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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Proverbs 1:19

Verse Proverbs 1:19. Which taketh away the life] A covetous man is in effect, and in the sight of God, a murderer; he wishes to get all the gain that can accrue to any or all who are in the same business that he follows-no matter to him how many families starve in consequence. This is the very case with him who sets up shop after shop in different parts of the same town or neighbourhood, in which he carries on the same business, and endeavours to undersell others in the same trade, that he may get all into his own hand.

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See also Proverbs 1:19 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Not robbery only, but all forms of covetousness are destructive of true life....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS A detailed analysis, as we have made it in other books, cannot be fully made in this collection of proverbs. Most of them are detached and each has a message by itself. To int...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    PROVERBS 1-9. FIRST SECTION. THE PRAISE OF WISDOM. Proverbs 1:1. Title, either of the whole book, or of this particular collection. The word for PROVERB, _mâ shâ l,_ has a wide significance _in Heb....

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    LIFE. soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13. OWNERS. Hebrew. _ba'al,_ as in Proverbs 1:17. The "owners" of. soul are like the "owners" of wings, and are caught in their own trap with their eyes open....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    which _taketh away_ Rather, IT (greed of gain) TAKETH AWAY THE LIFE OF THEM THAT HAVE IT. It is the destruction of those who are possessed by it. The same Heb. phrase, owner or lord of, is rendered _h...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THE LIFE OF THE OWNERS THEREOF— The Hebrew is not well translated here; בעל _bangal,_ which often occurs in this book, signifies not only being _lord_ or _owner_ of a thing, but also under the dominio...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    TEXT - Proverbs 1:10-19 10. My son, if sinners entice thee, Consent thou not. 11. If they say, Come with us, Let us lay in wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause; 12...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof. SO (ARE) THE WAYS OF EVERY ONE THAT IS GREEDY OF GAIN - literally, 'of every one greedy of gr...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    The chapter falls into three principal divisions. 1-6. Title and Introduction explaining the object of the whole book, which is to instruct the inexperienced and add to the educated man's knowledge. I...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    The truth is this. The thieves also intend to kill the young man. This means that the thieves will keep all the money. Solomon’s story teaches us about evil behaviour. An evil life is not fun. It is...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ ABOUT THE BOOK OF PROVERBS King Solomon ruled the nation of Israel for 40 years. He brought peace and wealth to the nation. Solomon’s workmen built pa...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    SO ARE THE WAYS... — The conclusion of the discourse. The same phrase occurs in Job 8:13. WHICH TAKETH AWAY... — That is, covetousness takes away the life of him who has this vice in his heart, who is...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כֵּ֗ן אָ֭רְחֹות כָּל ־בֹּ֣צֵֽעַ בָּ֑צַע אֶת ־

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 2 THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge."- Proverbs 1:7 "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: And the knowledge of the Holy One is understa...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “THE BEGINNING OF KNOWLEDGE” Proverbs 1:1-19 Notice the perfect balance of each clause, and the duplication of the one thought in the two clauses of each verse. _Wisdom_ as used in this book is more...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The Book of Proverbs is one of the wisdom books of the Hebrew people. Emotionally and fundamentally, wisdom is the fear of God; intellectually, a knowledge of the manifestations of the divine wisdom;...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; [which] taketh away (p) the life of the owners thereof. (p) By which he concludes that the covetous man is a murderer....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Possessors. Of money. (Calmet) --- While they attempt to invade another's property, they ruin themselves, and come to the gallows. (Haydock)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck. My son, if sinners entice thee, cons...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    SO [ARE] THE WAYS OF EVERYONE THAT IS GREEDY OF GAIN,.... That is set upon getting riches in an unlawful way, by robberies and murder; his ways will end in the loss of his own blood and life, and in t...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; [which] taketh away the life of the owners thereof. Ver. 19. _Which taketh away the life._] The greater wealth, the greater spoil awaits a man:...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And they lay wait_, &c. Assure thyself, such men are working their own ruin, and, as it were, lying in wait for themselves, when they lie in wait to take away the lives of others; for, in the end, th...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    A FUNDAMENTAL TRAIT OF WISDOM IS THE AVOIDANCE OF WICKEDNESS...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    So are the ways of every one that Is greedy of gain, that is the fate of all those who choose a career of crime in serving the vice of avarice, WHICH TAKETH AWAY THE LIFE OF THE OWNERS THEREOF, unjust...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    10-19 Wicked people are zealous in seducing others into the paths of the destroyer: sinners love company in sin. But they have so much the more to answer for. How cautious young people should be! "Co...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SO, as is expressed both in the foregoing and following words, ARE THE WAYS; the actions and courses, which are so in the tendency and event of them. THAT IS GREEDY OF PAIN; that seeks gain by unright...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Proverbs 1:19 ways H734 greedy H1214 (H8802) gain H1215 away H3947 (H8799) life H5315 owners H1167...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    PROLOGUE TO THE BOOK (PROVERBS 1:8 TO PROVERBS 9:18). It was common throughout the 3rd to the 1st millenniums BC for collections of wisdom saying to have a prologue preparing for the ‘sayings' that wo...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE COMPELLING NEED TO AVOID THE ENTICEMENTS OF SINNERS MOTIVATED BY GREED (PROVERBS 1:10). Solomon now vividly portrays the dangers of greed and violence, two things which often go together. The one...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    DISCOURSE 1. ADDRESSED TO ‘MY SON'. THOSE WHO SEEK TO WALK IN THE FEAR OF YHWH WILL LISTEN TO THE INSTRUCTION OF GODLY AUTHORITY, AND WILL AVOID THE ENTICEMENTS OF SINNERS MOTIVATED BY GREED. WISDOM I...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Wisdom's reasoning with the children of men and the certain ruin of those who turn a deaf ear to Wisdom's call. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son, Wisdom, (Christ). CONCLUSION: Of all thin...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Proverbs 1:1. _Proverbs,_ apothegms, parables, sentences, similitudes. The proverbs of a nation are the compressions of wisdom into short maxims, which like the coins of a country worn bare by use, pa...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _My son, if sinners entice thee._ REASONS FOR RESISTING THE ENTICEMENTS OF SINNERS By sinners is meant all persons who are not true Christians. Three reasons why we should not consent when sinners e...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 1:17 A BIRD that sees a fowler spreading a NET is aware of the trap and will flee the danger rather than take the bait. However, those who seek to trap the innocent overlook...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 1:10. ENTICE THEE, “lay thee open.” Miller here reads “if sinners would make a door of thy simplicity, afford thou no entrance.” PROVERBS 1:17. Some interpret this verse as...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION PROVERBS 1:1 PART I. THE TITLE AND SUPERSCRIPTION. The superscription of the Proverbs, which extends from verse 1 to verse 6, furnishes us with an epitome in short and concise language of...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Shall we turn in our Bibles tonight to Proverbs, chapter 1. The first six verses are sort of a preface to the book, as authors many times write a preface to their work. The Proverbs of Solomon the so...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Timothy 3:3; 1 Timothy 6:10; 1 Timothy 6:9; 2 Kings 5:20; 2 Pe

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON Proverbs 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Solomon's great choice. It was in Gibeon that the Lord appeared unto Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, "Ask what I shall give thee...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Greedy — That seeks gain by wicked practices....

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