Proverbs 18:14
What meaning of the proverbs 18:14 in the Bible?
What does Proverbs 18:14 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?"
What does Proverbs 18:14 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?"
Verse Proverbs 18:14. _THE SPIRIT OF A MAN WILL SUSTAIN_] A man sustains the ills of his body, and the trials of life, by the strength and energy of his mind. But if the _mind_ be _wounded_, if this b...
INFIRMITY - Bodily pain or trouble. “Spirit” in the Hebrew text is masculine in the first clause, feminine in the second, as though used in the latter as having lost its strength....
CHAPTER 18 PROVERBS OF PERSONAL INSTRUCTION There is first a warning against separation produced by desire, that is for gratification and pleasure, and not for a righteous purpose. Such a one becomes...
PROVERBS 18:1. MT yields no satisfactory sense. The LXX reads The man who wishes to separate from his friends seeks pretexts, but is always liable to reproach. Frankenberg renders the alienated friend...
SPIRIT. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9. SUSTAIN, &C. Illustrations: Job (Job 1:20; Job 1:21; Job 2:8; Job 2:9; Job 2:10); Paul (2 Corinthians 12:9; Acts 22:24.Romans 5:3; Romans 5:3); Paul and Silas ...
_a wounded spirit_ If the sustaining spirit be itself wounded or broken, the burden becomes intolerable. It is the pathetic thought of "the spirit which so long bore a man's infirmity, and then at las...
DISCOURSE: 797 A WOUNDED SPIRIT Proverbs 18:14. _The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity: but a wounded spirit who can bear?_ MAN being placed in a world where troubles of various kinds contin...
WHO CAN BEAR?— Or, _Who can raise it up?_...
STUDY QUESTIONS OVER 18:13-24 1. How is it folly to him (Proverbs 18:13)? 2. How is it shame to him (Proverbs 18:13)? 3. What would a doctor get out of Proverbs 18:14? 4. Locate the parallels...
The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear? THE SPIRIT OF A MAN WILL SUSTAIN HIS INFIRMITY (OF BODY): BUT A WOUNDED SPIRIT WHO CAN BEAR? It is the office of...
18:14 bear? (c-15) Or 'can raise it up.'...
1. Lit. 'One who separates himself seeks desire, quarrels with all wisdom.' This would mean that a solitary recluse follows his own wishes and opposes everything reasonable. But LXX suggests, 'The ali...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 18 V1 An unfriendly man is selfish. He is not sensible. V2 A fool does not like knowledge. A fool likes to speak his own opinions. V3 The w...
THE SPIRIT OF A MAN. — That is, one properly so called, who draws his strength from God, will “sustain his infirmity,” help him to bear up against trouble; “but a wounded spirit” (not one crushed with...
רֽוּחַ ־אִ֭ישׁ יְכַלְכֵּ֣ל מַחֲלֵ֑הוּ וְ ר֥וּחַ נְ֝כֵאָ֗ה מִ֣י יִשָּׂאֶֽנָּה׃...
CHAPTER 19 THE EVIL OF ISOLATION "He that separates himself follows after his own desire, but against all sound wisdom he shows his teeth."- Proverbs 18:1 FROM the value of friendship there is a nat...
Verse Proverbs 18:1. The protest of this proverb is against the self-satisfaction which makes a man separate himself from the thoughts and opinions of others. Such a one finally "rages against," or "q...
The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but (h) a wounded spirit who can bear? (h) The mind can well bear the infirmity of the body, but when the spirit is wounded, it is hard to sustain....
_Infirmity of the flesh, Matthew xxvi. 41. --- That is. Theodotion, "is wounded, who shall support?"_...
The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit. Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility. He that answereth a matter before he he...
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 SPIRIT OF A MAN WILL SUSTAIN HIS INFIRMITY,.... The spirit of a mighty man, as Jarchi; a man of spirit, that has a spirit of fortitude, even of natural fortitude, and especially of Christian forti...
The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear? Ver. 14. _The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity._] Some sorry shift a man may make to bustle with, and to r...
_The spirit of a man_ That is, his soul, namely, not wounded, as appears by the opposite branch of the verse, and which is vigorous and cheerful, supported by a sense of God's love, the consciousness...
V. 14. THE SPIRIT OF A MAN WILL SUSTAIN HIS INFIRMITY, a strong and courageous mind supporting him in bodily sickness or weakness; BUT A WOUNDED SPIRIT, one bowed and broken by adversity, WHO CAN BEAR...
THE SPIRIT, i.e. the soul, to wit, which is unwounded, as appears by the opposite branch of the verse; which is vigorous and cheerful, supported by the sense of God's love, and the conscience of its o...
Proverbs 18:14 spirit H7307 man H376 sustain H3557 (H8770) sickness H4245 bear H5375 (H8799) broken H5218 spirit H7307 spirit - Job 1:20-21, Job 2:7-10; Psalms 147:3; Romans 5:3-5,...
THE TONGUE AFFECTS MAN IN MANY WAYS, MAKING HIM STRONG AND WISE, AND GIVING HIM LIFE, OR CAUSING HIM GREAT GRIEF, FINALLY RESULTING IN DEATH (PROVERBS 18:14). In this subsection we have an emphasis on...
CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The only zone of safety is the name of the Lord which is the strong tower in which one may find rest and be fortified again...
Proverbs 18:1. _Through desire a man having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom._ יתגלע _yithgalâ;_ this word occurs but thrice, and only in the book of Proverbs; viz. here, a...
_The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?_ SUSTAINING OUR INFIRMITIES The sufferings of this life are not disproportioned to our strength to bear them. And...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 18:14. INFIRMITY, _i.e._, sickness, disease of body. As in similar verses, Miller translates “A WOUNDED SPIRIT:” _a spirit of upbraiaing_. Here again, as in Proverbs 18:4, t...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 18:1 This is a difficult verse, and has obtained various interpretations. The Authorized Version gives, THROUGH DESIRE A MAN, HAVING SEPARATED HIMSELF, SEEKETH AND INTERMEDDLETH W...
Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeks and intermeddleth with all wisdom. A fool has no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself. When the wicked comes, then com...
1 Peter 1:6; 2 Corinthians 1:12; 2 Corinthians 12:10; 2 Corinthians 12:9; 2 Corinthians 2:7; James 1:2; Job 1:20; Job 1:21; Job 10:15; Job
Sustain — Will easily support him under any outward troubles. Wounded — Dejected with the sense of its own guilt and misery....