See the margin. The meaning is “Thy joy will be suicidal, the wrath of the righteous Judge will be turned upon thee, as the greater offender, and thou wilt have to bear a worse evil than that which thou exultest in.”
Verse Proverbs 24:18. _AND HE TURN AWAY HIS WRATH FROM HIM._] Wrath is here taken for the effect of wrath, punishment; and the meaning must be as paraphrased above-lest he take the punishment from _h...
CHAPTER 24 INSTRUCTIONS CONTINUED In the final instructions of this chapter we find first a description of the evil men. Their heart studieth destruction; their lips talk mischief. This theme is repea...
PROVERBS 24:7 A. Lit. Wisdom is corals to the fool. RV involves a change m the text, which gives perhaps the best sense that can be made of an obviously corrupt stanza. Proverbs 24:9. thought: the wor...
FROM HIM. Supply Ellipsis, "from him [to thee]"....
_from him_ Some commentators would add, "upon thee"; "et irascatur contra te," Münster. It is better to leave the proverb as it stands, and to supplement its teaching by such proverbs as Proverbs 24:2...
TEXT Proverbs 24:13-22 13. My son, eat thou honey, for it is good; And the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to thy taste: 14. So shalt thou know wisdom to be unto thy soul; If thou ha...
Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him. LEST THE LORD ... TURN, AWAY HIS WRATH FROM HIM - upon thee. The Lord's turning away His wrath from him is virtually...
5. Read, 'A wise man is better than a warrior, and a man of knowledge than a man of strength.'...
SEVEN] an indefinite, but considerable number. The wrath will now fall on you....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 24 V1 Do not be jealous of evil men. Do not try to meet them. V2
When your enemy suffers, perhaps you are glad. But you should not be glad. Instead, you should be cautious. Perhaps your enemy is suffering because God has punished your enemy for his evil actions. Bu...
AND HE TURN AWAY HIS WRATH FROM HIM. — Upon thee as having sinned more deeply than thine enemy in thus rejoicing at his misfortunes. (Comp. Proverbs 17:5.)...
פֶּן ־יִרְאֶ֣ה יְ֭הוָה וְ רַ֣ע בְּ עֵינָ֑יו
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 hi...
Warnings are uttered against envy, against the formation of evil companionships, against excess in passion, against all false exhilaration; and perperpetual attention to wisdom and earnest endeavor to...
Lest the LORD see [it], and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath (f) from him. (f) To be avenged on you....
_From. To punish thee. (Calmet) --- Thus will thy thirst of vengeance be disappointed. (Haydock) --- The Hebrews believed that there was no evil, which was not caused by sin; and this was true in some...
Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place: For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief. Rejoic...
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...
LEST THE LORD SEE [IT], AND IT DISPLEASE HIM,.... Who sees all things, not only external actions, but the heart, and the inward motions of it; and though men may hide the pleasure they feel at the mis...
Lest the LORD see [it], and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him. Ver. 18. _Lest the Lord see it,_] viz., Thy pride and cruelty, as he will, for he is ολοφθαλμος, all eye, and εχει Y...
_Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth_ Namely, into mischief or trouble, as in the former verse; please not thyself in his destruction. This plainly shows that the love of our enemies is a precept of...
V. 18. LEST THE LORD SEE IT AND IT DISPLEASE HIM, as all evidences of malice are hound to do, AND HE TURN AWAY HIS WRATH FROM HIM, that is, from the enemy, His punishment striking the person of malign...
IT DISPLEASE HIM: _ Heb._ it be evil in his eyes...
Understand, _upon thee_, which is implied in the Hebrew phrase, such defects being usual in that concise language, PSALMS 84:11 PROVERBS 19:1, and oft elsewhere. This consideration strikes at the root...
Proverbs 24:18 LORD H3068 see H7200 (H8799) displease H7489 (H8804) H5869 away H7725 (H8689) wrath...
CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: If wicked people prosper, we should not be inclined to do as they do, nor complain of what God does in His provide...
Proverbs 24:1. _Be not envious against evil men._ Similar thoughts occur in Psalms 37:1; Psalms 73; Proverbs 17:1. Why should we envy the wicked? We are all g
_Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth._ REVENGE Johnson makes a distinction between vengeance and revenge. Injuries, he says, are revenged; crimes are avenged. The former is an act of passion, the l...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 24:17 DO NOT REJOICE reflects the heart of God, who has no pleasure in the death of the wicked (see note on Ezek. 33:11)....
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 24:20. REWARD. The same word used in Proverbs 24:14, and in chap. Proverbs 23:18. Its literal meaning is “a hereafter.” Zöckler translates it end in the first two instances,...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 24:1 We return here to the more usual form, the tetrastich. BE NOT THOU ENVIOUS AGAINST EVIL MEN (see on Proverbs 23:17, where a similar warning is given, and comp....
Again, he continues in twenty-four in putting them together in couplets or in phrases. Be not envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. For their heart studies destruction, and their...
Lamentations 4:21; Lamentations 4:22; Zechariah 1:15; Zechariah 1:16...
From him — Understand, upon thee, which is implied in the Hebrew phrase....