Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Proverbs 15:19
The way of the slothful [man is] as an hedge of (e) thorns: but the way of the righteous [is] made plain.
(e) That is, he always finds some hinderance or stay, and dares not go forward.
The way of the slothful [man is] as an hedge of (e) thorns: but the way of the righteous [is] made plain.
(e) That is, he always finds some hinderance or stay, and dares not go forward.
Verse Proverbs 15:19. _THE WAY OF THE SLOTHFUL_ MAN IS _AS A HEDGE OF THORNS_] Because he is _slothful_, he imagines _ten thousand_ difficulties in the way which cannot be surmounted; but they are all...
The slothful goes on his journey, and for him the path is thick set with thorns, briars, fences, through which he cannot force his way. For the “righteous” (better, upright), the same path is as the b...
CHAPTER 15 THE BETTER THINGS One can read through the proverbs recorded in this chapter and ask the question, What are the better things? A soft answer which turneth away wrath is better than grievou...
PROVERBS 15. This chapter makes no new departure. Proverbs concerning the moral government of the world again occupy the chief place. One (Proverbs 15:11) is noteworthy as showing an extended concepti...
THE RIGHTEOUS. upright ones. MADE PLAIN. a raised road. Illustration: Eleazar (Genesis 24:12; Genesis 24:26; Genesis 24:27; Genesis 2
_a hedge of thorns_ which may be either of his own making (Proverbs 24:30-31), or of his own imagining (Proverbs 22:13). _made plain_ "Heb. _raised up as a causey_" (archaic form of _causeway_), A.V....
TEXT Proverbs 15:12-22 12. A scoffer loveth not to be reproved; He will not go unto the wise. 13. A glad heart maketh a cheerful countenance; But by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken. 14. T...
The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain. THE WAY OF THE SLOTHFUL (MAN IS) AS AN HEDGE OF THORNS. It seems to him as if a hedge of thorns was...
15:19 plain. (a-20) Or 'raised up as a causeway.' see ch. 16.17. As 'cast up.' Isaiah 57:14 ....
1. GRIEVOUS] i.e. annoying. 'If one pour in hot water let the other pour in cold.'...
The one sees imaginary hindrances: the other's course is a well-made level road....
A slow man can be very slow. He has lots of excuses. Solomon uses humour here. Nobody could be so slow that plants grew on his path. The truth is that the man was very lazy. The good man is like some...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 15 V1 A quiet answer reduces anger. But an impatient word increases anger....
AS A HEDGE OF THORNS. — Every difficulty in his path serves as an excuse for inaction (comp. Proverbs 22:13); while the upright man, who does his duty as in the sight of God, goes “from strength to st...
דֶּ֣רֶךְ עָ֭צֵל כִּ מְשֻׂ֣כַת חָ֑דֶק וְ אֹ֖רַ
CHAPTER 16 A PASSIONATE DISPOSITION "A soft answer turneth away wrath: but a grievous word stirreth up anger." In the LXX there is another clause inserted at the beginning.- Proverbs 15:1 "A meek t...
WORDS IN SEASON Proverbs 15:18-33 Learn to be slow to anger. This paragraph describes the even temper which is blessed to live with and blessed to die with. Temper is said to be nine-tenths of Christ...
Verse Proverbs 15:11. This is a simple method of drawing attention to God's perfect knowledge of all the deepest and hidden things. If that which is most full of mystery to us is perfectly known to Hi...
_Thorns. All seems to them impossible. (Calmet) --- In agriculture, however, (Haydock) "in domestic affairs, negligence is attended with more labour than diligence." (Colum. xii. 2.)_...
A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife. The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain. A wise son maketh a...
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 WAY OF THE SLOTHFUL [MAN IS] AS AN HEDGE OF THORNS,.... Or, "strewed with thorns", as the Septuagint and Arabic versions; the Targum is, "the ways of the slothful are briers and thorns.'' Either...
The way of the slothful [man is] as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous [is] made plain. Ver. 19. _The way of a slothful man is as a hedge of thorns._] Perplexed and letsome, so that he...
_The way of the slothful man_ The way in which he does or ought to walk; any good work which he pretends or desires to undertake; _is as a hedge of thorns_ As a way hedged up with thorns, (see Hosea 2...
V. 19. THE WAY OF THE SLOTHFUL MAN IS AS AN HEDGE OF THORNS, since he is always meeting with obstructions and hindrances; BUT THE WAY OF THE RIGHTEOUS IS MADE PLAIN, like an open highway, for his dili...
PLAIN: _ Heb._ is raised up as a causey...
THE WAY OF THE SLOTHFUL MAN, the way in which he doth or ought to walk, any good work which he pretends or desires to undertake, IS AS AN HEDGE OF THORNS; as a way hedged up with thorns, as it is expr...
Proverbs 15:19 way H1870 lazy H6102 hedge H4881 thorns H2312 way H734 upright H3477 highway H5549 (H8803)...
THE MAN OF UNDERSTANDING OVERCOMES ADVERSE CIRCUMSTANCES AND ENJOYS A LIFE OF PLEASANTNESS WHILST THE FOOL CONTINUALLY EXPERIENCES TROUBLE (PROVERBS 15:14). This subsection is in an inclusio concernin...
CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The course of the wicked man is an abomination to God, neither is there any offering he can make to God that can be accepte...
Proverbs 15:1. _A soft answer turneth away wrath._ It bows to the tempest, it names a mitigating circumstance, it gives a favourable turn to misconstruction, it proposes a better way. My father, said...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 15:19 The life of the SLUGGARD is LIKE A HEDGE OF THORNS. It is filled with one difficulty after another....
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 15:19. MADE PLAIN, “is paved,” or “is a highway.” _MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 15:19_ THE WAY OF THE SLOTHFUL AND THE RIGHTEOUS I. THE ONE THING COMMON TO THESE OPPOSITE C...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 15:1 A SOFT ANSWER TURNETH AWAY WRATH. Two things are here to be observed: an answer should be given—the injured person should not wrap himself in sullen silence; and that answer...
Fifteen. I love this first one here. A soft answer turns away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger (Proverbs 15:1). How oftentimes a person comes just raging and a soft answer turns away wrath. If...
Isaiah 30:21; Isaiah 35:8; Isaiah 57:14; Numbers 14:1; Numbers 14:7;...
An hedge — As a way hedged up with thorns, troublesome, perplexed, and full of difficulties. Plain — Is easy and pleasant to him, notwithstanding all its difficulties....