proverbs 18:1 studylight

If there is water beneath the surface of the earth it must force its way and find an outlet; it needs no hand of man to come to its aid; it penetrates the soil and forms a fertilising stream in obedience to natural law. If a man were possessed of a field exceedingly productive, either of good fruits or of noisome and poisonous herbs, according to the cultivation bestowed on it, what pains would he use to clear it of every weed, and to have it sown with good grain! If the soul, therefore, would lie quiet, and yield to its own light, it would be joined by what is higher, and would contain, or control its own malady; God helping, as He would, would check, and get the better of it; but a spirit of upbraidingand by this is meant precisely the quarrel (chap. (Romans 11:33). In this proverb he indirectly condemns himself and warns others by his own example. II. The slothful man is a waster of Gods most precious gifts. A fool has no delight in understanding, But in expressing his own heart. I. For He who is supremely rich is meek and tender, and he who is profoundly poor is loud in his reproach!Miller. Such a man often deeply wrongs others. web jun 9 1984 paperback 20 55 18 used from 16 58 the gold medallion award winning . Disease and death cannot be turned aside with moneya troubled soul cannot be comforted with gold. d. 21 Whoever despises the hungry comes up short, but happy the one who is kind to . The righteous By faith and prayer, devotion toward God, and dependance on . Proverbs 5:1-14 Commentary Proverbs 5 Commentary Proverbs 5:15-23 Commentary Proverbs 6 Commentary Proverbs 6:20-35 Commentary Proverbs 7:1-27 Commentary Proverbs 13 Commentary Proverbs 15 Commentary Proverbs 18:10 Commentary Proverbs 18:11 Commentary Proverbs 28:13 Commentary Proverbs 29:18 Commentary 4 The words of a man's mouth are deep waters, but the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook. 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. h "immiscet se omni negotio", Munster; "omnibus quae sunt immiscet se", Junius & Tremellius. This is the best policy for security. #1 "The tongue". We know there have been many noble exceptions to this rulethat there have been hundreds of poor men who have preferred starvation to a forfeiture of any part of their God-given inheritancebut the temptation of the poor man in this direction is often very strong by reason of his great necessity. None but foolish men and children ever play with fire, and when they do it they generally suffer themselves first, but they are often not the only sufferers. This is a Sabbath altogether moral, never to be abrogated. If a young artist has a sketch given to him by his master which he is to fill up in a given time, he cannot afford to spend the moments in disputing with his fellow-pupils about their respective rights to certain brushes and colours; while he is contending the hours are going, and when the master calls for the picture he will have none to show. The righteous mans refuge, then, is a Living Personalitya Self-existent and Eternal King and Father, infinite in power, in wisdom, and in tenderness. Jeroboamthe second; who died in the fifteenth year of Uzziah's forty-one years' reign.From his time forth all Israel's kings worshipped false gods: Zachariah (2 Kings 15:9), Menahem (2 Kings 15:18), Pekahiah (2 Kings 15:18- :), Pekah (2 Kings 15:28), Hoshea (2 Kings 17:2).As Israel was most flourishing externally under Jeroboam . The perfect holiness of God, which the lost man would upbraid, is what is vital in the cross of Christ. Blessed Are the Unoffendable. Many a time too has this been exemplified.Wardlaw. ESV. The arms of strength that defend the children of God are everlasting arms (Deuteronomy 33:7). 27 Do not boast about tomorrow, For you do not know what a day will bring. and before honor is humility ( Proverbs 18:12 ). His attention soon flags; he gets sick of it; he seems as if he were listening when he is not, and with a yawn of exhaustion and misery he pronounces his verdict, and at times with great decision, for no other purpose than to get quit of the trouble. Proverbs 18:8. 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. 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. and their contentions are like the bars of a castle ( Proverbs 18:19 ). The motive is through (his own) desire of being esteemed singularly learned, as Proverbs 18:2 shows, not from sincere delight in understanding. His aim is singularity, through self-seeking desire (Psalms 10:3; Psalms 112:10) of raising himself to a separate elevation from the common crowd, and of being thought versed in all that can be known: so he intermeddleth with all wisdom. His restless appetite for making himself peculiar and separate from others is marked by the indefinite verb seeketh, it not being added what he seeketh, for he hardly knows himself what.Fausset. 34 "Your eye is like a lamp for your body. 69.]