Proverbs 3:5

Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL THINE HEART; AND LEAN NOT UNTO THINE OWN UNDERSTANDING - which latter cannot preserve thee. He guards against his recommendation of "good understanding" (a different Hebrew term from that here, which is binath) in being perverted into a ground for self-reliance. Begin with the Lord in the pursuit whether of knowledge or wealth. While you use all exertions of head and hands, regard God as all-sufficient for thee, as to obtaining every good and averting every evil. "Rest in Him," assured of His gracious will and power to save and help thee in all exigencies (). Casting every burden on Him (;...

1-6 In the way of believing obedience to God's commandments health and peace may commonly be enjoyed; and though our days may not be long upon earth, we shall live for ever in heaven. Let not mercy and truth forsake thee; God's mercy in promising, and his truth in performing: live up to them, keep up thine interest in them, and take the comfort of them. We must trust in the Lord with all our hearts, believing he is able and wise to do what is best. Those who know themselves, find their own understandings a broken reed, which, if they lean upon, will fail. Do not design any thing but what is lawful, and beg God to direct thee in every case, though it may seem quite plain. In all our ways that prove pleasant, in which we gain our point, we must acknowledge God with thankfulness. In all our ways that prove uncomfortable, and that are hedged up with thorns, we must acknowledge him with subm...

Verse Proverbs 3:5. _TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL THINE HEART_] This is a most important precept: 1. God is the _Fountain_ of all good. 2. He has made his intelligent creatures _dependent_ upon himself. 3. He requires them to be _conscious_ of that dependence. 4. He has _promised_ to communicate what they need. 5. He commands them to _believe_ his promise, and look for its fulfilment. 6. And to do this without doubt, fear, or distrust; "with their whole heart." _LEAN NOT UNTO THINE OWN UNDERSTANDING_] אל תשען _al tishshaen_, do not _prop_ thyself. It is on GOD, not on _thyself_, that thou art commanded to _depend_. He who trusts in his own heart is a fool....

In preaching “trust in God” the moralist anticipates the teaching that man is justified by faith. To confide in God’s will, the secret of all true greatness, is to rise out of all our anxieties and plans and fears when we think of ourselves as the arbiters of our own fortunes, and so “lean to our own understanding.”...

EXPOSITION PROVERBS 3:1 4. _Fourth admonitory discourse. _The third chapter introduces us to a group of admonitions, and the first of these (Proverbs 3:1) forms the fourth admonitory discourse of the teacher. To all intents and purposes this is a continuation of the discourse in the preceding chapter, for inasmuch as that described the benefits, spiritual and moral, which follow from the pursuit of Wisdom, in promoting godliness and providing safety from evil companions, so this in like manner depicts the gain flowing from Wisdom, the happiness of the man who finds Wisdom, and the favour which he meets with both with God and man. The discourse embraces exhortations to obedience ...

TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL THINE HEART,.... Not in a creature, the best, the holiest, and the highest; not in any creature enjoyment, as riches, strength, and wisdom; nor in any outward privilege, arising from natural descent and education; not in a man's self, in his own heart, which is deceitful; nor in any works of righteousness done by him; not in a profession of religion, or the duties of it, ever so well performed; not in frames, nor in graces, and the exercise of them; no, not in faith or trust itself: but in the Lord, the object of all grace, and in him only; in Jehovah the Father, as the God of nature and providence, for all temporal blessings; and as the God of all grace, for all spiritual blessings, and all the needful supplies of grace; and for eternal happiness, which he has provided, promised, and freely gives. Trust in him at all times; in times of affliction, temptation,...

TRUST (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 2:12). _...

CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The call and promise of wisdom (Proverbs 3:1)_ 2. Happy is the man that findeth wisdom (Proverbs 3:11) 3. Promise and instruction (Proverbs 3:21) Proverbs 3:1. The call to obedience is followed by promise. The promise is like all the promises to an earthly people “for length of days and long life”. Here are some blessed exhortations loved and cherished by all His people (Proverbs 3:5). How happier, and more fruitful the children of God would be if they obeyed constantly this instruction: “in all thy

FOURTH Discourse. The sage exhorts the young man to heed his oral instruction (_torah),_ and to trust in Yahweh, fear Him, and honour Him in the prescribed manner of firstfruits. It is interesting to find _torah_ used in its earlier prophetic sense of oral instruction, without reference to its later sense of the whole body of legislation represented by the Pentateuch. The torah of the wise man represents not his own individual authority, but the accumulated wisdom of experience. The torah of the prophet, although delivered in the name of Yahweh, represents ultimately the accumulated moral consciousness of the nation; while the torah of the priest in its later form at least represents the traditional and inherited ritual, the prescribed method of the cultus. Hence the primary idea of torah is the same in all three forms. (See pp. 121, 620, Deuteronomy 1:5 *, and for a fuller disc

TRUST. Confide. Hebrew. _batah._ App-69. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. WITH ALL THINE HEART. Illustrations: Abraham (Genesis 24:1. compare Proverbs 19:14); Eleazar (Genesis 24:12); Jephthah (Judges 11:11); David (1 Samuel 30:6); Asa (2 Chronicles 14:9); Hezekiah (2 Kings 18:4;...