There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death. Proverbs 14:12. He flees to it for refuge as to a strong city; but it is so only "in his own conceit" or imagination. If a man, therefore, desires to avoid harm to body, mind, and soul, he must set himself to acquire knowledge both in relation to things material and spiritual. A pretty thing for him to cavil! They bring contempt, not to themselves only, but to the places they fill, and the societies to which they become unitedto themselves, for the unworthy manner in which they fulfil the duties of the trust they have assumed, or have had committed to them; and to their places and societies, with which their names are associated. They say, possibly, they must take care; but they only say it, and immediately forget it. Proverbs 11:28. March 12. Proverbs 2:7), yielding the sense the lost man sits careless to what is stable. He does not regard it. and it is equally true that no man is possessed of true wisdom who has not some knowledge of God as He has revealed Himself in the written Word, and solitude is very favourable to a growth in Divine knowledge. 4. 17, Proverbs 17:15 and Proverbs 17:26. Many of those who fawned upon them and flattered them while they were prospering will be most ready to scorn and upbraid them, if the day of their retribution arrives before they quit this world. 2 Fools care nothing for thoughtful discourse; all they do is run off at the mouth. The rule was examined, and the discovery was made that the old man, with his defective eyesight, had drawn the cord through the wrong slit at the top of the instrument, and then from some cause which I cannot explain, using only one side of it, had never detected his mistake. It is on some such principle that people err in preparing a representation of their own case. Others have been honored for their kind and wise . That this is by no means the rule we have many proofs, but that the tendency is strong we know not only from observation but from the frequent warnings against it in the Word of God. Time has crumbled their once mighty walls, and made them unfit for purposes of defence. I. Polygamy cannot be recommended by those who have practised it. The self-conceited man assumes a very sagacious and penetrating looksits down with apparent determination to hear out the cause on both sides, and to judge righteous judgment. But it is hardly well begun, when the self-conceited man sees to the end of it. It is surprising with what agility this spirit of self-conceit gets over difficulties. Secularly, this is beyond a doubt; judicially, here is a great outrage; socially, a something very impolite; but religiously, a thing altogether a shame. Men born yesterday might certainly afford to listen. I shall always endeavour to make choice of such a woman for my spouse who hath first made choice of Christ as a spouse for herself; that none may be made one flesh with me who is not made one spirit with Christ my Saviour. He has before mentioned some of its advantages (see chap. Words will bring a person good or ill, depending on what they mean and how they are spoken (19-21). There is much to be wrought, gained, and enjoyed. Like the apostles of old, he cannot but speak the things which he has seen and heard (Acts 4:20). But suppose your eyes are bad. The man who seeks contention will alway find others like-minded with himself who will be willing to do for him what he has done for others, and he who calls for strokes upon his fellow-creatures will receive them upon his own head with compound interest. He that was pleased to make the Sabbath of rest, is also pleased with those who make a Sabbath of peace. Well, you're not you're not showing yourself friendly. by verse bible commentary studylight org expositor s bible commentary apps on google . III. How often may it be seen, that with means of a very limited and stinted amount, there is more of spiritual prosperity in one instance, than is discoverable in another, with means the most varied and abundant. There is in the wise a love of knowledge, and an application of the mental powers for its attainment. But it is pre-eminently the godly man who can sustain infirmity of body. This thought is still clearer in the verse that follows:Death and life are in the power (literally the hand) of the tongue. There can be no doubt that mens conduct (for tongue is but the leading instrument of it) determines death or life, yet, in spite of the adventurous hazard, their love to it (or literally, just as they love this or that sort of tongue), they shall eat its fruit, and incur, of course, fearful responsibilities.Miller. Control. Those who trust in God know they are safe, but those who trust in their wealth only think they are safe. These names are often borne by men who are destitute of the qualifications and feelings proper to the relationships which they express, but when any one of them is applied to God it is applied to one who combines within Himself all those attributes of character in perfection which ought to be possessed in some degree by men who are called by these names. Verse 1. Between (1) blaming and (2) commending the life of isolation, the decision must be that (1) is most in harmony with the temper of the Book of Proverbs; but it is not strange that Pharisaism, in its very name, separating and self-exalting, should have adopted (2). 