Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Proverbs 17:7
The proverb writers show no hope of redeeming the lost. Their verdict is, 'He that is filthy let him be filthy still.'
The proverb writers show no hope of redeeming the lost. Their verdict is, 'He that is filthy let him be filthy still.'
Verse Proverbs 17:7. _EXCELLENT SPEECH BECOMETH NOT A FOOL_] This proverb is suitable to those who affect, in public speaking, fine language, which neither comports with their ordinary conversation, n...
The margin renderings are more literal and give greater emphasis. What is pointed out is not the unfitness of lying lips for the princely-hearted, but the necessity of harmony, in each case, between c...
CHAPTER 17 DIVERSE PROVERBS Of the twenty-eight proverbs found in this chapter we point out but a few. “The fining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold; but the LORD trieth the hearts” (Proverbs...
PROVERBS 17. Fresh points are the rise of the able and clever slave to a place in the family (Proverbs 17:2), the practice of bribes (Proverbs 17:8; Proverbs 17:23), the value of adversity as a test o...
SPEECH. Hebrew "lip", put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6, for what is spoken by it. FOOL. Hebrew. _nabal._ See note on Proverbs 1:7. Not the same word as in verses: Proverbs 17:10; P...
_Excellent_ Or, _arrogant_, R.V. marg....
CHAPTER 17 TEXT Proverbs 17:1-10 1. Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, Than a house full of feasting with strife. 2. A servant that dealeth wisely shall have rule over a son that ca...
Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince. EXCELLENT SPEECH (A LIP OF EXCELLENCY) BECOMETH NOT A FOOL; MUCH LESS DO LYING LIPS (A LIP OF LYING) A PRINCE. "Excellent spe...
17:7 speech (k-2) Lit. 'lip.' [man]; (l-7) Or 'a fool,' _ Nabal_ . see ch 1.7. As Psalms 14:1 , and ch. 30.22....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 17 V1 One man eats dry bread in a calm and quiet place. But that man’s meal is better than the food at a party where there are arguments....
Solomon uses humour here. A fool (an evil person) should be careful about his words. His words will cause trouble. Instead, he should say nothing. Certainly, he should not try to speak in a clever way...
EXCELLENT SPEECH BECOMETH NOT A FOOL. — Rather, perhaps, _Superfluous or pretentious words become not a vile person_ (_nâbhâl_)_,_ such as is described in Isaiah 32:6. (Comp. 1 Samuel 25:25.) MUCH LES...
לֹא ־נָאוָ֣ה לְ נָבָ֣ל שְׂפַת ־יֶ֑תֶר אַ֝֗ף
CHAPTER 18 FRIENDSHIP "A friend loveth at all times, and as a brother is born for adversity."- Proverbs 17:17 This rendering, based upon the margin of the R.V, yields a much better sense than the lo...
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 h...
Verse Proverbs 17:3. Two important thoughts are suggested by this proverb. First, that the heart will yield to no force other than that of God. Dross in metal may be discovered and expurged by fire, b...
_Eloquent. Septuagint, "faithful." They cannot be expected from them._...
The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts. A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue. Whoso mocketh the poor repro...
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...
EXCELLENT SPEECH BECOMETH NOT A FOOL,.... A wicked man. Eloquence, or a sublime grand way of speaking, a copiousness and fluency of expression, become not such; because hereby he may be capable of doi...
_Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince._ Ver. 7. _Excellent speech becometh not a fool._] A Nabal, a sapless, worthless fellow, in whom all worth is withered and deca...
_Excellent speech_ Either, 1st, Discourse concerning difficult, high, and excellent things, far above his capacity: or, 2d, Lofty, eloquent speech, which fools often affect: or, 3d, Virtuous and godly...
V. 7. EXCELLENT SPEECH, fine and high talk, in an assuming, dictatorial way, becometh not a fool; MUCH LESS DO LYING LIPS A PRINCE, for true nobility will have nothing to do with deceitfulness and cra...
EXCELLENT SPEECH: _ Heb._ A lip of excellency LYING LIPS: _ Heb._ a lip of lying...
EXCELLENT SPEECH; either, 1. Discourse of high and excellent things far above his capacity. Or, 2. Lofty or eloquent speech, which fools oft affect, Or, 3. Virtuous and godly discourse. A FOOL; eit...
Proverbs 17:7 Excellent H3499 speech H8193 becoming H5000 fool H5036 lying H8267 lips H8193 prince H5081 Excellent speech - Heb. A lip
CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: About the most satisfactory substitute for wisdom is silence. Discretion of speech is better than fluency of speech. KEY W...
Proverbs 17:1. _Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith._ See Proverbs 15:17. Proverbs 17:3. _The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace_ (or crucible) _for gold._ Silver ores in Mexico are...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 17:7. EXCELLENT SPEECH, literally “a lip of excess or prominence, an assuming, imperious style of speech” (_Zöckler_). A PRINCE, rather, _a noble_, a man of lofty dispositio...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 17:1 (Comp, Proverbs 15:16, Proverbs 15:17; Proverbs 16:8.) Better
Better is a dry morsel, with quietness, than a house full of sacrifices with strife (Proverbs 17:1). Now the house full of sacrifices refer to the sacrifices. It's, if in that economy the of the Judai...
2 Samuel 23:3; Job 34:12; Matthew 7:5; Proverbs 12:19; Proverbs 16:10
Excellent speech — Discourse of high and excellent things....