Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Proverbs 27:11
The voice of the teacher to his true disciple. He pleads with him that the uprightness of the scholar will be the truest answer to all attacks on the character or teaching of the master.
The voice of the teacher to his true disciple. He pleads with him that the uprightness of the scholar will be the truest answer to all attacks on the character or teaching of the master.
V. INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN TO SOLOMON In the three Chapter s which follow 27-29 we find the change we have noticed before. These proverbs are addressed to a person and the phrases “My son” and the persona...
A collection of aphorisms on various subjects. PROVERBS 27:3. _cf._ Sir_22:14 f. The comparison suggests that vexation is out of place. It is the fool that is a bore, not his anger. Proverbs 27:4 a...
MY SON. Marking the Structure (p. 899), as being the Words of the Wise, _for_ Solomon....
TEXT Proverbs 27:10-18 10. Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; And go not to thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: Better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far...
My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me. MY SON, BE WISE ... THAT I MAY ANSWER HIM THAT REPROACHETH ME - as though my son were a fool, or one badly reared...
SUNDRY OBSERVATIONS. AGRICULTURE 4. Envy] a husband's jealousy is meant (Song of Solomon 8:6). 5, 6. Men 'hide' (RV) love when they refrain from telling a friend his faults. An enemy will be 'profus...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 27 V1 Do not become proud about your plans for tomorrow. You do not know what will happen tomorrow....
A father is responsible for his son’s good behaviour. If the boy develops well, his character is proof of the father’s success. V12 When a wise man sees danger, he stays in a safe place. But simple...
MY SON. — The address of a father to his son, or master to pupil. THAT I MAY ANSWER HIM THAT REPROACHETH ME for having brought you up badly when he sees you ignorant or ill-behaved. So Christians are...
חֲכַ֣ם בְּ֭נִי וְ שַׂמַּ֣ח לִבִּ֑י וְ אָשִׁ֖י
CHAPTER 28 LIVING DAY BY DAY "Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day will bring forth."- Proverbs 27:1 "The grave and destruction are never satisfied; and the eyes of men ar...
“HEARTY COUNSEL” Proverbs 27:1-22 The keyword in this paragraph is _friends_, Proverbs 27:6; Proverbs 27:9-10; Proverbs 27:14; Proverbs 27:17; Proverbs 19:1-29. Friends, according to the original se...
Verse Proverbs 27:5. This proverb takes for granted the need for rebuke, and by 'love that is hidden" is meant a love which fails to rebuke. Verse Proverbs 27:14. There is nothing more calculated to...
_Thou. Hebrew, Complutensian, and Sixtus V, "I may," &c. Septuagint, "and cast reproaches from thee."_...
My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me. A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished. Take his garment tha...
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...
MY SON, BE WISE, AND MAKE MY HEART GLAD,.... That is, show thyself to be a wise man by thy words and actions; endeavour to get a good share of wisdom and knowledge, and make a good use of it, and that...
My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me. Ver. 11. _My son, be wise, and make my heart glad._] _See Trapp on "_ Pro 10:1 _"_...
My son, be wise and make my heart glad, the inspired author again addressing all his readers in the tone of fatherly admonition, THAT I MAY ANSWER HIM THAT REPROACHETH ME, since the wise behavior of a...
WISDOM AND HUMILITY GO HAND IN HAND...
HERE THE SUBJECT matter is completely changed. No longer is the outside opposition of the enemy found, but any dangers now considered are those arising from the state of our own hearts. This third sec...
For being the father of a wicked son, as if I had either deserved him as a curse from God, or made him so by my example, or by the neglect of his education. See EZEKIEL 16:44 1 THESSALONIANS 3:4....
Proverbs 27:11 son H1121 wise H2449 (H8798) heart H3820 glad H8055 (H8761) answer H7725 (H8686)...
Proverbs 27:1. _Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth._ Let us never boast of future days and years, or what we mean to do when we come to any age, or what sh...
CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions. CHARACTERS: Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: (Principal lesson.) Use the present time with diligence and wisdom and presume not upon tomorrow. We should speak of th...
Proverbs 27:2. _Let another man praise thee._ A man is sometimes compelled to speak of himself. But modesty often prefers speaking in the third person; as St. John, who says, “that disciple whom Jesus...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 27:5. SECRET LOVE. Zöckler and Hitzig understand this love to be that “_which from false consideration dissembles, and does not tell his friend of his faults when it should...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 27:8. PLACE, rather “_home_.” Proverbs 27:9. This verse is obscurely rendered in the English version. Delitzsch translates “_Oil and frankincense rejoice the heart, and the...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 27:1 These verses are grouped in pairs, each two being connected in subject. PROVERBS 27:1 BOAST NOT THYSELF OF TOMORROW. He boasts himself ...
Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring foRuth (Proverbs 27:1). Very good. This is, of course, the idea is taken up in the New Testament book of James. He said, "Go t...
2 John 1:4; Ecclesiastes 2:18; Philemon 1:19; Philemon 1:20; Phil
MAKING THE MOST OF LIFE Proverbs 27:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS God has given to each of us a life freighted with many privileges and with many opportunities. There is a little verse in the New Testament w...
Reproacheth — For being the father of a wicked son....