Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Proverbs 18:3
With ignominy - Better, “together with baseness comes reproach.” The outer shame follows close upon the inner.
With ignominy - Better, “together with baseness comes reproach.” The outer shame follows close upon the inner.
Verse Proverbs 18:3. _WHEN THE WICKED COMETH, C._] would it not be better to read this verse thus? "When the wicked cometh contempt cometh and with ignominy _cometh_ reproach." A wicked man is despise...
CHAPTER 18 PROVERBS OF PERSONAL INSTRUCTION There is first a warning against separation produced by desire, that is for gratification and pleasure, and not for a righteous purpose. Such a one becomes...
PROVERBS 18:1. MT yields no satisfactory sense. The LXX reads The man who wishes to separate from his friends seeks pretexts, but is always liable to reproach. Frankenberg renders the alienated friend...
THE WICKED. a lawless one. Hebrew. _rasha'._ App-44. IGNOMINY. disgrace, or shame (i.e. outward). REPROACH. reproachfulness....
_with ignominy reproach_ Or, WITH IGNOMINY _cometh_ REPROACH. As shame is inseparable from wickedness, so is reproach from ignominy, i.e. ignominious character and conduct ("a shameful deed," Gesen.;...
WHEN THE WICKED COMETH, &C.— _When the wicked entereth, contempt entereth with him; and with a reproachful man, reproach._ See Schultens. Instead of _ignominy,_ we may read, _turpitude, scandalous beh...
CHAPTER 18 TEXT Proverbs 18:1-12 1. He that separateth himself seeketh his own desire, And rageth against all sound wisdom. 2. A fool hath no delight in understanding, But only that his heart ma...
When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach. WHEN THE WICKED COMETH, THEN COMETH (ALSO) CONTEMPT. When the wicked cometh among wise men, he cometh not to learn bu...
1. Lit. 'One who separates himself seeks desire, quarrels with all wisdom.' This would mean that a solitary recluse follows his own wishes and opposes everything reasonable. But LXX suggests, 'The ali...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 18 V1 An unfriendly man is selfish. He is not sensible. V2 A foo
Often, an evil person hates other people. He hates, because he is evil. He is evil, because he hates. This person will receive both shame and punishment. He will feel shame, when he receives his puni...
WHEN THE WICKED COMETH, THEN COMETH ALSO CONTEMPT. — Comp. the whole burden of Psalms 106, that sorrow and shame follow sin....
בְּֽ בֹוא ־רָ֭שָׁע בָּ֣א גַם ־בּ֑וּז וְֽ
CHAPTER 19 THE EVIL OF ISOLATION "He that separates himself follows after his own desire, but against all sound wisdom he shows his teeth."- Proverbs 18:1 FROM the value of friendship there is a nat...
Verse Proverbs 18:1. The protest of this proverb is against the self-satisfaction which makes a man separate himself from the thoughts and opinions of others. Such a one finally "rages against," or "q...
When the wicked cometh, [then] cometh also (c) contempt, and with ignominy reproach. (c) Meaning, such a one as condemns all others....
_Contemneth both God and man, Luke xviii. 4. Hebrew, "is contemned" in his turn. (Calmet) --- He is like a man abandoned by the physician. (Op. Imp. in Matt. Hom. 40.)_...
A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself. When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach. The words of a man's mouth are as deep w...
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...
WHEN THE WICKED COMETH, [THEN] COMETH ALSO CONTEMPT,.... When he comes into the world, as Aben Ezra; as soon as he is born, he is liable to contempt, being born in sin; but this is true of all: rather...
When the wicked cometh, [then] cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach. Ver. 3. _When the wicked cometh, then cometh contempt._] It comes into the world with him, so the Hebrew doctors expou...
_When the wicked cometh_ Into any place or company; _then cometh also contempt_ Either, 1st, He is justly contemned by those who converse with him: or rather, 2d, He despiseth and scorneth all instruc...
V. 3. WHEN THE WICKED COMETH, THEN COMETH ALSO CONTEMPT, for such a person considers himself above submission to others and therefore is lacking in both reverence and forbearance, AND WITH IGNOMINY RE...
WHEN THE WICKED COMETH into any place or company, THEN COMETH ALSO CONTEMPT; either, 1. Passively; he is justly contemned and reproached by those who converse with him. Or rather, 2. Actively; he des...
Proverbs 18:3 wicked H7563 comes H935 (H8800) contempt H937 comes H935 (H8804) dishonor H7036 reproach H2781...
THE WORDS OF THE WISE ARE A WELLSPRING OF WISDOM, BUT A FOOL'S WORDS RESULT IN MISERY FOR HIM, AND FINALLY BRING ABOUT HIS RUIN (PROVERBS 18:3). As with the previous subsection, this subsection majors...
CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The only zone of safety is the name of the Lord which is the strong tower in which one may find rest and be fortified again...
Proverbs 18:1. _Through desire a man having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom._ יתגלע _yithgalâ;_ this word occurs but thrice, and only in the book of Proverbs; viz. here, a...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 18:3. IGNOMINY, rather, “_shameful deeds_.” _MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 18:3_ This verse also, as will be seen from a reference to the Critical Notes, and also from the C...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 18:1 This is a difficult verse, and has obtained various interpretations. The Authorized Version gives, THROUGH DESIRE A MAN, HAVING SEPARATED HIMSELF, SEEKETH AND INTERMEDDLETH W...
Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeks and intermeddleth with all wisdom. A fool has no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself. When the wicked comes, then com...
1 Peter 4:14; 1 Peter 4:4; 1 Samuel 20:30; Matthew 27:39; Nehemiah 4:4
Cometh — Into any place or company. Contempt — He despiseth all instruction and reproof. Reproach — And he shews his contempt by ignominious and reproachful expressions....