Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Proverbs 24:28
Deceive not with thy lips - Better, wilt thou deceive with thy lips?
Deceive not with thy lips - Better, wilt thou deceive with thy lips?
Verse Proverbs 24:28. _BE NOT A WITNESS_] Do not be forward to offer thyself to bear testimony against a neighbour, in a matter which may prejudice him, where the essential claims of justice do not re...
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...
SECOND DIVISION, PROVERBS 24:23. This section constitutes the second division of the Sayings of the Wise, as Proverbs 24:23 a indicates. It contains a short collection of sayings varying in form and...
DECEIVE. Hebrew. _pathah._ See note on Proverbs 11:18....
_deceive not_ Lit. and perhaps more forcibly, AND WOULDEST THOU DECEIVE WITH THY LIPS?...
TEXT Proverbs 24:23-34 23. These also are sayings of the wise. To have respect of persons in judgment is not good. 24. He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous, Peoples shall curse him,...
Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips. BE NOT A WITNESS AGAINST THY NEIGHBOUR WITHOUT CAUSE - falsely, or even frivolously, without sure ground for thy a...
5. Read, 'A wise man is better than a warrior, and a man of knowledge than a man of strength.'...
This is in opposition to the ancient law of retaliation (Exodus 21:23; Leviticus 24:17; Deuteronomy 19:21)....
If you speak false evidence against your neighbour, your attitudes are wrong. You should not be opposing your neighbour without a proper reason. If your neighbour is guilty, then God will punish your...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 24 V1 Do not be jealous of evil men. Do not try to meet them. V2
WITHOUT CAUSE — _i.e._, do not mention thy neighbour’s faults unless for some good reason, not for malice or love of gossip....
אַל ־תְּהִ֣י עֵד ־חִנָּ֣ם בְּ רֵעֶ֑ךָ וַ֝
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...
_Cause, and necessity. Septuagint, "be not a false witness against thy fellow-citizen."_...
Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house. Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips. Say not, I wi...
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...
BE NOT A WITNESS AGAINST THY NEIGHBOUR WITHOUT CAUSE,.... Unless forced unto it, except there is some urgent reason for it; not upon any trivial account, or in any frivolous matter; never appear forwa...
Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive [not] with thy lips. Ver. 28. _Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause._] That is, Without calling, being not thereunto...
_Be not witness against thy neighbour_ Either in judgment or in private conversation; _without cause_ Rashly or falsely, without just and sufficient cause; _and deceive not with thy lips_ Neither thy...
V. 28. BE NOT A WITNESS AGAINST THY NEIGHBOR WITHOUT CAUSE, without reason and need, out of pure animosity; AND DECEIVE NOT WITH THY LIPS, rather in the form of a question, "And shouldest thou practic...
BE NOT A WITNESS AGAINST THY NEIGHBOUR, either in judgment or in private conversation, without cause; rashly or falsely, without just and sufficient cause. DECEIVE NOT neither thy neighbour, to whom t...
Proverbs 24:28 witness H5707 neighbor H7453 cause H2600 deceive H6601 (H8765) lips H8193 not -...
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
_Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause._ THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF FALSE WITNESS There is nothing more dear and valuable to men than their reputation or good name. It is a mark of an ab...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 24:23 Further Sayings of “the Wise.” (See note on 22:17–24:22.) These sayings are grouped in a parallel fashion, as follows:...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 24:28_ AN UNCALLED-FOR TESTIMONY I. THERE ARE TIMES AND CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH IT IS OUR DUTY TO WITNESS AGAINST OUR NEIGHBOUR. When the interests of right and truth are...
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...
1 Kings 21:9; 1 Samuel 22:10; 1 Samuel 22:9; Colossians 3:9;...