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Through desire (through self-willed and self-seeking desire of wisdom)wisdom, Heb. David has recorded as his experience that he had seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay-treebut he passed by, and lo, he was not (Psalms 37:35). As brothers are the children of a common parent, so sloth and waste have their root in the common sin of ungodliness; men are spendthrifts or they are lazy, because they have no right sense of their obligations to God and to manbecause they do not look upon their life as a stewardship for which they must give an account (Romans 14:12), but as a gift which they are at liberty to spend as they please. That it prevents waste of time. Proverbs 16:4 is . Wisdom must be reduced to practice in sinking the shaft and in working the mine before the hidden wealth is brought to light to enrich its owner. Some take it as a rebuke to an affected singularity. Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee (Ezekiel 3:22). And this is the meaning. When men take a pride in separating themselves from the sentiments and society of others, in contradicting all that has been said before them and advancing new notions of their own, which, though ever so absurd, they are wedded to, it is to gratify a desire or lust of vain-glory, and they are seekers and meddlers with that which does not belong to them. But these human vipers infuse their poison in the language of kindness and love. It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment. Natural or acquired eagerness of spirit, and impatience of protracted inquiry. So she sent the little girl out and she got into this psyche books on how to explain the facts of life to your child and all and boned them all up. Pride first, then the crash, but humility is precursor to honor. A man who isolates himself seeks his own desire: To cut one's self off from family, friends, and community is often to express a selfish desire. And then, when we look around us into the infinitely extended field of the Revelation of God, what a world of heavenly wisdom is there to intermeddle with! Stops the argument. But yet where the spring of those waters is a well-spring of wisdom, though sometimes it send forth deep waters, yet it doth not always; for that were to overwhelm the hearers. Novalis. esther job psalms proverbs ecclesiastes song of solomon isaiah jeremiah lamentations ezekiel The painter that has conceived a picture in his mind, and then, seeing it upon canvas, thinks of the many eyes who will gaze upon it with interest, and of those who perchance will be elevated and instructed by it, feels a satisfaction in the thought that it owes its existence to himthat without the working of his brain and hand it would not have been. Satisfied. When God bestows upon one man capabilities and endowments far above the common order, He does not intend to bless that man alone by the gift, but he holds him responsible for the use of the power put into his handHe expects him so to employ his talents that his fellow-men also may be blessed by the gift. Many men seek secular knowledge for the sole purpose of acquiring fame by the acquisition. . A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled ( Proverbs 18:20 ). So the needle that draws the thread through the cloth is some means to join it together.. This is, I think, quite an important proverb, the next one. than to o divide the spoil with the proud. Proverbs 18:1. The one has been compared to a man who dies by a rapid and violent disease, and the other by a slow and subtle consumption. How full is Church history of this deplorable evil!and how many infidels and scorners has Church history by this means produced. Seeing, then, what issues of life and death are dependent upon this king, it is manifest that men should keep him in absolute control; if so much depends upon his action he ought to be under the strictest supervision. The need of cross-examinationof another to come and search him. Questioning may not convict the first person of any mis-statement, but it may elicit other facts which give quite a different colouring to the whole. How true this is, men for the first time in a court can easily imagine. Call upon the LORD in your troubles, and let Him rescue you ( Ps 18:1-6 ). This is a beautiful fact. If a lot have erred, it is when mens understanding could have put things right, for God, having given power to men, He looks that men should use it. Proverbs 18:1. It may be taken by superior physical force, it may be surprised and captured, or its inhabitants may be starved into a surrender. Click to donate today! Through desire a man having separated himself, seeketh,. Or, "a separated man seeketh desire" g; his own desire, will, and pleasure. Bereavement, the faithlessness of friends, disappointed hopes, often deeply wound the spirit, yet men bear these wounds and often are made better and stronger by them. One of the many temptations of wealth. We must try to fathom the profound meaning which is hidden under this simple but striking proverb. And as the ear is one of the great inlets to instruction, it may here, with propriety, be considered as comprehending all the ways in which knowledge may be acquired.Wardlaw. Proverbs 