Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Proverbs 16:13
kings. Some codices, with Septuagint, Aramaean, and Syriac, read "a king".
they love, &c, or, kings love the words of uprightness.
kings. Some codices, with Septuagint, Aramaean, and Syriac, read "a king".
they love, &c, or, kings love the words of uprightness.
CHAPTER 16 IN THE LIGHT OF THE LORD The name Jehovah (LORD) appears eleven times in this chapter of Proverbs. The Lord has the final word, for to man belong the preparations (or plans) of the heart; b...
PROVERBS 16. The special feature is a group of aphorisms (Proverbs 16:10) relating to kings. The sentiments seem rather to reflect the picture of the ideal king than to indicate any particular period....
TEXT Proverbs 16:12-22 12. It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness; For the throne is established by righteousness. 13. Righteous lips are the delight of kings; And they love him that...
Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right. RIGHTEOUS LIPS (ARE) THE DELIGHT OF KINGS. Good kings delight in those who speak only what is "righteous." This is t...
1-9. God's control of human life....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 16 The subject of the book now begins to change. In earlier Chapter s, the main subject is the difference between wise actions and evil action...
If a servant is honest, then the king should reward him. The servant might bring bad news. His honest words might upset the king. But the king needs honest servants to speak wise words of advice. If t...
רְצֹ֣ון מְ֭לָכִים שִׂפְתֵי ־צֶ֑דֶק וְ דֹבֵ֖ר...
CHAPTER 17 A JUST BALANCE "A just balance and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are His work."- Proverbs 16:11 "A false balance is an abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is H...
CHAPTER 29 AN ASPECT OF ATONEMENT "He that hideth his transgressions shall not prosper; but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall obtain mercy."- Proverbs 28:13 "Happy is the man that feareth...
Verse Proverbs 16:1. A somewhat obscure proverb which recognizes that man has to exercise his own reason in making his plans, but that he is dependent on the Lord for the answer of the tongue. Dr. Per...
_Loved. Yet none are more exposed to flattery and deceit than kings. (Seneca, ep. xxi.)_...
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right. A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps. A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth trans...
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...
RIGHTEOUS LIPS [ARE] THE DELIGHT OF KINGS,.... Such that speak truth and righteousness, and advise to the administration of justice and judgment, and to do that which is most for their own true honour...
_Righteous lips [are] the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right._ Ver. 13. _Righteous lips are the delight of kings,_] _i.e., _ Of good kings, such as David was, who loved Nathan ne...
_Righteous lips are the delight of kings_ All wise and good kings do, and all kings should, delight in employing such counsellors, judges, and officers, under them, as are just and faithful in their c...
V. 13. RIGHTEOUS LIPS ARE THE DELIGHT OF KINGS, true sovereigns are pleased to have men among their counselors who will frankly state the truth in righteousness; AND THEY LOVE HIM THAT SPEAKETH RIGHT,...
All wise and good kings do, and all kings should, delight in employing such counsellors, judges, and officers under them, as are just and faithful in their counsels, and sentences, and actions, becaus...
Proverbs 16:13 Righteous H6664 lips H8193 delight H7522 kings H4428 love H157 (H8799) speaks H1696 (H8802) right
THE RESPONSIBILITY AND AUTHORITY OF A KING (PROVERBS 16:12). It is no coincidence that this subsection with its fourfold mention of the king comes after a series of subsections in which YHWH and His j...
CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The safest way in which to travel is the way of the upright, a way which God makes plain to those who desire to walk in it....
Proverbs 16:1. _The preparations of the heart in man._ As the field must be plowed, and the soil prepared for the seeds, so the heart of man must be prepared for grace. Afflictions in Egypt disposed t...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 16:10 The remaining sections of ch. Proverbs 16:1 illustrate the benefits of wisdom for the well-being of the heart (vv....
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 16:10. A DIVINE SENTENCE, literally _“divination,” i.e., “an oracle_” or “_a decision_.” “HIS MOUTH TRANSGRESSETH NOT.” Stuart and Delitzsch read, “_In judgment his mouth sh...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 16:1 These are specially religions maxims, and they all contain the name Jehovah. PROVERBS 16:1 The Authorized Version makes one sentence of this verse without any contrast or a...
Shall we turn now to Proverbs 16:1-33, the sixteenth chapter and begin our study this evening. The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD (Proverbs 16:1). Go...
Proverbs 14:35; Proverbs 22:11; Psalms 101:5...