Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Proverbs 4:27
The ever-recurring image of the straight road on which no one ever loses his way represents here as elsewhere the onward course through life of the man who seeks and finds wisdom.
The ever-recurring image of the straight road on which no one ever loses his way represents here as elsewhere the onward course through life of the man who seeks and finds wisdom.
Verse Proverbs 4:27. _TURN NOT TO THE RIGHT HAND NOR TO THE LEFT_] Avoid all crooked ways. Be an upright, downright, and straight-forward man. Avoid _tricks, wiles_, and _deceptions_ of this kind. T...
CHAPTER 4 _ 1. Solomon's training (Proverbs 4:1)_ 2. Hear, O my son: Receive my sayings (Proverbs 4:10) 3. My son, attend to my words. (Proverbs 4:20)...
At the end of this verse the LXX. add: "For the ways on the right God knoweth, But the ways on the left are crooked. And He will make straight thy paths, And thy goings will He conduct in peace....
TURN NOT, &C.— The LXX and Arabic read, "Do not decline to the right, nor to the left; remove thy foot from the evil way. For God knoweth the ways to the right, but those to the left are perverse ways...
TEXT Proverbs 4:20-27 20. My son, attend to my words; Incline thine ear unto my sayings. 21. Let them not depart from thine eyes; Keep them in the midst of thy heart. 22. For they are life unt...
Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil. TURN NOT TO THE RIGHT HAND NOR TO THE LEFT - (.) The image is from the king's highway (; ). God's holy law is our heavenly Kin...
ANCESTRAL WISDOM. THE TWO PATHS In Proverbs 4:1 the teacher lays stress on the fact that his instruction is a repetition of his father's. No teaching was thought valuable save that which was handed do...
Wise words are like medicine. They benefit every part of our bodies....
Again, this compares life to a journey. We will live ‘the best life’ if we obey God. This is like the best route for a journey. If we serve God, then we will help other people. We will be like a postm...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 4 V1 My sons, listen to your father’s instruction. As you listen to me, you will understand more....
TURN NOT ASIDE... — Comp. the direction of Joshua 1:7, and the praise accorded to David (1 Kings 15:5)....
אַֽל ־תֵּט ־יָמִ֥ין וּ שְׂמֹ֑אול הָסֵ֖ר רַגְל
CHAPTER 5 EDUCATION: THE CHILD'S THOUGHT OF THE PARENT "Wisdom doth live with children round her knees." - Wordsworth. "He taught me, and said unto me," etc. Proverbs 4:4 THIS chapter begins with a...
GUIDE-POSTS ON THE WAY OF LIFE Proverbs 4:10-27 One or two sentences stand out in this section, demanding special attention. _The path of the just, etc_., Proverbs 4:18. We may compare this beautiful...
In this chapter there are three addresses. The first is of the nature of personal testimony (verses Pro 4:1-9). The next two are exhortations to fidelity (verses Pro 4:10-27). The father urges his own...
_For, &c. What follows in not in Hebrew or the Complutensian (Calmet) Septuagint. But it is in the Roman [Septuagint], &c., (Haydock) and in the new edition of St. Jerome, as it was explained by Ven....
My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to al...
REELECTIONS. How delightful is it to see the beautiful similitude the wise man adopts in this book of Proverbs, by way of recommending attention to this great subject of getting Wisdom and understandi...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 9. There are two very distinct parts in this book. The first nine Chapter s, which give the great general principles; and the proverbs, properly so...
TURN NOT TO THE RIGHT HAND NOR TO THE LEFT,.... Either into the road of immorality and profaneness, or into that of error, superstition, and false worship; but attend to the way of holiness and truth,...
Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil. Ver. 27. _Turn not to the right._] Keep the king's highway; keep within God's precincts, and ye keep under his protection. The h...
Turn not to the right hand nor to the left, to by-paths of evil; REMOVE THY FOOT FROM EVIL, withdrawing it at once in case of danger. The entire admonition may fitly be summarized in the words of the...
WARNING AGAINST WICKEDNESS...
14-27 The way of evil men may seem pleasant, and the nearest way to compass some end; but it is an evil way, and will end ill; if thou love thy God and thy soul, avoid it. It is not said, Keep at a d...
Fly all extremes, and neither add to God's commands, nor take from them....
Proverbs 4:27 turn H5186 (H8799) right H3225 left H8040 Remove H5493 (H8685) foot H7272 evil H7451...
A GENERAL APPEAL TO HEAR HIS WORDS AND SAYINGS, AND INSTRUCTIONS WITH REGARD TO HIS HEART, MOUTH, EYES AND FEET (PROVERBS 4:20). Solomon urges those who hear him and read his words to take them to hea...
Proverbs 4:24 First the fountain, then the streams; first the heart and then the life-course. The issues of life are manifold: three of their main channels are mapped out here the "lips," the "eyes,...
CONTENTS: Earnest exhortation to the study of true wisdom. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: True wisdom from God is the principle thing. It is that which recommends us to God, which be...
Proverbs 4:1. _Hear, ye children,_ a Hebraism, equivalent to wash, cleanse, and purify your ears. A grateful son here recites the domestic piety of an illustrious father. David talked much with his ch...
_Turn not to the right hand nor to the left._ RELIGIOUS AND MORAL CONDUCT Whatever the belief of men be, they generally pride themselves on the possession of some good moral qualities. The sense of d...
_Put away from thee a froward mouth._ LAWS OF LIFE A law for the tongue, a law for the eye, a law for the mind, a law for the life. I. A demand for pure language. Speech is one of the grand peculia...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 4:22. HEALTH, or “healing.” PROVERBS 4:23. “Above all other watching, keep thy heart,” some read: “Keep thy heart with all (kinds of) keeping.” _Issues_—“currents,” “outgoi...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 4:1 7. _Seventh admonitory discourse. _We here enter upon the second group of admonitory discourses, as is indicated by the opening address, "my children," and which occurs again...
Continuing to his son. Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend that you might know understanding. For I give you good doctrine, don't forsake my law. For I was my father's son, ten...
Deuteronomy 12:32; Deuteronomy 28:14; Deuteronomy 5:32; Isaiah 1:16;...
SACRED EXHORTATIONS Proverbs 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It is well, now and then, to step aside and consider what God has to say to young men and women; as well as to consider what He says to their fath...