17. He that hath commanded to cease from labour, hath much more commanded to cease from strife. Proverbs 18:14. The arms of strength that defend the children of God are everlasting arms (Deuteronomy 33:7). Through desire a man, having separated himself The original is difficult and obscure. There is no anguish to that of the conscience: A wounded spirit who can bear? It prevents waste of human life. This is either to be understood in a good sense, of one that has a real and hearty desire after sound wisdom and knowledge, and seeks in the use of all proper means to attain it; and in order to which he separates himself from the world and the business of it, and retires to his study, and gives up himself to reading, meditation, and prayer; or goes abroad in search of it, as Aben Ezra: or of a vain man that affects singularity; and who, through a desire of gratifying that lust, separates himself, not only from God, as Jarchi interprets it, pursuing his evil imagination and the lust of his heart; and from his friends, as the Septuagint and Arabic versions; but from all men, like the Jews, who "please not God, and are contrary to all men"; so such a man sets himself to despise and contradict the sentiments and opinions of others, and to set up his own in opposition to them. Whereas impatiency for anything that is lost taketh away the comfort of all that remaineth, yea, the comfort of thine own self.Jermin. Coverdale thus: "Who so hath pleasure to sowe discorde, piketh a quarrel in every thinge. The words bring out and contain the counsel.Wardlaw. The words of the wise bring refreshment, but those of a fool or a gossip bring destruction (4-8).Those who leave work undone are almost as bad as those who wreck what already has been done (9). II. The power of words over those who hear them. Wealth is a fortress with a most uncertain foundation. If he were to give his opinion upon a building as soon as the builders had dug out the foundation, or were to criticise a picture when the artist had only sketched its outline upon his canvas, he would be deemed a fool, and what he said would have no weight whatever. 3. Heads, we will. That great abilities are gifts from God. Disease and death cannot be turned aside with moneya troubled soul cannot be comforted with gold. All heresy has more or less originated in the self-conceit which leads men to separate themselves from the congregation of the Lord (Ezekiel 14:7; Hosea 9:10; Hebrews 10:25). a. He is filled with the increase of his skilful hand. If we have to decide between the two interpretations, one blaming and the other commending the life of isolation, the answer must be that the former is more in harmony with the broad, genial temper of the Book of Proverbs.Plumptre. The wife of Potiphar seemed just in her cause when she declared that Joseph left his garment in her hand and fled. This is true of the Pharisees among the Jews, who had their name from separating themselves from all others, having an high opinion of their own Wisdom and sanctify; and also of the Gnostics among the Christians, who boasted of their knowledge, and separated themselves from the Christian assemblies; and were sensual, not having the Spirit, being vainly puffed up with their fleshly mind; [and] intermeddleth with all wisdom; the man who is desirous of being truly wise and knowing grasps at all wisdom, every branch of useful knowledge; would gladly learn something of every art and science worthy of regard; and he makes use of all means of improving himself therein; and covets the company and conversation of men of wisdom and knowledge, that he may attain to more; he intermingles himself with men of wisdom, as Aben Ezra interprets it, and walks and converses with them. A man, when he is alone, is more likely to see things as they really are; he is less under the influence of the seen and temporal than when he is in the market, or on the crowded highway, and consequently things unseen and eternal have a more powerful influence over him at such a season. It is not enough to be active, but he must see that his actions are wisely directed, that the means are adapted to the end in view. Exalt thyself; He'll abase you. And if he desire to acquire what, after all, can alone make him a truly wise manan acquaintance with himself and with Godhe must have seasons of separation in which to listen to the voice of his own heart and to the voice of His maker. The spirit of a man That is, the rational soul; is the candle, &c. Is a clear and glorious light, set up in man for his information and direction. The cold-hearted, speculative professor has his flowsometimes a torrent of words, yet without a drop of profitable matter; chilling, even when doctrinally correct; without life, unction, or love. Everything here calls for our deepest, closest thoughts. But it is not so easy to capture a human heartan angry brother must be subdued by different means, and by weapons which require more skilful handling. Play Audio: Your speech will either help or hurt you (Pr 10:14; 12:14; 13:2-3; 18:6-7,23). The one when he speaketh is not understood by the ear, the other when he speaketh is not understood by the heart: the words of the one are not apprehended, the wants of the other are not apprehended; the one is heard, but not conceived; the other is conceived, but not heard. 