. II. Folly's feast 9:13-18. Dr. Constable's Expository Notes. Such a state of things is often felt to be hard and is undoubtedly so, and unless a poor man is noble and self-respecting, it has a tendency to make him cringing and servileto dispose him to barter his conscience and his rights in order to satisfy his bodily needs. Play Audio: Your speech will either help or hurt you (Pr 10:14; 12:14; 13:2-3; 18:6-7,23). It is upon them that are contentious, and will not obey the truth, (Romans 2:8)that truth being in all of them through the invisible things which are seen by the things that are made (Romans 1:20)that the apostle denounces tribulation and wrath, indignation and anguish. Not that men can save themselves, but that they would save themselves under Gods influences if they did not contend with Him; that it is rebellion that turns the scale (Psalms 68:6); that there is light enough in every man to draw him to saving light if he would only follow it; and that on this very account it is the great sorrow of the sinner that he has this spirit of upbraiding, which, in the spiritual world, no moral malady can carry.Miller. The other he woundeth so, that though his blow be heard, seen, and felt, yet it is not perceived: in both they go down into the heart, as revealing the heart of the one, and as removing the heart of the other from him. Or the words may be translated, the words of a talebearer are as smoothing words: for he frameth his own words to as much softness, as those which he reporteth he maketh to be hard. Deal much in secrecy, if thou wouldst know the secret of the Lord. Like thy Divine Master, thou wilt never be less alone than when alone (Ib. The name Jesus is our strong tower. The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as a high wall in his own conceit. He is filled with the increase of his skilful hand. Proverbs 18:5-6; Proverbs 18:8; Proverbs 18:17-21. Proverbs 18:6. The heart is the core of any human being and is the true measure of who we are. Verse 1. 18 The simple have folly as an adornment, but the shrewd wear knowledge as a crown. This is true in relation to any and every kind of evil to which men are exposed. Party spirit has as much influence as gifts to blind the eyes of the wise, and to pervert the words of the righteous.Lawson. Leviticus 17-18; Proverbs 28; Matthew 13:1-23. But although it is only that, it is a very real and terrible barrier. But they who have already found it are so affected with the worth of it, so directed by the light of it, as that they still seek more, still get more.Jermin. Spiritual sickness for sin befalling a reprobate soul, is final and total desperation. and against all sound judgment starts quarrels. Actually, he's saying that by giving gifts you can open a lot of doors. Genesis 13:11). How sad must be the reflections of those who have possessed this God-given power for good or ill when they have to look back upon its misuse. The selfish and morose man who will not deny himself for anothers good, or who cannot rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep, cannot expect others to deny themselves for him and to sympathise with his joy and sorrow. If he would grow wise in the mysteries of the natural world he must oftentimes shut himself away from the haunts of men, and ponder the manifold phenomena which creation presents to him, and endeavour to unravel her secrets. This is a great vindication of the providence of God with respect to those evils and calamities that are in the world. The one he woundeth so, that his blow is neither heard, seen, nor felt. And when it has unhappily succeeded in wounding us, we instantly have recourse to means for preventing the poison from getting into the mass of the blood, and pervading the system. The readings and expositions of this verse are many. Zibas cause seemed just in Davids eyes, until Mephibosheths explanation searched him to his confusion. At the same time the Word of God appears to be more fully recognised as the arbiter of the Divine will. Perhaps it is more easy to abide by the decision of the lot than of the Word. Adams. That's where most of the quotes that appear on the "Verse of the Day" and "Previous Verses" pages of my website are taken from, so from now on, many of the "Source:" links that I provide on those pages will not contain the quoted text. 18 Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment. II. When the wicked comes, then comes also contempt, and with ignominy reproach. That is, the fool's lips enters into contention, and by his mouth, the strokes is really, is blows. The use of the lot is therefore desirable under certain conditions and restrictions, because in ending contention it saves time. Proverbs 18:14. When God gives us a moment, He does not promise us another, as if to teach us highly to value and improve it, by the consideration, for aught we know, it may be the last. Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound . This would be an amusing character, were it not, at the same time, so provoking. 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 will be seen from the Critical Notes that most modern critics translate the first clause of this verse very differently from the rendering in our Bibles. If we convict a man of prodigality for wasting gold, what shall we say of him who wastes what no gold can buy? Wounds. 