Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Proverbs 27:19
As in water face [answereth] to face, (h) so the heart of man to man.
(h) There is no difference between men by nature, only the grace of God makes the difference.
As in water face [answereth] to face, (h) so the heart of man to man.
(h) There is no difference between men by nature, only the grace of God makes the difference.
Verse Proverbs 27:19. _AS IN WATER FACE_ ANSWERETH _TO FACE_] All men's hearts are pretty nearly alike; water is not more like to water, than one heart is to another. Or, as a man sees his face perfe...
As we see our own face when we look on the mirror-like surface of the water, so in every heart of man we may see our own likeness. In spite of all diversities we come upon the common human nature in w...
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...
MAN... MAN. Hebrew. _'adam._ App-14....
in _water_ This rendering of A.V., which is retained in R.V. text, gives a good and pregnant meaning: As truly as the face seen in the water resembles the face of which it is the reflection, so truly...
DISCOURSE: 813 THE HEARTS OF MEN ALIKE Proverbs 27:19. _As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man_. THERE are many things which are justly considered as axioms, of the truth of w...
AS IN WATER, &C.— Dr. Grey says, this should be rendered, _As the water showeth the face to the face, so doth the heart the man to the man._ The meaning is, that a man may know what character he deser...
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...
As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man. AS IN WATER FACE (ANSWERETH) TO FACE, SO THE HEART OF MAN TO MAN. The same face which you show to the water, it reflects back to you:...
Judge another by yourself....
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...
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....
We see our own good and bad qualities when we notice the same qualities in other people....
SO THE HEART OF MAN (answereth) TO MAN. — What is in our own hearts we find in others also. Whatever are the distinguishing features of our own characters we discover and elicit the same in others. Th...
כַּ֭ † מַּיִם הַ פָּנִ֣ים לַ †...
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...
“HEARTY COUNSEL” Proverbs 27:1-22 The keyword in this paragraph is _friends_, Proverbs 27:6; Proverbs 27:9-10; Proverbs 27:14; Proverbs 27:17; Proverbs 19:1-29. Friends, according to the original se...
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...
_Are. Hebrew, "to men." Our hearts have all something similar. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "as faces are not like each other, so neither are the hearts of men." They have all come peculiarity. (Haydock)...
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...
AS IN WATER FACE [ANSWERETH] TO FACE,.... As water is as a looking glass, in which a man may behold his own face and another's; or as the face in the water answers to the face of a man, and there is a...
As in water face [answereth] to face, so the heart of man to man. Ver. 19. _As in water face answereth to face, &c._] Men's fancies differ as much as their faces: so the Chaldee interprets it. But th...
_As in water face answereth to face_ As the image of a man's face in the water answers to his natural face who looks into it; or, as in water one man's face is like another's, the difference of men's...
As in water face answereth to face, the surface of the water acting as a mirror which reflects all objects, SO THE HEART OF MAN TO MAN, being mirrored in that of his fellow, a true knowledge of men be...
WISDOM AND HUMILITY GO HAND IN HAND...
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 sense is either, 1. As the image of a man's face in the water answers to his natural face who looks into it; or, as in water one man's face is like another s, the difference of men's faces being...
Proverbs 27:19 water H4325 face H6440 face H6440 mans H120 heart H3820 man H120 in -...
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...
_As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man._ MIRROR OF HUMAN NATURE As a man looking into the water (used anciently as a mirror) sees an exact transcript of his own countenance,...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 27:19 Just as WATER reflects a person’s actual appearance, so the HEART reflects a person’s true nature (v....
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 27:19_ A CORRECT LIKENESS I. A MIRROR IN WHICH WE MAY SEE THE REFLECTION OF THE HEARTS OF OTHERS. All the knowledge that we have of our own personal appearance is gained...
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...
Genesis 6:5; James 1:22; Mark 7:21; Psalms 33:15...
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...
So — So one man resembles another in the corruption of his nature....