What does Proverbs 10:1 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother."
CHAPTER X _It is impossible to give summaries of such chapters as these,_ _where almost every verse contains a separate subject. Our_ _common version not being able to exhibit the contents as usual...
See the Introduction....
II. THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON: CHAPTER S 10--19:19 Beginning with the tenth chapter we have the collection of proverbs given by inspiration through Solomon. In this section the personal address, “My so...
PROVERBS 10:2 (_cf._ Psalms 3:7). RIGHTEOUSNESS: the growth of the conception of righteousness is an important subject. As in the Pss., there is a specific class the righteous opposed to the wicked. T...
_heaviness_ or _sorrow_, as the same somewhat uncommon word is rendered in Proverbs 17:21. It is perhaps significant that the first proverb deals with so fundamental a relation of human society....
THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON— Here properly the book of Proverbs begins: What has gone before is a kind of preface or introduction to the work. Solomon has exhorted his disciple to the study of wisdom, by...
CHAPTER 10 TEXT Proverbs 10:1-11 1. The Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; But a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. 2. Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; But rig...
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. Here begins the second part of the whole book, and extends to the close of Proverbs 24:1....
Here we reach the first collection of what were supposed to be Solomon's proverbs. Most of them consist of two lines parallel to each other. The parallelism is one of contrast, or agreement, or explan...
Several words in this verse contrast with other words. ‘Wise’ contrasts with ‘foolish’. ‘Father’ contrasts with ‘mother’. ‘Joy’ contrasts with ‘pain.’ It does not matter whether you are young or old....
X. 3. A COLLECTION OF 375 SEPARATE VERSES ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, MARKED BY A NEW HEADING (Proverbs 10:1 to Proverbs 22:16). (1) THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON. — The new title and different style of compositi...
מִשְׁלֵ֗י שְׁלֹ֫מֹ֥ה פ בֵּ֣ן חָ֭כָם יְשַׂמַּח ־אָ֑ב וּ בֵ֥ן כְּ֝סִ֗יל תּוּגַ֥ת אִמֹּֽו׃...
CHAPTER 11 WEALTH "Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death." Proverbs 10:2 "O'er weening statesmen have full long relied On fleets and armies and external w...
THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WICKED Proverbs 10:1-16 Wealth has its advantages, which are more than apparent. _The rich man's wealth is his strong city_, Proverbs 10:15; but the treasures which have been o...
Here begin the proverbs proper. In this collection they are antithetical, They present a sharp contrast between wisdom and folly in the outworking of such in practical life. Seeing that this is indeed...
_Mother. A virtuous child cannot be indifferent to the joy of his parents._...
CONTENTS We are now in this Chapter, entering upon the Proverbs. From this Chapter to the twenty-fifth, we meet with a great abundance of those divine sayings. The one part is descriptive of the bles...
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 follow...
THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON,.... This title is repeated from Proverbs 1:1; and very properly stands here; since here begin those pithy sentences of Solomon, which bear the name of proverbs; the preceding...
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son [is] the heaviness of his mother. Ver. 1. _The Proverbs._] Properly so called. See Proverbs 1:1. For the nine former Chapte...
_The Proverbs of Solomon_ Properly so called; for the foregoing Chapter s, although they had this title in the beginning of them, yet, in truth, were only a preparation to them, intended to stir up me...
The proverbs, maxims of instruction, of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father, one who follows the precepts of wisdom makes his father glad or happy; BUT A FOOLISH SON, one who rejects the instruct...
1 The comfort of parents much depends on their children; and this suggests to both, motives to their duties. Proverbs 10:2; Proverbs 10:3. Though the righteous may be poor, the Lord will not suffer h...
PROVERBS CHAPTER 10 From this chapter to the five and twentieth, are sundry observations of moral virtues, and their contrary vices, with excellent rules for the government of our conversation. THE PR...
Proverbs 10:1 Proverbs H4912 Solomon H8010 wise H2450 son H1121 glad H8055 (H8762) father H1 foolish H3684 son H1121 grief H8424 mother H517 proverbs - Proverbs 1:1, Proverbs 25:1; 1 Kings 4:32;...
SUBHEADING. Proverbs 10:1 ‘The Proverbs of Solomon.' Here we have the heading for this subsection. It is brief and to the point, for Solomon has already been more fully described in Proverbs 1:1. I...
FOOLISH SON A "fool" in Scripture is never a mentally deficient person, but rather one arrogant and self-sufficient; one who orders his life as if there were no God. See, for illustration, (Luke 12:1...
CONTENTS: The blessedness of the ways of righteousness and the folly of the ways of wickedness. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: The head of the just man will be crowned with the blessings both...
Proverbs 10:1. _The Proverbs of Solomon._ The nine preseding Chapter s may be regarded as a vestibule to the temple. Wisdom has been personified, and folly thrown into the darker shades. We have had a...
_A wise son maketh a glad father._ A SON’S WISDOM A FATHER’S JOY The first proverb is a characteristic specimen of its kind. It is in your power to make your father glad, and God expects you to do it...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 10:1 Proverbs 1:1 of Solomon. Here begins what may be called the “proverbs proper.” They are short, individual sayings, in contrast to the longer wisdom poems of chs. Proverb...
We here enter upon the second main division of the Book of Proverbs, which is composed of a number of distinct propositions or maxims, having but little connection with each other and answering to the...
EXPOSITION VERSE 1-22:16 PART III. FIRST GREAT COLLECTION (375) OF SOLOMONIC PROVERBS. VERSE 1-12:28 First section. The sections are noted by their commencing usually with the words, "a wise son....
Now in chapter 10 we have individual proverbs. Most of these individual proverbs are in contrast, where they are contrasting the wise with the foolish, or the wicked with the righteous. Or the diligen...
1 Kings 4:32; Ecclesiastes 12:9; Ecclesiastes 2:19; Proverbs 1:1; Proverbs 15:20; Proverbs 17:21; Proverbs 17:25; Proverbs 19:13; Proverbs 23:15;...