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). if there is the absence of all sober and considerate calculation, and, as a consequence, no due proportioning of outlay to income, but a reckless and wasteful expenditure, leaving an unlooked-for deficiencya woful amount minusat the years end? If the kings and great men of the earth had resorted to this method of causing contentions to cease and parting between the mighty, how many homes and cities would have escaped overthrow, how many a fruitful and prosperous country would have been preserved from desolation, and how many a princely fortune would have remained in the hands of its rightful owners. 1. Wealth is a fortress with a most uncertain foundation. (1 Samuel 15:17-23.) It is no ordinary difference that makes a ground of quarrel between brothers; there are so many ties to be broken and so many motives of self-interest to bind them, that the enmity must be deep to separate them at first, and being deep and strong, it is not easily broken down. Verse 1. Proverbs 18:16. Their words are smoother than oil; yet are they drawn swords;envenomed fangs, of which the virus gets into our system ere we are aware, works its mischievous and morally deadly effects, and becomes incapable of extraction. Verse 1. The nearest translation to the words is perhaps the following: "He who is separated shall seek the desired thing, (i.e., the object of his desire,) and shall intermeddle (mingle himself) with all realities or all essential knowledge." If a man has a very small inheritance he cannot afford to have one and another of his neighbours encroaching upon his land and taking a portion here and there, or others putting their hands into his pockets and helping themselves to what is only sufficient for his own needs. Infirmity, i.e., sickness, disease of body. Novalis. Home . As surely as water will find its level, so a truly gifted man will find some outlet for his talentssome sphere large enough to use what has been bestowed upon him for the very purpose of being used. Without itChristianthy soul can never prosper. And so it stops the contentions. II. Verse 6. We cannot conceive of even perfect creatures living such a lifewe know the angels and redeemed saints derive much of their bliss from the friendship of each other, and how much more does man in his present imperfect state need it. But the righteous man can say to Him who is his strong tower, Lord, Thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations. Even from everlasting to everlasting Thou art God (Psalms 90:1-2). 1. Proverbs 19:21, MSG. And surely, if thou be courageously patient, whatsoever thou mayest lose yet thou enjoyest that which thou hast; or, if thou hast nothing, yet thou shalt enjoy thyself, thou shalt enjoy the comfort of thy own spirit. They who thrive on slender means, make the most of what they have; whereas they who live in the midst of abundance get into habits of carelessness, and of the prodigal use of what they have.Wardlaw. and a chain to adorn your neck. Life is full of changes and challenges. And a dispute between brethren is like iron bars, dividing those who ought to be one more truly and sadly than any prison door could separate them. b 3 A stone is heavy and sand is weighty, But the irritation caused by a fool is heavier than both. An eternal refuge. 3 When wickedness arrives, shame's not far behind; contempt for life is contemptible. A fool's mouth is his destruction, his lips are a snare of his soul. II. ), "Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day . Men cannot live a life of isolation and know anything of the enjoyment of life. A man's gift maketh room for him, And bringeth him before great men. Through desire a man having separated himself, &c. ] Here the reading that is in margin, methinks, is the better: "He that separates himself" - either from his friend, as the old interpreter makes the sense, or from anything . It is commonly supposed that ministers cannot repent, although they do not claim, like the Pope, the gift of infallibility; and there is too much reason for the supposition, provided it be not restricted to that order of men; for the same pride that makes one set of men stubborn in their wrong opinions is to be found in other men, although it is not perhaps so much strengthened by particular circumstances, nor so visible in their conduct, because they meet not with the same temptations to discover it. A man may, in various ways, make his lips the instrument of either want on the one hand, or plenty on the other.Wardlaw. A mans gifts. If they would but appear in their true character;would they but show their fangs, and make us feel them, we should be put upon our guard. In any translation, the tongue is mentioned well over a hundred times in the Bible. You're arguing over this thing. They are ever marvelling how other folks do. As a muscle, the tongue isn't as capable of producing force as a leg or even the jaw, but its power is measured by the damage it can do and the life it can bring. My old MS. Bible translates, Occasioun seeketh that wil go awei fro a freend: at al tyme he schal ben wariable. The waters in a shallow and stagnant pond give little or no refreshment to the thirsty traveller; they may even be the means of imparting disease to those who drink of them, or who live near them. Proverbs 4:3). 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. ", Bible by Barker, 1615: "Fro the desire thereof he will separate himself to seeke it, and occupie himself in all wisdome." 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