Proverbs 10:2

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death. TREASURES OF WICKEDNESS PROFIT NOTHING: BUT RIGHTEOUSNESS DELIVERETH FROM DEATH. "Profit nothing" - namely, TREASURES OF WICKEDNESS PROFIT NOTHING: BUT RIGHTEOUSNESS DELIVERETH FROM DEATH. "Profit nothing" - namely, in the day of wrath (); or at death, as the parallel clause suggests. They did not profit the rich fool so as to deliver him from the second death, which is death indeed (Luke 12:19). All the profit that Ahab got out of Naboth's vineyard was the curse of God (). Judas' thirty pieces of silver, gained by betraying the Lord, were the source of despair and remorse, ending in suicide and etern...

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 him to want what is needful for spiritual life. Proverbs 10:4. Those who are fervent in spirit, serving the Lord, are likely to be rich in faith, and rich in good works. Proverbs 10:5. Here is just blame of those who trifle away opportunities, both for here and for hereafter. Proverbs 10:6. Abundance of blessings shall abide on good men; real blessings....

Verse Proverbs 10:2. _TREASURES OF WICKEDNESS_] Property gained by wicked means. _DELIVERED FROM DEATH_] Treasures gained by robbery often bring their possessors to an untimely death; but those gained by righteous dealing bring with them no such consequences....

RIGHTEOUSNESS - Including, perhaps, the idea of benevolence. Compare the use of δικαιοσύνη _dikaiosunē_, in Matthew 6:1 (the older reading), and 2 Corinthians 9:9....

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." PROVERBS 10:1 THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON. This is the title of the new part of the book; it is omitted in the Septuagint. There is some kind of loose connection in the grouping of these proverbs, but it is difficult to follow. "Ordo frustra quaeritur ubi nullus fuit observatus," says Mart. Geier. Wordsworth considers the present chapter to contain exemplifications of the principles and results of the two ways of life displayed in the preceding nine chapters. The antitheti

TREASURES OF WICKEDNESS PROFIT NOTHING,.... By which are meant either a large abundance of riches in general, which for the most part are enjoyed by wicked men, and abused to wicked purposes, Proverbs 11:4; or an affluence of them, obtained in a wicked way, by fraud, oppression, and the like; see Micah 6:10; Or are either not used at all, or put to wicked uses: what are not used profit not the possessors of them, for they are "kept to the hurt of the owners" of them; and those which are got by ill means, or put to an ill use, "perish by evil travel", Ecclesiastes 5:13. Nor can anyone by his riches either redeem himself or his brother from destruction, or give to God a ransom for him; nor can he by them save himself fr

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 son,” and the personal exhortations are missing. It will be noticed that each verse in this section contains a proverb, consisting each of two lines, mostly of an antithetic character, except Proverbs 19:7, which has three lines instead of two (a tristich). It is impossible to give a detailed analysis of these Chapter s, nor can we take up each proverb separately for meditation. This must be left to each reader. By comparing Scripture with Scripture, and a prayerful study of these terse sayings, the heavenly wisdom given in these Chapter s can readily be found. There is no end to practical application. Yet even in these Chapter s a certain order is maintained. The contrast in each chap

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. The righteous are generally synonymous with the poor and afflicted remnant, sometimes equivalent to the Hasidim of the Greek period. In general the tendency of the conception of righteousness is towards a specific moral character, rather than towards the fulfilment of legal duties. This is important in view of the implied contrast in the Synoptic Gospels between the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, and such a righteousness as our Lord taught to be the condition of entrance into the kingdom of God (_cf._ Matthe

WICKEDNESS. lawlessness. Hebrew. _rasha'._ App-44. PROFIT NOTHING. Illustrations: Rehoboam (2 Chronicles 12:1; 2 Chronicles 12:9); Gehazi (2 Kings 5:20; 2 Kings 21:6); Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 4:31; Daniel 4:33. Belshazzar (Daniel 5); the Rich FoolLuk 12:20, Luke 12:21. Compare...

_Treasures of wickedness … righteousness_ The contrast would seem to be between "wickedness" in its highest prosperity and success, when it has amassed "treasures," when it has "found all precious substance and filled the house with spoil" (Proverbs 1:13), and "righteousness," in itself considered, independently of the consequences which may attach to it. Comp. Proverbs 11:4....