10 million Ukrainians without power because of Russia. All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes: By instinct, men and women justify themselves and see their own ways as pure. They entail ignominy and reproach upon all they have to do with. A fool's mouth is his destruction, his lips are a snare of his soul. It may seem a very insignificant deed to strike a flint and steel together so as to produce a single spark, but one spark may produce a terrible and destructive fire. Dr. Constable's Expository Notes. Help us purchase electrical generators for churches. is the same one who wastes his life away. I. Slothfulness and prodigality have the same origin. The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe ( Proverbs 18:10 ). 3 When wickedness comes, so does contempt, and with shame comes reproach. Oct 25, 2005. The spirit of a man, at least among those to whom Solomon wrote, had truth enough to save him if he would only listen. Time, says J. The languages of several countries are not so different as of the poor and rich man in one and the same country, and a stranger of another land is not such a foreigner as in the same land a poor man standing at the door of the rich. And this is the only power which can win a brother offended. If he has been in the wrong we must approach him with a free forgiveness, and if the wrong has been on our side we must approach with submission and acknowledgment of our fault. Proverbs 18 1 An unfriendly man pursues selfish ends; he defies all sound judgment. Prudence, i.e., wisdom applied to practice, is an indispensable qualification for obtaining knowledge. The favour of a good parent is a thing prized highly by a dutiful child, and enhances the value of every other blessing. Then your body also is full of darkness. And men are prone to go even beyond thisthe children of the same common Father often take delight in making their poor brethren feel their dependence on them, and instead of giving sympathy and help freely and after a brotherly fashion, they withhold the first entirely, and if they give the latter they do it coldly and even contemptuously. And she said, "Well, now, honey, do you think you understand?" As in similar verses, Miller translates a wounded spirit: a spirit of upbraiaing. Life in conflict - Jesus is your banner. I. What, if I should return to the world, look back, give up my profession, yield to my own deceitful heart, and perish at last with aggraved condemnation? You are walking outside the gates of your tower; no wonder that your imprudence exposes you to the fiery darts of the wicked. Read again the name of the Lord! There seems no Scriptural prohibition to the use of this ordinance, provided it be exercised in a reverential dependence upon God, and not profaned for common purposes or worldly ends. The sources of the evil are various. Proverbs 20:27. They trusted in themselves, and in their own wisdom, despising others (Luke 18:9; Luke 16:15; Jude 1:19). If our strength were as an army, and our lands not limited save with east and west, if our meat were manna, and our garments as the ephod of Aaron; yet the afflicted conscience would refuse to be cheered with all these comforts. The spirit of a man will sustain his weakness; but a wounded spirit who can bear? Here the righteousthe man justified by the grace, and sanctified by the Spirit, of Godrunneth every day, every hour; realizing at once his fearful danger, and his perfect security.Bridges. At the mere dictate of desire is but one noun with a preceding particle, meaning after, or, according to The noun means a longing. For surely they are the best seekers of knowledge, and are most earnest after it, who have already gotten it. They are often held in contempt even while living, and the reproaches of those who have been made to suffer by them are heaped upon their heads. Wounds. The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as a high wall in his own conceit. I. Some men even profess to be seekers after true and spiritual wisdom, when they are only striving to gratify some unworthy ambition. In the strife to appear well, in the time it takes, in the industries they scatter, in the hospitalities they provoke, and in the securityships they engender, broadening our socialities will try every one of us well. I. But although a man may play with fire and escape unharmed, or may even apply a torch to his neighbours house without singeing so much as a hair of his own head, no fools lips enter into contention or call for strokes without bringing retribution upon his own head. They that love it, i.e., make it a special object of gratification (Stuart). I. Beginning with the familiar intercourse of every-day life, how true it is that the utterance of kindly words of sympathy, and advice and warning, have a tendency to make sunshine in the heart of him who utters them, while censorious, hasty, harsh words embitter and darken the spirit of their author. And there is an aspect in which we may view the slothful man in which we not only note the close resemblance he bears to his prodigal brother, but in which he is transformed into a prodigal himself. And moral weeds seem to have a like capability of utilising everything that comes in their way to their own advancementthe unrighteous man makes