Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Proverbs 27:26
And the goats are the price of the field — i.e., you can purchase a field from the profit of your goats.
And the goats are the price of the field — i.e., you can purchase a field from the profit of your goats.
Verse Proverbs 27:26. _THE LAMBS_ ARE _FOR THY CLOTHING_] So many _fleeces_ are given in some places as _rent_ to the landlord....
The verses sing the praises of the earlier patriarchal life, with its flocks and herds, and tillage of the ground, as compared with the commerce of a later time, with money as its chief or only wealth...
V. INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN TO SOLOMON In the three Chapter s which follow 27-29 we find the change we have noticed before. These proverbs are addressed to a person and the phrases “My son” and the persona...
A collection of aphorisms on various subjects. PROVERBS 27:3. _cf._ Sir_22:14 f. The comparison suggests that vexation is out of place. It is the fool that is a bore, not his anger. Proverbs 27:4 a...
GOATS. he goats....
FOR RICHES ARE NOT FOR EVER, &C.— See Hiller. pars 2: p. 9. The author of the Observations remarks, that _milk_ is a great part of the diet of the eastern people. Their _goats_ furnish them with some...
TEXT Proverbs 27:19-27 19. As in water face answereth face, So the heart of man to man. 20. Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; And the eyes of man are never satisfied. 21. The refining pot...
The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field. THE LAMBS (ARE) FOR THY CLOTHING - with their fleeces. AND THE GOATS (ARE) THE PRICE OF THE FIELD - you can buy the fiel...
SUNDRY OBSERVATIONS. AGRICULTURE 4. Envy] a husband's jealousy is meant (Song of Solomon 8:6). 5, 6. Men 'hide' (RV) love when they refrain from telling a friend his faults. An enemy will be 'profus...
Sell your stock, and with the proceeds buy clothing and land....
Solomon is describing a farm. He warns the farmer to be responsible. If the farmer does not work, he could lose his land. But if the farmer works hard, his family will be content. The sheep and goats...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 27 V1 Do not become proud about your plans for tomorrow. You do not know what will happen tomorrow....
כְּבָשִׂ֥ים לִ לְבוּשֶׁ֑ךָ וּ מְחִ֥יר שָׂ֝דֶ֗ה...
CHAPTER 28 LIVING DAY BY DAY "Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day will bring forth."- Proverbs 27:1 "The grave and destruction are never satisfied; and the eyes of men ar...
Verse Proverbs 27:5. This proverb takes for granted the need for rebuke, and by 'love that is hidden" is meant a love which fails to rebuke. Verse Proverbs 27:14. There is nothing more calculated to...
The (k) lambs [are] for thy clothing, and the goats [are] the price of the field. (k) This declares the great goodness of God towards man, and the diligence that he requires from him for the preserva...
_Field. If thou wishest to purchase, or to pay the workmen._...
My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me. A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished. Take his garment tha...
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...
THE LAMBS [ARE] FOR THY CLOTHING,.... This is another argument, exciting to diligence in the pastoral calling, taken from the profit arising from it: the wool of the lambs, or rather "sheep", as many...
The lambs [are] for thy clothing, and the goats [are] the price of the field. Ver. 26. _The lambs are for thy clothing._] _Ad esum et ad usum,_ for food and raiment a profitable creature. Some creatu...
_The hay appeareth, and the tender grass_ In their proper seasons. These and the following things are mentioned as further arguments and encouragements to persuade to diligence: God invites thee to it...
WISDOM AND HUMILITY GO HAND IN HAND...
The lambs are for thy clothing, their fleece furnishing wool for garments, AND THE GOATS ARE THE PRICE OF THE FIELD, their value being so great that the money obtained by their sale will pay for the f...
HERE THE SUBJECT matter is completely changed. No longer is the outside opposition of the enemy found, but any dangers now considered are those arising from the state of our own hearts. This third sec...
THE LAMBS ARE FOR THY CLOTHING; by their wool and skins, either used to clothe thyself with or sold to purchase all manner of clothing for thyself and family. THE GOATS ARE THE PRICE OF THE FIELD; by...
Proverbs 27:26 lambs H3532 clothing H3830 goats H6260 price H4242 field H7704 Job 31:20...
Proverbs 27:1. _Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth._ Let us never boast of future days and years, or what we mean to do when we come to any age, or what sh...
CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions. CHARACTERS: Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: (Principal lesson.) Use the present time with diligence and wisdom and presume not upon tomorrow. We should speak of th...
Proverbs 27:2. _Let another man praise thee._ A man is sometimes compelled to speak of himself. But modesty often prefers speaking in the third person; as St. John, who says, “that disciple whom Jesus...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Proverbs 27:23_ MODEL FARMING These words were especially applicable to the Israelitish people in their early history, when every family lived upon its own domain...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 27:1 These verses are grouped in pairs, each two being connected in subject. PROVERBS 27:1 BOAST NOT THYSELF OF TOMORROW. He boasts himself ...
Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring foRuth (Proverbs 27:1). Very good. This is, of course, the idea is taken up in the New Testament book of James. He said, "Go t...
Job 31:20...
MAKING THE MOST OF LIFE Proverbs 27:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS God has given to each of us a life freighted with many privileges and with many opportunities. There is a little verse in the New Testament w...
The price — By the sale whereof thou mayest either pay the rent of the field which thou hirest, or purchase fields or lands. Goats might better be spared and sold than sheep, which brought a more cons...