischief, so the man of understanding finds in wisdom his truest refreshment and delight.
As the fool finds his sport in doing mischief, so the man of understanding finds in wisdom his truest refreshment and delight.
Verse Proverbs 10:23. IT IS _A SPORT TO A FOOL TO DO MISCHIEF_] What a millstone weight of iniquity hangs about the necks of most of the _jesters, facetious_ and _witty_ people! "How many lies do they...
II. THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON: CHAPTER S 10--19:19 Beginning with the tenth chapter we have the collection of proverbs given by inspiration through Solomon. In this section the personal address, “My son...
PROVERBS 10:2 (_cf._ Psalms 3:7). RIGHTEOUSNESS: the growth of the conception of righteousness is an important subject. As in the Pss., there is a specific class the righteous opposed to the wicked. T...
BUT. Supply Figure of speech _Ellipsis_ (App-6), "But [to exercise] wisdom [is as sport] to. man of understanding". MAN. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14. UNDERSTANDING... WISDOM. See note on Proverbs 1:2....
_hath wisdom_ Rather, AND so is WISDOM (a sport or pastime) TO A MAN OF UNDERSTANDING. She imparts to him her own joy, or exultation. Comp. Proverbs 8:30, where the Heb. word is the same. See John 15:...
BUT A MAN OF UNDERSTANDING HATH WISDOM— _But a prudent man restrains himself: Frenatio adest viro prudenti._ Schultens....
TEXT Proverbs 10:23-32 23. It is as sport to a fool to do wickedness; And so is wisdom to a man of understanding. 24. The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him; And the desire of the righte...
It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom. IT IS AS SPORT TO A FOOL TO DO MISCHIEF: BUT A MAN OF UNDERSTANDING HATH WISDOM - as his "sport." What he knows by u...
10:23 wickedness; (l-11) Or 'to commit infamy.'...
Here we reach the first collection of what were supposed to be Solomon's proverbs. Most of them consist of two lines parallel to each other. The parallelism is one of contrast, or agreement, or explan...
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In this verse, Solomon asks us what we love. A wise person loves wisdom. We might think that wisdom is good. This is not enough. We might think that wisdom is powerful. Many people think these thin...
BUT A MAN OF UNDERSTANDING HATH WISDOM. — Rather, _But wisdom_ (_is sport_)_ to a man of understanding, i.e.,_ one rejoices in mischief, the other (comp. Proverbs 8:30) in wise thoughts and deeds....
כִּ שְׂחֹ֣וק לִ֭ כְסִיל עֲשֹׂ֣ות זִמָּ֑ה וְ֝
CHAPTER 11 WEALTH "Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death." Proverbs 10:2 "O'er weening statesmen have full long relied On fleets and armies and external w...
THE BLESSING OF THE LORD MAKETH RICH Proverbs 10:17-32 Let us specially avoid talking too much. Silence is golden. See Proverbs 10:19. Yet _the tongue of the just is as choice silver and the lips of...
Here begin the proverbs proper. In this collection they are antithetical, They present a sharp contrast between wisdom and folly in the outworking of such in practical life. Seeing that this is indeed...
_Man. He is enabled to see the evil of sin, and to avoid it, Job xv. 16._...
The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin. He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth. He that hideth hatred with lying li...
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...
[IT IS] AS SPORT TO A FOOL TO DO MISCHIEF,.... To do any injury to the persons and properties of men; which shows a most wicked and malicious spirit, a very depraved nature indeed: or rather "to commi...
Proverbs 10:23 [It is] as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom. Ver. 23. _It is a sport to a fool to do mischief._] He is then merriest when he hath the devil for hi...
_It is as sport to a fool to do mischief_ Or, as some render it, _to work wickedness;_ yea, great and premeditated wickedness, as the word here used, זמה, properly signifies: he doth it with ease and...
V. 23. IT IS AS SPORT TO A FOOL TO DO MISCHIEF, that is, the practice of any form of iniquity is his delight, it agrees with his perverted sense of humor; BUT A MAN OF UNDERSTANDING HATH WISDOM, that...
1 The comfort of parents much depends on their children; and this suggests to both, motives to their duties. Proverbs 10:2; Proverbs 10:3. Though the righteous may be poor, the Lord will not suffer h...
AS SPORT; he doth it with ease and delight, and without any shame, or remorse, or fear. TO DO MISCHIEF or, as others, _to work wickedness_; yea, great and premeditated wickedness, as the Hebrew word p...
Proverbs 10:23 do H6213 (H8800) evil H2154 sport H7814 fool H3684 man H376 understanding H8394 wisdom H2451...
A COLLECTION OF SOLOMON'S PROVERBS (PROVERBS 10:1 TO PROVERBS 29:27). Solomon's presentation of The Book of Proverbs has followed the pattern of much Wisdom literature. This commenced with the initial...
THE BLESSING OF YHWH, WHICH COMES AS A RESULT OF THE FEAR OF YHWH, MAKES RICH WITHOUT THE BAD CONSEQUENCES THAT CAN RESULT FROM RICHES, AND PRODUCES TRUE JOY, WHILST THE FOOL SUFFERS THE WORST POSSIBL...
A COLLECTION OF SOLOMON'S PROVERBS (PROVERBS 10:1 TO PROVERBS 29:27). Solomon's presentation of The Book of Proverbs has followed the pattern of much Wisdom literature. This commenced with the initial...
CONTENTS: The blessedness of the ways of righteousness and the folly of the ways of wickedness. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: The head of the just man will be crowned with the blessings both...
Proverbs 10:1. _The Proverbs of Solomon._ The nine preseding Chapter s may be regarded as a vestibule to the temple. Wisdom has been personified, and folly thrown into the darker shades. We have had a...
_It is as sport to a fool to do mischief._ MORAL PHASES OF LIFE Human life has its spiritual and moral as well as its material and intellectual side. Five things in these verses of great moral signi...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 10:23. Second clause, “to a man of understanding wisdom is an enjoyment” _(Zöckler)_. _MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 10:23_ A TOUCHSTONE OF CHARACTER The painter uses the da...
EXPOSITION VERSE 1-22:16 PART III. FIRST GREAT COLLECTION (375) OF SOLOMONIC PROVERBS. VERSE 1-12:28 First section. The sections are noted by their commencing usually with the words, "a wise son....
Now in chapter 10 we have individual proverbs. Most of these individual proverbs are in contrast, where they are contrasting the wise with the foolish, or the wicked with the righteous. Or the diligen...