Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Proverbs 27:15
Continual dropping - Here, as in the marginal reference, the flat, earthen roof of Eastern houses, always liable to cracks and leakage, supplies the groundwork of the similitude.
Continual dropping - Here, as in the marginal reference, the flat, earthen roof of Eastern houses, always liable to cracks and leakage, supplies the groundwork of the similitude.
Verse Proverbs 27:15. _A CONTINUAL DROPPING_] See Proverbs 19:13....
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...
CONTENTIOUS. wrangling....
See Proverbs 19:13....
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...
A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike. ....
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...
Wives should try not to upset their husbands. Some wives are always arguing. But a good wife is calm. She gently teaches her husband when he is wrong. And she works hard, so that he is content. See Pr...
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 CONTINUAL DROPPING IN A VERY RAINY DAY. — See above on Proverbs 19:13....
דֶּ֣לֶף טֹ֭ורֵד בְּ יֹ֣ום סַגְרִ֑יר וְ אֵ֥שֶׁ
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...
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...
A CONTINUAL DROPPING IN A VERY RAINY DAY,.... That is, through the roof of a house which is not well covered, or which lets in rain by one means or another; so that in a thorough rainy day it keeps co...
A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike. Ver. 15. _A continual dropping._] _See Trapp on "_ Pro 19:13 _"_...
_A continual dropping, &c., and a contentious woman are alike_ Are equally troublesome; the first not suffering a man to go abroad with comfort; the latter not permitting him to stay at home with quie...
A continual dropping in a very rainy day, when the drip of the spouts persists with maddening monotony, AND A CONTENTIOUS WOMAN, one always nagging and quarreling, ARE ALIKE, namely, in their disagree...
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...
Are equally troublesome, the first not suffering a man to go abroad with comfort, the latter not permitting him to stay at home with quietness....
Proverbs 27:15 continual H2956 (H8802) dripping H1812 rainy H5464 day H3117 contentious H4079 (H8675) H4066 wom
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...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 27:15 In light of v. Proverbs 27:12, these proverbs encourage a man to be careful, for a QUARRELSOME character would likely be ev
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...
Job 14:19; Proverbs 19:13; Proverbs 21:19; Proverbs 21:9; Prover
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...