Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Proverbs 17:16
More literally: Why is there a price in the hand of a fool? Is it to get wisdom when he has no heart for it? No money will avail without the understanding heart.
More literally: Why is there a price in the hand of a fool? Is it to get wisdom when he has no heart for it? No money will avail without the understanding heart.
CHAPTER 17 DIVERSE PROVERBS Of the twenty-eight proverbs found in this chapter we point out but a few. “The fining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold; but the LORD trieth the hearts” (Proverbs...
PROVERBS 17. Fresh points are the rise of the able and clever slave to a place in the family (Proverbs 17:2), the practice of bribes (Proverbs 17:8; Proverbs 17:23), the value of adversity as a test o...
WHEREFORE IS THERE. PRICE, &C.. Why is this ready money in the hand of. fool to get wisdom when he has no sense? Illustrations: Israel (2 Chronicles 30:10); the Jews (Luke 4:28); Herod Antipas (Luke 2...
_heart_ i.e. UNDERSTANDING, R.V.; see Proverbs 15:32, note. We might almost render, CAPACITY. Wisdom cannot be bought for a price: it can only be assimilated by a wise, or wisdom-loving heart. Its wor...
WHEREFORE IS THERE A PRICE, &C.— _What would it profit a fool to have that wherewith he might purchase wisdom, whilst he hath no heart?_ Houbigant. No discretion to discern the worth of wisdom, no des...
TEXT Proverbs 17:11-19 11. An evil man seeketh only rebellion; Therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him. 12. Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, Rather than a fool in his fo...
Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it? WHEREFORE (IS THERE) A PRICE (LITERALLY, THIS PRICE: DEMONSTRATIVELY) IN THE HAND OF A FOOL TO GET WIS...
17:16 sense? (e-21) Strictly, 'void of heart,' as ch. 15.21. see ch. 6.32, &c....
1. Lit. 'the sacrifices of strife.' There would be no pleasure in the festal meal which followed a sacrifice (Proverbs 7:14) if it was accompanied with a quarrel. 'A little with quiet is the only diet...
Money cannot buy it if the mind is indisposed to it....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 17 V1 One man eats dry bread in a calm and quiet place. But that man’s meal is better than the food at a party where there are arguments....
Solomon uses humour here. By ‘fool’, he means a person who hates wisdom. The fool wastes his money. He might buy ordinary things, or even sensible things. However, Solomon says that the fool wastes h...
WHEREFORE IS THERE A PRICE... — He will still remain a fool, though he has paid high for instruction, if he has no capacity for taking it in....
לָמָּה ־זֶּ֣ה מְחִ֣יר בְּ יַד ־כְּסִ֑יל לִ
CHAPTER 18 FRIENDSHIP "A friend loveth at all times, and as a brother is born for adversity."- Proverbs 17:17 This rendering, based upon the margin of the R.V, yields a much better sense than the lo...
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 h...
Verse Proverbs 17:3. Two important thoughts are suggested by this proverb. First, that the heart will yield to no force other than that of God. Dross in metal may be discovered and expurged by fire, b...
Why [is there] a (g) price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing [he hath] no heart [to it]? (g) What good does it do the wicked to be rich, seeing he does not set his mind to wisdom?...
_He, &c., is not here in Hebrew, though it be equivalently (ver. 19.) where the Septuagint are silent. (Calmet)_...
The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts. A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue. Whoso mocketh the poor repro...
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...
WHEREFORE [IS THERE] A PRICE IN THE HAND OF A FOOL TO GET WISDOM,.... Natural wisdom and knowledge. By this "price" may be meant money, riches, worldly substance, of which a foolish man is possessed;...
Wherefore [is there] a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing [he hath] no heart [to it]? Ver. 16. _Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool? &c._] Wealth without wit is ill bestow...
_Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool_, &c. The Hebrew is literally, _Wherefore is this? A price in the hand of a fool to procure wisdom, and not a heart?_ The question implies, that the _...
V. 16. WHEREFORE IS THERE A PRICE IN THE HAND OF A FOOL TO GET WISDOM, believing that money will purchase knowledge or earthly gold, understanding, SEEING HE HATH NO HEART TO IT? this fact being the r...
WHEREFORE? the question implies that it is unworthily placed, and that it is to no purpose or benefit of the possessor. A PRICE; possessions or riches, as all the ancient translators render it, of whi...
Proverbs 17:16 hand H3027 fool H3684 purchase H7069 (H8800) price H4242 wisdom H2451 heart H3820 a price -...
THE WAYS OF THE FOOL (PROVERBS 17:16). The main emphasis in this subsection is on the ways of the fool (Proverbs 17:16; Proverbs 17:21), the man void of mind (heart) ...
THE FOLLIES OF THE FOOL (PROVERBS 17:8). The previous subsection ended with reference to the nabal (fool), and this now leads on to consideration of the activities of fools (kesil) (Proverbs 17:21 vi...
CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: About the most satisfactory substitute for wisdom is silence. Discretion of speech is better than fluency of speech. KEY W...
Proverbs 17:1. _Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith._ See Proverbs 15:17. Proverbs 17:3. _The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace_ (or crucible) _for gold._ Silver ores in Mexico are...
_Wherefore is there a price in the hand of fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?_ OPPORTUNITIES OF YOUTH The term “fool” is not used in the modern sense of a man without reason; but rath...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 17:9 These verses include two collections of proverbs (vv. Proverbs 17:9 and vv. Pro
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 17:16_ NEGLECTED OPPORTUNITIES I. ONE OF THE USES WHICH OUGHT TO BE MADE OF WEALTH. Men ought to use it to “get wisdom.” It is obvious that a wealthy man has more opportu...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 17:1 (Comp, Proverbs 15:16, Proverbs 15:17; Proverbs 16:8.) Better
Better is a dry morsel, with quietness, than a house full of sacrifices with strife (Proverbs 17:1). Now the house full of sacrifices refer to the sacrifices. It's, if in that economy the of the Judai...
2 Corinthians 6:1; Acts 13:46; Acts 28:26; Acts 28:27; Deuteronomy 5:
A price — Opportunities and abilities of getting it. No heart — Neither discretion to discern the worth of wisdom, nor any sincere desire to get it....