Proverbs 27:21

As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise. (AS) THE FINING POT (CRUCIBLE) FOR SILVER (NOTE, PROVERBS 17:3 ) ... SO IS A MAN TO (ACCORDING TO; HEBREW, lªpiy (H6310 )) HIS PRAISE. As fire shows the purity, or else impurity of silver, so does praise show the virtue, or else the vanity of the man, according as he is puffed up or humble under it. The believer transfers the praise from himself to God. The unbeliever, like Herod (Acts 12:1), takes it to himself to his own hurt. Gesenius takes the "man" to be "the fining pot," or crucible, and "his praise" the metal to be tried by him. 'What a crucib...

Verse Proverbs 27:21. _AS THE FINING POT FOR SILVER_] As silver and gold are tried by the art of the refiner, so is a man's heart by the praise he receives. If he _feel_ it not, he _deserves_ it; if he be _puffed up_ by it, he is _worthless_....

SO IS ... - Better, So let a man be to his praise, let him purify it from all the alloy of flattery and baseness with which it is too probably mixed up....

EXPOSITION PROVERBS 27:1 These verses are grouped in pairs, each two being connected in subject. PROVERBS 27:1 BOAST NOT THYSELF OF TOMORROW. He boasts himself (Proverbs 25:14) of tomorrow who counts upon it presumptuously, settles that he will do this or that, as if his life was in his own power, and he could make sure of time. This is blindness and arrogance. FOR THOU KNOWEST NOT WHAT A DAY MAY BRING FORTH. Our Lord gave a lesson on this matter in the parable of the rich fool (Luke 12:1.); and an analogous warning, based on our ver

[AS] THE FINING POT FOR SILVER, AND THE FURNACE FOR GOLD,.... For the trying, proving, and purifying these metals; see Proverbs 17:3; SO [IS] A MAN TO HIS PRAISE; or "according to the mouth of his praise" p; if his own mouth praises him, as in Proverbs 27:2;, he is known to be what he is, a foolish and vainglorious person: or "so a man is proved by the mouth of him that praises him", as the Vulgate Latin version; or "of them that praise him", as the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions; and so the Targum: the meaning is, either a man is known by the persons that praise him, according to what their characters are; if he is praised by good and virtuous men, he may be thought to be so himself; and if by wicked men, he may be concluded to be so likewise; see...

Proverbs 27:1. _Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth._ Let us never boast of future days and years, or what we mean to do when we come to any age, or what shall be our position when we grow gray. Let us never boast of anything in the future, for we cannot tell what even a day may bring forth. Proverbs 27:2. _Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips._ For he who praises himself writes himself down a fool in capital letters. Proverbs 27:3. _A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both._ One might endure almost any sort of

V. INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN TO SOLOMON In the three Chapter s which follow 27-29 we find the change we have noticed before. These proverbs are addressed to a person and the phrases “My son” and the personal address, “thou,” “thy” and “thyself,” are again used in these Chapter s. Like the previous sections, so here we find instructions which were given to Solomon. CHAPTER 27 INSTRUCTIONS AND WARNINGS The opening proverb warns against procrastination. No one can be sure of what the next day may bring forth.True wisdom is not to trust the future day, for it may never come, nor are we to dwell in the past. While it is today we must live and act and leave nothing undone which can be done today. How true this is of salvation which is offered for today--now is the day of salvation. How many have been lost forever by procrastination, by thinking a more convenient time would come. Well has one said,...

A collection of aphorisms on various subjects. PROVERBS 27:3. _cf._ Sir_22:14 f. The comparison suggests that vexation is out of place. It is the fool that is a bore, not his anger. Proverbs 27:4 a Lit. ruthlessness of wrath, torrent of anger, or wrath is ruthlessness, anger a torrent. Proverbs 27:6. profuse: a doubtful translation of an obscure Heb. word, although Matthew 26:49 (viz. the force of κατὰ? in κατεφίλησεν) is quoted in support. AV deceitful depends upon an emendation following the Lat. Pr

FOR... FOR. trieth... trieth. SO IS, &C.. So doth. man put his praise to the test....

_to his praise_ The meaning is brought out more clearly in R.V. text: THE FINING POT IS FOR SILVER, AND THE FURNACE FOR GOLD, AND A MAN IS _tried_ BY HIS PRAISE: i.e. by the manner in which he bears the praise bestowed upon him. Two alternatives are given in R.V. marg.: _that which he praiseth_, or, _that whereof he boasteth:_i.e. you may test a man's character by observing what it is that he praises in others, or that he is proud of in himself. Another plausible rendering has found considerable favour: What the fining pot and the furnace are to the precious metals, that should a man be to the mouth which praises him; LIT. _to the mouth of his praise_. He should purge away from what it utters, before he accepts it, the dross of flattery and exaggeration. The first clause of this verse is identical with that of...