Proverbs 28:4
What meaning of the proverbs 28:4 in the Bible?
What does Proverbs 28:4 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them."
What does Proverbs 28:4 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them."
Verse Proverbs 28:4. _THEY THAT FORSAKE THE LAW_] He that transgresses says, in fact, that it is _right to transgress_; and thus other wicked persons are _encouraged_....
CHAPTER 28 WARNINGS AND INSTRUCTIONS CONTINUED The wicked is a coward; the righteous man, because he trusteth in the Lord and knows the Lord is on his side, is as bold as a lion. It is the conscience...
SECOND DIVISION, PROVERBS 28 F. In general character this division resembles Section II., consisting chiefly of antithetic couplets. PROVERBS 28:2 B. The text is uncertain, and various renderings ar...
PRAISE THE WICKED. praise. lawless one. Illustrations: Saul (1 Samuel 23:21); Absalom (2 Samuel 15:6); Judah's nobles (Nehemiah 6:19); false prophets (Jeremiah 5:30; Jeremiah 5:31); Jews (Acts 12:21)....
_the law_ not in its Jewish form, "The Law," sc. of Moses, but in its wider sense; and so in Proverbs 28:7_; Proverbs 28:9_, below. See Introd. p. 13....
DISCOURSE: 814 THE EFFECTS OF PIETY AND IMPIETY IN THE WORLD Proverbs 28:4. _They that forsake the Law, praise the wicked; but such as keep the Law, contend with them_. MAN, as a social being, has an...
CHAPTER 28 TEXT Proverbs 28:1-9 1. The wicked flee when no man pursueth; But the righteous are bold as a lion. 2. For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof; But by men of under...
They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them. THEY THAT FORSAKE THE LAW PRAISE THE WICKED - naturally, as resembling themselves. By praises of the wicked on...
OBSERVATIONS RELATING CHIEFLY TO SOCIAL LIFE 2. Cp. the many changes of rulers during the unsatisfactory period described in 2K15....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 28 V1 A wicked person runs away, even if nobody is chasing him. But good people are as bold as lions. V2 A country of evil people has many ru...
THEY THAT FORSAKE THE LAW PRAISE THE WICKED. — The mark of extreme wickedness. (Comp. Romans 1:32.) BUT SUCH AS KEEP THE LAW CONTEND WITH THEM. — Just as the sight of ill-doing was the one thing whic...
עֹזְבֵ֣י תֹ֭ורָה יְהַֽלְל֣וּ רָשָׁ֑ע וְ שֹׁמְרֵ֥י תֹ֝ורָ֗ה יִתְגָּ֥רוּ בָֽם׃ פ...
CHAPTER 29 AN ASPECT OF ATONEMENT "He that hideth his transgressions shall not prosper; but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall obtain mercy."- Proverbs 28:13 "Happy is the man that feareth a...
Verse Proverbs 28:2. "The transgression of a land" must be understood as the opposite of the "state shall be prolonged." Then the proverb means that a multiplicity of princes is an evil, but men of un...
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...
THEY THAT FORSAKE THE LAW PRAISE THE WICKED,.... Who are like them; who forsake and transgress the law, as they do; every like loves its like; wicked men delight in sin, the transgression of the law,...
They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them. Ver. 4. _They that forsake the law praise the wicked._] As Machiavel doth Caesar Borgia, that _bipedum nequiss...
_They that forsake the law_ That live in contempt of, and disobedience to, God's law; _praise the wicked_ Honour their persons, freely and familiarly associate themselves with them, and approve of the...
THE CONSEQUENCES OF IMPIETY...
IF we HAVE SEEN in chapter 27 the blessing of God and refuge in the sanctuary, chapter 28, a fourth section. brings our feet abruptly back to the wilderness path, where walk and ways must be tested by...
THEY THAT FORSAKE THE LAW, that live in the contempt of and disobedience to God's law, PRAISE THE WICKED; honour their persons, contrary to PSALMS 15:4; freely and familiarly associate themselves with...
Proverbs 28:4 forsake H5800 (H8802) law H8451 praise H1984 (H8762) wicked H7563 keep H8104 (H8802) law H8451 contend H1624 (H8691) that - 1 Samuel 23:19-21; Psalms 10:3, Psalms 49:18;...
CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: True religion is true wisdom, making men wise in every relation. Those who make conscience of God's law will find a security in the...
Proverbs 28:2. _By a man of understanding the state shall be prolonged._ Who can value the Samuels in Israel; the Gracchuses in Rome; the Walpoles, the Chathams in England? In Lord Chatham's time it w...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 28:2 Righteous individuals are essential for a just society. When many individuals are unjust, particularly those with power, all of society will suffer. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images =...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 28:5. JUDGMENT, or, “what is right” _(Delitzsch)_. PROVERBS 28:6. PERVERSE, etc., literally, “he who is crooked in two ways.” Delitzsch translates, “_a double-going deceive...
EXPOSITION This chapter is still part of the Hezekiah collection, and not a new series by another author. It may be regarded as describing the various destinies of the powerful and the weak, the sinn...
Twenty-eight: The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are as bold as a lion (Proverbs 28:1). The contrast of the wicked and the righteous. We had an awful lot of that early in the pr...
1 John 4:5; 1 Kings 18:18; 1 Kings 18:21; 1 Kings 20:41; 1 Kings 20:42; 1 Kings 21:19; 1 Kings 21:20; 1 Kings 22:19; 1 Samuel 15:14;...
DIVINE CONTRASTS Proverbs 28:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We have another one of Solomon's messages which God gave to him. We will bring out several statements in the beginning of the chapter. 1. A CONTRA...
Contend — Are so far from praising them, that they severely reprove them....