Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Proverbs 24:12
If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not. — Man being too much inclined to answer after the manner of Cain (Genesis 4:9), “Am I my brother’s keeper?” when he might give aid to those who need it.
If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not. — Man being too much inclined to answer after the manner of Cain (Genesis 4:9), “Am I my brother’s keeper?” when he might give aid to those who need it.
As Proverbs 24:11 warned men against acquiescing in an unrighteous tyranny, so this denounces the tendency to hush up a wrong with the false plea of ignorance. Compare Ecclesiastes 5:8. Proverbs 2
CHAPTER 24 INSTRUCTIONS CONTINUED In the final instructions of this chapter we find first a description of the evil men. Their heart studieth destruction; their lips talk mischief. This theme is repea...
PROVERBS 24:7 A. Lit. Wisdom is corals to the fool. RV involves a change m the text, which gives perhaps the best sense that can be made of an obviously corrupt stanza. Proverbs 24:9. thought: the wor...
KNEW IT NOT. we knew not of it. SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13....
_knew it not_ Lit. KNEW NOT THIS (_thing_, or _man_)....
DISCOURSE: 807 THE FOLLY OF VAIN EXCUSES Proverbs 24:11. _If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; if thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth...
CHAPTER 24 TEXT Proverbs 24:1-12 1. Be not thou envious against evil men; Neither desire to be with them: 2. For their heart studieth oppression, And their lips talk of mischief. 3. Through wi...
If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his work...
24:12 weigheth (f-13) As 1 Samuel 2:3 ; 'meted,' Isaiah 40:12 ....
5. Read, 'A wise man is better than a warrior, and a man of knowledge than a man of strength.'...
You should not pretend that you do not see someone else’s troubles. Help that person! Perhaps you can save him. God knows your actions. God will be your judge. See Ezekiel 33:1-9. God told Ezekiel to...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 24 V1 Do not be jealous of evil men. Do not try to meet them. V2
כִּֽי ־תֹאמַ֗ר הֵן֮ לֹא ־יָדַ֪עְנ֫וּ זֶ֥ה הֲֽ
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 hi...
Warnings are uttered against envy, against the formation of evil companionships, against excess in passion, against all false exhilaration; and perperpetual attention to wisdom and earnest endeavor to...
_I have. Hebrew, "behold, we know not this man." (Pagnin) (Haydock) --- He is a stranger. But all mankind are brethren, and have a charge to assist one another, even though they be enemies, Ecclesiast...
If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that k...
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...
IF THOU SAYEST, BEHOLD, WE KNEW IT NOT,.... The danger the person was in; or the innocency of his cause; or what method to take to deliver him; or that it was in our power to do anything for him; so t...
If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider [it]? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth [not] he know [it]? and shall [not] he render to [every] man according to...
_If thou forbear to deliver_ When it is in thy power to do it lawfully; _them that are drawn unto death_ Namely, unjustly, or by the violence of lawless men; _and those that are ready to be slain_ Tha...
V. 12. IF THOU SAYEST, BEHOLD, WE KNEW IT NOT, the one addressed trying to salve his conscience with a poor excuse, DOTH NOT HE THAT PONDERETH THE HEART CONSIDER IT? AND HE THAT KEEPETH THY SOUL, fami...
WE KNEW IT NOT; I was ignorant either of his innocency, or of his extreme danger, or of my power to relieve him. CONSIDER IT; that this is only a frivolous excuse, and that the true reason of thy negl...
Proverbs 24:12 say H559 (H8799) know H3045 (H8804) weighs H8505 (H8802) hearts H3826 consider H995 ...
Proverbs 24:11 I. Groundless excuses can be of no avail as made to God, because, in the first place, He is a Being who considers everything. If God considers, if He be a God who searcheth the spirits,...
CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: If wicked people prosper, we should not be inclined to do as they do, nor complain of what God does in His provide...
Proverbs 24:1. _Be not envious against evil men._ Similar thoughts occur in Psalms 37:1; Psalms 73; Proverbs 17:1. Why should we envy the wicked? We are all g
_If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death._ THE CLAIM OF OUR BROTHER’S NEED 1. It is supposed that there is an allusion here to what is understood to have been a custom among the Jew...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 24:11 The one who embraces wisdom can never be content with merely seeking the well-being of himself or his family; he will seek justice as widely as he can....
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 24:11. Literally, “_Deliver them who are dragged forth unto death, and them that totter to the slaughter, oh, rescue them_.” PROVERBS 24:12. HE THAT PONDERETH, literally, _...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 24:1 We return here to the more usual form, the tetrastich. BE NOT THOU ENVIOUS AGAINST EVIL MEN (see on Proverbs 23:17, where a similar warning is given, and comp....
Again, he continues in twenty-four in putting them together in couplets or in phrases. Be not envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. For their heart studies destruction, and their...
1 Corinthians 4:5; 1 Samuel 16:7; 1 Samuel 2:6; 1 Samuel 25:29;...
Consider — That this is only a frivolous excuse....