Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Proverbs 6:7
Ants really have an elaborately organised society: in some species there is a king and queen; others keep slaves.
Ants really have an elaborately organised society: in some species there is a king and queen; others keep slaves.
The words express the wonder with which the Hebrew observer looked on the phenomena of insect life. “Guide,” better captain, as in Joshua 10:24. The Septuagint introduces here a corresponding referenc...
CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The surety (Proverbs 6:1)_ 2. The sluggard (Proverbs 6:6) 3. The naughty, good-for-nothing person (Proverbs 6:12) 4. The strange woman ...
A section totally dissimilar from the rest of this division of Pr. It consists of four short subsections Proverbs 6:1 against suretyship, Proverbs 6:6 against sloth, Proverbs 6:12 against talebearing,...
_guide_ Rather, CHIEF, R.V. (_judge_, marg.) to appoint its work. LXX. ἐκείνῳ γὰρ γεωργίου μὴ ὑπάρχοντος, in keeping with "the summer" and "the harvest" of the next verse. _overseer_ The Heb. word is...
Twelfth Address. Chap. 6. Proverbs 6:6. _The Sluggard_ 6 11. Comp. on this Section Proverbs 24:30-34....
DISCOURSE: 767 THE SLUGGARD REPROVED Proverbs 6:6. Go to the ant, thou sluggard: consider her ways and be wise: which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathere...
CHAPTER 6 TEXT Proverbs 6:1-11 1. My son, if thou art become surety for thy neighbor, If thou hast striken thy hands for a stranger; 2. Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, Thou art tak...
Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, WHICH HAVING NO GUIDE, OVERSEER, OR RULER - i:e., no leader of any kind; whereas bees and cranes have. It is the more marvelous that the ants should have...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 6 V1 My son, follow this advice when you make a mistake. Perhaps you promised to pay a neighbour’s debt....
As Christians, we should work. We might have a job. We might look after people, for example our families. We might do God’s work, perhaps as a church leader. We might do various tasks. Whatever we do,...
(j)_. Tenth Discourse:_ — _Against Sloth_ (Proverbs 6:6) (7) GUIDE. — Properly, _judge_ (the Arabic _cadi_)_,_ then _leader, prince. _...
אֲשֶׁ֖ר אֵֽין ־לָ֥הּ קָצִ֗ין שֹׁטֵ֥ר וּ מֹשֵׁ
CHAPTER 7 CERTAIN EXAMPLES OF THE BINDING CHARACTER OF OUR OWN ACTIONS "The surety the sluggard and the worthless person." Proverbs 6:1; Proverbs 6:6; Proverbs 6:12 FROM the solemn principle announc...
AVOID SURETYSHIP AND SLOTH Proverbs 6:1 A young man, being entreated by his friend to go bond for him, consents, in an easy-going way to become his surety. He promises to be responsible for the other...
The parental exhortations are continued. In this section they are directed against suretyship, indolence, the evil man, and certain specific things which Jehovah hates. The warnings against becoming s...
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. How long wilt thou sle...
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...
WHICH HAVING NO GUIDE, OVERSEER, OR RULER. None to guide and direct her what to do; nor any to overlook her, to see that she does aright, or to oblige her to work, and keep her to it; nor any to call...
Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Ver. 7. _Which having no guide, overseer, &c._] How much more then should man, who hath all these, and is both _ad laborem natus, et ratione ornatus,_ born...
_Go to the ant_, &c. “Nor are industry and diligence requisite in this alone, but in all thy affairs; to which, therefore, if thou art slothful, I must excite thee by the example of the ants; whose or...
which, having no guide, overseer, or ruler, none of the officials who were and are required in Oriental countries to oversee the average workman,...
WARNING AGAINST FOOLISH SURETYSHIP, IDLENESS, AND MALICE...
6-11 Diligence in business is every man's wisdom and duty; not so much that he may attain worldly wealth, as that he may not be a burden to others, or a scandal to the church. The ants are more dilig...
Which might direct them in or quicken them to the work, as the bees have their kings, and many other creatures have their leaders. This heightens their commendation....
Proverbs 6:7 captain H7101 Overseer H7860 (H8802) ruler H4910 (H8802) Job 38:39-41,...
A WARNING TO THE LAZY (PROVERBS 6:6). The urgency required of the surety in dealing with his problem in Proverbs 6:1, and the possibility that he might be slack in doing so, may well have raised in So...
CONTENTS: Caution against rash suretiship, slothfulness, forwardness, and whoredom. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: Suretiship is to be avoided, because by it poverty and ruin are ofte...
Proverbs 6:1. _If thou be surety for thy friend._ If charity has gained an ascendancy over the judgment, prepare to perform thy covenant. To aid a friend in poverty is a generous deed, it is lending w...
_Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler._ OVERSEERS NEEDED When I began to employ workmen in this country (Palestine), nothing annoyed me more than the necessity to hire also an overseer, or to fu...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 6:7 The fact that the ant has no CHIEF, OFFICER, OR RULER shows that it has initiative, which the sluggard lacks. ⇐...
CRITICAL NOTES,— Proverbs 6:11. One that travelleth, “a highwayman,” “a footpad.” ARMED MAN, literally, “a man of the shield. _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Proverbs 6:6_ INDUSTRY AND INDOLENC...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 6:1 The sixth chapter embraces four distinct discourses, each of which is a warning. The subjects treated of are (1) suretyship (Proverbs 6:1); (2) sloth ...
Now let us turn to Proverbs, chapter 6. The first part of the Proverbs is exhortation to my son. It's just good fatherly advice to sons. And chapter 6 continues in these exhortations that are opened b...
Job 38:39; Job 39:1; Job 39:26; Job 41:4...