a fortune, or a position, or a name for himself, while his godly neighbour is struggling for a bare subsistence. The power of words over the man who utters them. And a man who has only heard a part of a matter is in no better position to judge in it, and commits as great a folly if he attempts to do so. One is the darkness of a pool, the other the breadth and gush of an overflowing water. Proverbs 26:22, and will bear very different renderings. web jun 9 1984 paperback 20 55 18 used from 16 58 the gold medallion award winning . This appears to me the best meaning: the reader may judge for himself. That it is thus a means to a most desirable end appears when we consider, I. 2 A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself. When the eleven Apostles were awaiting the seal of their commission, they felt that they had no time to waste in contending who should fill up the empty place in their bandthey knew that, although they were brethren in Christ, they might differ in their opinions in the matterand they therefore wisely determined to decide it by referring to the lot. A little thought and observation will convince us that this is true. Calleth for. He who separates himself seeks his own desire, He quarrels against all sound wisdom. Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeks and intermeddleth with all wisdom. KJV. The bite of a viper is not so deadly as the wound of these talebearers stories and insinuations. Such a man often deeply wrongs others. The results of both extravagance and sloth are the same. If we would get knowledge or grace, we must desire it, as that which we need and which will be of great advantage to us, 1 Corinthians 12:31. NIV. The word so translated occurs only here and in chap. A man who isolates himself seeks his own desire. The uncertainty of riches has been a subject upon which the sages and moralists of all ages have dweltthe millionaire of to-day may be a beggar to-morrow, and he who was last year surrounded by this high wall, which shut in so much that was agreeable to his senses and shut ont so many discomforts from his temporal life, may be standing to-day a forlorn, unsheltered creature, with only the ruins of his once imposing fortress around him. 1 Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom. ", Bible by Barker, 1615: "Fro the desire thereof he will separate himself to seeke it, and occupie himself in all wisdome." And in no case is this more true, than with regard to offices in the Church. Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out. Here, the counsel is the deep water, not the words. In any translation, the tongue is mentioned well over a hundred times in the Bible. A man who does it proclaims that he values very lightly the reputation of those concerned, and is often a robber of what is more to a man than his purse, viz. The spirit can sustain the body under its trials, but sensual gratifications and physical comforts can do nothing towards alleviating spiritual distress. . [Note: Waltke, The Book . There can be no doubt that each has its peculiar temptations (see chap. This is that fearful consequent which treads upon the heels of presumption. He strikes for what he desires. II. The Vulgate, Septuagint, and Arabic, read as follows: "He who wishes to break with his friend, and seeks occasions or pretenses, shall at all times be worthy of blame.". Desire is the chariot-wheel of the soul, the spring of energy and delight. As setting forth an indispensable condition of making and keeping friends. They are endowed with a natural courage which makes them scorn to be overcome by physical pain, or they are naturally very hopeful, and are enabled in some measure to look beyond the present suffering to a time of relief in the future. It is a universal tendency of fallen humanity to look exclusively on his own things and not on the things of others, and the wealth of the rich man enables him to indulge this tendency to its utmost. Therefore St. Jerome affirms that Judas sinned more in despairing of his Masters pardon than in betraying Him; since nothing can be more derogatory to the goodness of God, which He hath granted by promise and oathtwo immutable witnessesto penitent sinners than to credit the father of lies before Him.T. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. The last clause of this verse may be divided into two smaller ones and placed in apposition, thus: a bubbling brook,a fountain of wisdom. Wherefore let reason and indifferency hear the differences that are between any, and if it can be done let them be reconciled. David has been happy to be part of the Blue Letter Bible . Genesis 13:11). David said, "I will love thee, O LORD, my strength" ( Ps 18:1 ). The original here is difficult, and differently understood. More than once he bears testimony to the blessedness of marriage in the true sense of the word, but we never find him praising the practice which was so great a curse to his own life. Who lives by himself follows his own whim; he is angered by advice of any kind. i. 12/1/22: I just found out that most of the commentaries on the Bible Study Tools website are no longer free. 2. Twin-brothers are often so much alike that it is difficult for onlookers to distinguish one from the other. 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