Proverbs 24:13

My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste: EAT THOU HONEY, BECAUSE IT IS GOOD (A GRACIOUS INVITATION TO PARTAKE OF THE SPIRITUAL HONEY, ; PSALMS 19:9 ; ): SO SHALL THE KNOWLEDGE OF WISDOM BE UNTO THY SOUL - at once sweet and profitable. WHEN THOU HAST FOUND IT ( ; ), THEN THERE SHALL BE A REWARD (OR END: A REWARD AT THE END OF THE WORK), AND THY EXPECTATION SHALL NOT BE CUT OFF - ...

Verse Proverbs 24:13. _AND THE HONEY-COMB_] I have often had occasion to remark how much finer the flavour of honey is in the honey-comb than it is after it has been _expressed_ from it, and exposed to the action of the air. But it has been asserted that the _honey-comb_ is _never eaten_; it must be by those who have no acquaintance with the _apiary_. I have seen the _comb_ with its contained honey eaten frequently, and of it I have repeatedly partaken. And that our Lord ate it, is evident from Luke 24:42. Nor can any man who has not eaten it in this way feel the full force of the allusions to the _honey-comb_ and its _sweetness_ in several parts of the sacred writings. See 1 Samuel...

Honey entered largely into the diet of Hebrew children Isaiah 7:15, so that it was as natural an emblem for the purest and simplest wisdom, as the “sincere milk of the word” was to the New Testament writers. The learner hears what seems to be a rule of diet - then Proverbs 24:14 the parable is explained....

EXPOSITION PROVERBS 24:1 We return here to the more usual form, the tetrastich. BE NOT THOU ENVIOUS AGAINST EVIL MEN (see on Proverbs 23:17, where a similar warning is given, and comp. Proverbs 23:19 below). "Men of wickedness," wholly given over to evil. NEITHER DESIRE TO BE WITH THEM. Their company is pollution, and association with them makes you a partner in their sinful doings. The Septuagint prefaces the paragraph with the personal address, υἱέ_ _"son." PROVERBS 24:2 For their heart studie

MY SON, EAT THOU HONEY, BECAUSE [IT IS] GOOD,.... It is good for food; there was plenty of it in Palestine, and it was eaten for food, not only by children, but grown persons; and was very nourishing, strengthening, and refreshing to them, as Samson, Jonathan, John the Baptist, and others; and is good for medicine, is healthful and salutary, and useful in many diseases: it is said m to conduce much to prolong life and preserve from diseases; it has been observed that those who have much used it have lived to a great age; AND THE HONEYCOMB, [WHICH IS] SWEET TO THY TASTE; because it is so, as all honey is, and especially that which is immediately squeezed or drops from the honeycomb; this is said not so much on account of honey, and the eating of that, as for what follows concerning the knowledge of wisdom, which is comparable to it for pleasure and profit; see...

CHAPTER 24 INSTRUCTIONS CONTINUED In the final instructions of this chapter we find first a description of the evil men. Their heart studieth destruction; their lips talk mischief. This theme is repeatedly referred to in this chapter. In Proverbs 24:15 the evil man is addressed not to lay wait for the righteous and not to spoil his resting place. The Lord takes care of the righteous; he may be overcome by misfortunes seven times, yet will he rise again. Different it is with the wicked when he falls into mischief. Yet there must be no rejoicing over the fall of the enemy, nor gladness when he stumbled. This displeaseth the Lord. Still higher is the command of the New Testament, “Love your enemies; ... recompense no man evil for evil; ... overcome evil with good.” There is to be no fretting because of evil men nor envy ...

PROVERBS 24:7 A. Lit. Wisdom is corals to the fool. RV involves a change m the text, which gives perhaps the best sense that can be made of an obviously corrupt stanza. Proverbs 24:9. thought: the word means plan or device, and is used in both a good and a bad sense in Pr. Here the meaning is that sin is the kind of plan which folly engages in, sin is folly's plan. Proverbs 24:10. An incomplete aphorism. As it stands its probable meaning is, If thou art slack, thy strength will be narrow (_i.e._ restricted) in the day of trouble. Proverbs 24:11 f. The Heb. is not unambiguous and shows

MY SON. Confirming the Structure (p. 891)....

MY SON, EAT THOU HONEY, &C.— It is well known in how high esteem honey was among the ancients for food, for drink, for medicine, for preserving of dead bodies, and particularly for infants. See Isaiah 7:15. Sir 39:26. Hence the ancient Christians used to give a little milk and honey to those who were baptized, as persons newly regenerate and born again; because honey, as well as milk, was the nutriment of little children in those countries. See 1 Samuel 14:27. Luke 24:41. All this may be applied to wisdom, from whence the mind derives the greatest satisfaction; and therefore it ought to be our daily diet, our sweetest refreshment, from the beginning of our days to the end of the

TEXT Proverbs 24:13-22 13. My son, eat thou honey, for it is good; And the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to thy taste: 14. So shalt thou know wisdom to be unto thy soul; If thou hast found it, then shall there be a reward, And thy hope shall not be cut off. 15. Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous; Destroy not his resting-place. 16. For a righteous man falleth seven times, and riseth up again; But the wicked are overthrown by calamity. 17. Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, And let not thy heart be glad when he is overthrown; 18. Lest Jehovah see it, and it displease him, And he turn away his wrath from him. 19. Fret not thyself because of evildoers; Neither be thou envious at the wicked: 20....