Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Proverbs 21:7
Robbery - Probably the “violence” which the wicked practice.
Shall destroy them - More literally, carries them away.
Robbery - Probably the “violence” which the wicked practice.
Shall destroy them - More literally, carries them away.
Verse Proverbs 21:7. _THE ROBBERY OF THE WICKED_] The wicked shall be _terrified_ and _ruined_ by the means they use to aggrandize themselves. And as they refuse to do judgment, they shall have judgme...
CHAPTER 21 PERSONAL INSTRUCTIONS AS TO LIFE AND CONDUCT In the proverbs of this chapter the Lord is mentioned five times. “The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: He turne...
PROVERBS 21:1. WATERCOURSES: not the natural brooks and wadys of Palestine, but the artificial irrigation canals of Egypt or Babylonia, which could be diverted in any direction at will. Proverbs 21:4....
ROBBERY. rapacity. Illustrations: the princes of Judah (Isaiah 1:23; Isaiah 1:24); the Jews (Jeremiah 7:9; Jeremiah 7:15;...
_robbery_ Rather, VIOLENCE. _destroy them_ Rather, SWEEP THEM UP, or CATCH THEM, as fishes, for example, in a net. Comp. Habakkuk 1:15, where the same Heb. word is used....
THE ROBBERY OF THE WICKED SHALL DESTROY THEM— _The ruin_ or _desolation of the wicked shall affright them_ (they shall be desolated, ruined, ravaged, and terrified); _because they would not follow jus...
CHAPTER 21 TEXT Proverbs 21:1-10 1. The king's heart is in the hand of Jehovah as the water courses: He turneth it whithersoever he will. 2. Every way of a man is right in his own eyes; But Jeho...
The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment. THE ROBBERY OF (I:E., PERPETRATED BY) THE WICKED SHALL DESTROY THEM, [OR ELSE SHALL MAKE THEM TO FEAR: FROM guwr (H...
1. The 'watercourses' (RV) are the artificial irrigation channels of Egypt and Babylon (Isaiah 58:11)....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 21 V1 A king is like a canal that God controls. God leads the king in the way that God decides....
Many evil people love to be cruel. They use cruelty to get money. They use cruelty to control other people. But evil people will also suffer in the end. Evil people will receive a severe punishment....
THE ROBBERY OF THE WICKED. — Or, _their violence._ See above on Proverbs 1:19. (Comp. Psalms 9:15.)...
שֹׁד ־רְשָׁעִ֥ים יְגֹורֵ֑ם כִּ֥י מֵ֝אֲנ֗וּ לַ...
CHAPTER 22 WINE "He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: He that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich."- Proverbs 21:17 THE Septuagint translation has an interesting addition to the proverb in...
Verse Proverbs 21:4. The "lamp" of a man's life is his spirit. Where that is exalted and manifests itself in the high look and the proud heart, there is sin. All of which is to say that for a man to f...
The (d) robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment. (d) He means this chiefly of judges and princes who leave that calling, to which God has called them, and impover...
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts. To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice. An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowi...
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...
THE ROBBERY OF THE WICKED SHALL DESTROY THEM,.... Or cut them, so Ben Melech: dissect or "saw" s them; cut them to the heart; that is, when the sins they have been guilty of, in robbing God of his due...
The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment. Ver. 7. _The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them._] Heb., Shall saw them: that is, shall bring upon them exquisi...
_The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them_ The injury which they do to others shall, either by God or men, be returned upon their own heads; _because they refuse to do judgment_ They wilfully and...
V. 7. THE ROBBERY OF THE WICKED, the violence which they try to exert in working harm to others, SHALL DESTROY THEM, they are swept away as the result of their own wickedness, BECAUSE THEY REFUSE TO D...
DESTROY THEM: _ Heb._ saw them, or, dwell with them...
THE ROBBERY OF THE WICKED SHALL DESTROY THEM; the injury which they do to others shall either by God or men be returned upon their own heads. They refuse to do judgment; they wilfully and obstinately...
Proverbs 21:7 violence H7701 wicked H7563 destroy H1641 (H8799) refuse H3985 (H8765) do H6213 (H8800) justice...
CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Those who follow after righteousness, shall find righteousness, honor and life. KEY WORD: Counsel (Proverbs 20:5). STRONG VERSES: P...
Proverbs 21:1. _The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord; as the rivers of water, he turneth it whithersoever he will._ The allusion is probably to the water-meads and the ditches in the corn field...
_The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity._ DISHONESTY I. The evil of dishonesty. 1. A breach of the law of God. 2. An invasion of the Divine right of property. 3. An encouragement...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 21:5. THOUGHTS, rather the _counsels_, the _calculatings_. PROVERBS 21:6. VANITY TOSSED TO AND FRO. Rather _a fleeting breath_. The Hebrew word _hebel_, here translated van...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 21:1 THE KING'S HEART IS IN THE HAND OF THE LORD, AS THE RIVERS OF WATER. We are to think of the little channels used for irrigation. As these are altogether under the gardener's...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Proverbs 21:1-31. Proverbs 21:1-31, Solomon declares: The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will (Prov...
Ephesians 5:6; Ezekiel 18:18; Ezekiel 22:13; Ezekiel 22:14; Isaiah 1