Proverbs 14:16

A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident. A WISE (MAN) FEARETH, AND DEPARTETH FROM EVIL - "feareth," lest he may offend God, and, through distrust of himself, keeps at the greatest distance from the contagion of sin. BUT THE FOOL RAGETH - against God, and against those who fear God and would recall him from sin. He is impatient at being checked in his course (so the Hebrew means in Deuteronomy 3:26; Psalms 78:21; cf. Proverbs 22:3). Gejer, translated [as the Hithpael of `aabar (H5674), to transgress], 'The fool makes himself...

Verse Proverbs 14:16. _A WISE_ MAN _FEARETH_] He can never _trust in himself_, though he be _satisfied from himself_. He knows that _his suffiency_ is of GOD; and he has that _fear_ that causes him to _depart from_ _evil_, which is a guardian to the _love_ he feels. Love renders him cautious; the other makes him confident. His _caution_ leads him _from sin_; his _confidence_ leads him _to God_....

EXPOSITION PROVERBS 14:1 EVERY WISE WOMAN BUILDETH HER HOUSE. Wise women order well their household matters and their families; they have an important influence, and exercise it beneficially. Γυναικὸς ἐσθλῆς ἐστὶ σώζειν οἰκίαν_._ "A good wife is the saving of a house." The versions render as above. A different pointing of the word translated "wise" (_chakhmoth_)_ _will give "wisdom" (_chokhmoth_)_, _which it seems best to read here, as the parallel to the abstract term "folly" in the second member. So we have, "Wisdom hath builded her house" (Proverbs 9:1; comp. Proverbs 1:20). Thus: "The wi

A WISE [MAN] FEARETH, AND DEPARTETH FROM EVIL,.... He fears God, and is careful not to offend him; wherefore he departs from sin, stands at a distance from it, abstains from all appearance of it; being influenced by the goodness and grace of God unto him, he fears the Lord and his goodness, and therefore avoids all occasions of sinning against him: his motive is not merely fear of punishment, as Jarchi, but a sense of goodness; and now, as it is through the influence of divine fear that men depart from evil; so to do this shows a good understanding, and that such a man is a wise man, Proverbs 16:6; BUT THE FOOL RAGETH, AND IS CONFIDENT; he fears neither God nor men, he sets his mouth against both; he "rages" in heart, if not with his mouth, against God and his law, which forbid the practice of such sins he delights in; and against all good men, that admonish him of them,

CHAPTER 14 THE WISE AND THE FOOLISH: THE RICH AND THE POOR The contrast now concerns the wise and the foolish, the rich and the poor. Let us see some of these contrasts. “In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride, but the lips of the wise shall preserve them” Proverbs 14:3. The foolish shoots forth his foolishness like a branch. Separation from the foolish man is commanded in the seventh verse. The wise cannot have fellowship with the foolish, as the believer is not to be yoked to the unbeliever. Fools make a mock at sin Proverbs 14:9). The word “sin” in the original means “trespass offering.” That is exactly what the foolish man does, including the religious fool; he denies both sin and the blessed provision God has made to deliver from the guilt and power of sin. But among the righteous, says

PROVERBS 14. In this, as in each of the preceding Chapter s in this section, aphorisms on the moral government of the world come first in number. There are rather more in this chapter of a political and social character, while a group that might be called psychological appears for the first time (_e.g._ Proverbs 14:10; Proverbs 14:13, and in part Proverbs 14:30). The contrast between wisdom and folly, simplicity and prudence, also yields a fairly numerous group. PROVERBS 14:1. MT cannot be translated. Proverbs 14:1 a is p

EVIL. Hebrew. _ra a'._ See App-44. RAGETH. rusheth on. CONFIDENT. Hebrew. _batah._ App-69....

_rageth_ Or, _beareth himself insolently_, R.V. The rendering however, _rageth_, or _loses his temper_, is borne out by Psalms 78:21; Psalms 78:59, where both A.V. and R.V. render the same Heb. word, _was wroth_....

TEXT Proverbs 14:13-24 13. Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; And the end of mirth is heaviness. 14. The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways; And a good man shall be satisfied from himself. 15. The simple believeth every word; But the prudent man looketh well to his going. 16. A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil; But the fool beareth himself insolently, and is confident. 17. He that is soon angry will deal foolishly; And a man of wicked devices is hated. 18. The simple inherit folly; But the prudent are crowned with knowledge. 19. The evil bow down before the good; And the wicked, at the gates of the righteous. 20. The poor is hated even of his own neighbor; But the rich hath many friends. 21....

1. The prosperity of the family depends on the wife (Proverbs 31:10)....