Proverbs 14:34
What meaning of the proverbs 14:34 in the Bible?
What does Proverbs 14:34 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people."
What does Proverbs 14:34 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people."
Verse Proverbs 14:34. _BUT SIN_ IS _A REPROACH TO ANY PEOPLE._] I am satisfied this is not the sense of the original, וחסד לאמים חטאת _vechesed_ _leummim chattath_; which would be better rendered, _A...
REPROACH - The word so rendered has this sense in the Targum of Leviticus 20:17. Its more usual meaning is “mercy,” “piety;” hence, some have attached to the word rendered “sin” the sense of “sin-offe...
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 i...
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 a...
EXALTETH... BUT, &C. Illustrations: Deuteronomy 4:6. Deu 4:28. 1 Kings 9:7; 2 Chronicles 15:3 2 Chronicles 15:5, 2 Chronicles 15:6. compare Joshua 1:8; Joshua 10:42; Joshua 23:14 with Judges 1:2, &
BUT A SIN IS A REPROACH TO ANY PEOPLE— Schultens renders this, _And the beneficence of nations is their expiation;_ which appears to be perfectly agreeable to the Hebrew: nor can there be a more pleas...
TEXT Proverbs 14:25-35 25. A true witness delivereth souls; But he that uttereth lies causeth deceit. 26. In the fear of Jehovah is strong confidence; And his children shall have a place of refu...
Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. RIGHTEOUSNESS EXALTETH A NATION: BUT SIN (IS) A REPROACH TO ANY PEOPLE - Hebrew, 'to peoples,' plural; whereas "a nation" is si...
14:34 reproach (e-9) Or 'disgrace.' peoples. (f-11) _ Leummim_ . see Psalms 2:1 ....
1. The prosperity of the family depends on the wife (Proverbs 31:10)....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 14 V1 The wise woman builds her house. The foolish woman pulls down her own house with her own hands....
RIGHTEOUSNESS. — See above, on Proverbs 10:2....
צְדָקָ֥ה תְרֹֽומֵֽם ־גֹּ֑וי וְ חֶ֖סֶד לְאֻמִּ֣ים חַטָּֽאת׃...
CHAPTER 15 THE INWARD UNAPPROACHABLE LIFE "The heart knoweth its own bitterness and a stranger doth not intermeddle with its joy."- Proverbs 14:10 "Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful, and the...
Verse Proverbs 14:7. The sense of this proverb is entirely altered in the Revision. The Authorized reading would make it mean that if a man is perceived to be devoid of knowledge he should be abandone...
_Miserable. This sentence ought to be engraven in all public places. Hebrew, "and mercy the sinful people," whom God spares on account of their alms-deeds, (Daniel iv. 24.) or "sin is the shame of peo...
He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he. Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good. In all labour there i...
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...
RIGHTEOUSNESS EXALTETH A NATION,.... Administered by the government, and exercised by subjects towards one another; doing justice between man and man: this exalts a nation, as it did the people of Isr...
Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin [is] a reproach to any people. Ver. 34. _Righteousness exalteth a nation._] True religion and the power of godliness is the beauty and bulwark of a state; Deu...
_Righteousness exalteth a nation_ A righteous administration of the government of it, impartial equity between man and man, public countenance given to religion, the general practice and profession of...
V. 34. RIGHTEOUSNESS EXALTETH A NATION, the exercise of true moral uprightness in every department of a nation's activity will set such a nation up on high, tend to give it material prosperity, for Go...
TO ANY PEOPLE: _ Heb._ to nations...
EXALTETH A NATION; maketh it honourable in the eyes of God, and of all other nations, as it did the ancient Romans. A REPROACH TO ANY PEOPLE; brings contempt and ruin upon them by provoking both God a...
Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness H6666 exalts H7311 (H8787) nation H1471 sin H2403 reproach H2617 people H3816 Righteousness - Deuteronomy 4:6-8, Deuteronomy 28:1-14; Judges 2:6-14; Jeremiah 2:2-25;...
CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The house of the wicked, though built ever so strong and high, shall be brought to disgrace and at length made extinct. The...
Proverbs 14:1. _Every wise woman buildeth her house,_ as Proverbs 9:1, by training up her children to industry, piety and virtue. She is their first governess, and daily instils the elements of knowle...
_Righteousness exalteth a nation._ THE ADVANTAGES OF RELIGION TO SOCIETIES There cannot be a greater prejudice raised against anything than to have it represented as inconvenient and hurtful to our...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 14:28 Verses Proverbs 14:28 and Proverbs 14:35, both of which concern a KING, provide a frame for this paragraph. A person must rule his HEART with WISDOM (vv. Proverbs 14:29...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 14:34. The Hebrew word for _reproach_ means also “mercy.” Hence Gejer and Miller translate “Mercy for nations is the sin-offering,” the word _sin_ being often used to expres...
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. Γυναι...
Continuation of the contrasting of goodness and evil. Every wise woman (Proverbs 14:1) And wise and foolish contrasted always, too. Every wise woman builds her house (Proverbs 14:1): She takes care...
Deuteronomy 28:1; Deuteronomy 28:15; Deuteronomy 29:18; Deuteronomy 4:6; Ezekiel 16:1; Ezekiel 23:49; Hosea 13:1; Jeremiah 2:2; Judges 2:6;...