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CHAPTER 15 THE BETTER THINGS
One can read through the proverbs recorded in this chapter and ask the
question, What are the better things?
A soft answer which turneth away wrath is better than grievou...
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PROVERBS 15. This chapter makes no new departure. Proverbs concerning
the moral government of the world again occupy the chief place. One
(Proverbs 15:11) is noteworthy as showing an extended concepti...
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STRIFE. contention, or discord....
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_strife … strife_ CONTENTION … STRIFE, R.V., to indicate that the
Heb. words are different....
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TEXT Proverbs 15:12-22
12.
A scoffer loveth not to be reproved;
He will not go unto the wise.
13.
A glad heart maketh a cheerful countenance;
But by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.
14.
T...
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A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger
appeaseth strife.
A WRATHFUL MAN STIRRETH UP STRIFE - even where there was perfect
harmony. He gives occasion to, and takes up hasti...
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1. GRIEVOUS] i.e. annoying. 'If one pour in hot water let the other
pour in cold.'...
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 15
V1 A quiet answer reduces anger.
But an impatient word increases anger.
V2 A wise man’s words are full of knowledge.
A fool’s words are p...
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אִ֣ישׁ חֵ֭מָה יְגָרֶ֣ה מָדֹ֑ון וְ
אֶ֥רֶך אַ֝פַּ֗יִם יַשְׁקִ֥יט רִֽיב׃...
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CHAPTER 16
A PASSIONATE DISPOSITION
"A soft answer turneth away wrath: but a grievous word stirreth up
anger." In the LXX there is another clause inserted at the beginning.-
Proverbs 15:1
"A meek t...
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WORDS IN SEASON
Proverbs 15:18-33
Learn to be slow to anger. This paragraph describes the even temper
which is blessed to live with and blessed to die with. Temper is said
to be nine-tenths of Chris...
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Verse Proverbs 15:11. This is a simple method of drawing attention to
God's perfect knowledge of all the deepest and hidden things. If that
which is most full of mystery to us is perfectly known to Hi...
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A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger
appeaseth strife. The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of
thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain. A wise son maketh
a...
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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...
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A WRATHFUL MAN STIRRETH UP STRIFE,.... A man of a wrathful
disposition, of a furious spirit, of an angry temper; that is under
the power and dominion of such a passion, and indulges it, and takes
all...
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A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but [he that is] slow to anger
appeaseth strife.
Ver. 18. _A wrathful man stirreth up strife._] _Miscet lites,_ he
mingleth strife with his meat, and feeds upon cha...
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V. 18. A WRATHFUL MAN, one unable to keep his temper, STIRRETH UP
STRIFE, his way of acting is bound to result in quarrels; BUT HE THAT
IS SLOW TO ANGER APPEASETH STRIFE, himself refusing to become ex...
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STIRRETH UP STRIFE, because he is very apt both to give and to take
all occasions of contention....
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Proverbs 15:18 wrathful H2534 man H376 up H1624 (H8762) strife H4066
slow H750 anger H639 allays H8252 (H8686) contention H7379
wrathful - Proverbs 10:12, Proverbs 26:21, Proverbs 28:25,...
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THE MAN OF UNDERSTANDING OVERCOMES ADVERSE CIRCUMSTANCES AND ENJOYS A
LIFE OF PLEASANTNESS WHILST THE FOOL CONTINUALLY EXPERIENCES TROUBLE
(PROVERBS 15:14).
This subsection is in an inclusio concernin...
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CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: The course of the wicked man is an abomination to God,
neither is there any offering he can make to God that can be accepte...
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Proverbs 15:1. _A soft answer turneth away wrath._ It bows to the
tempest, it names a mitigating circumstance, it gives a favourable
turn to misconstruction, it proposes a better way. My father, said...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 15:17. DINNER OF HERBS, literally “a traveller’s meal.”
PROVERBS 15:18. STIRRETH UP, lit. “mixes,” implying the reciprocal
idea of giving and taking offence (Fausset).
_MA...
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 15:1
A SOFT ANSWER TURNETH AWAY WRATH. Two things are here to be observed:
an answer should be given—the injured person should not wrap himself
in sullen silence; and that answer...
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Fifteen. I love this first one here.
A soft answer turns away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger
(Proverbs 15:1).
How oftentimes a person comes just raging and a soft answer turns away
wrath. I...
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1 Samuel 25:24; 2 Samuel 19:43; 2 Samuel 20:1; Acts 6:1; Ecclesiastes
10:4; Genesis 13:8; Genesis 13:9; James 1:19; James 1:20; James 3:14;...