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He came at the appointed time, laid the foundations according to the specifications, and proceeded with his building, course upon course, according to the approved methods of his craft. all that is solid and stable: subsistence, essence, existence. For He who is supremely rich is meek and tender, and he who is profoundly poor is loud in his reproach!Miller. II. Proverbs 16:32). Proverbs 16:4 is . 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. 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." My old MS. Bible translates, Occasioun seeketh that wil go awei . It is unwise to be antisocial in the schismatic sense of that word (cf. 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). 1 Unfriendly people care only about themselves; they lash out at common sense. Verse 9 . b 3 A stone is heavy and sand is weighty, But the irritation caused by a fool is heavier than both. Coverdale thus: "Who so hath pleasure to sowe discorde, piketh a quarrel in every thinge. They keep no daily reckoningno accounts; and so their money is gone, they cant tell howthey had no idea they were living at such a rate!and even when they have made the discovery there is no improvement. In this pericope, the wise way (following the moral law in general, Proverbs 1:8-9) does not have the personal appeal, or the excitement and hope of power, that the second way does (Proverbs 1:10-19).Its only reward is goodness, as opposed to acceptance by one's peers. Poverty seems as universal as disease and death, and must be referred to the same source. (He hath no delight in knowledge, but in the displaying of his own thoughts.Hodgson.) This page provides a method to go directly to a commentary by a specific author. For Homiletics on Proverbs 18:12, see on chap. 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. Herod feasts in the palace, while John the Baptist is beheaded in the dungeon. Proverbs 18:1 He who isolates himself pursues selfish desires; he rebels against all sound judgment. Pro 18:1 Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh [and] intermeddleth with all wisdom. 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. General Reference . II. 14). a. 2 Fools care nothing for thoughtful discourse; all they do is run off at the mouth. Twin-brothers are often so much alike that it is difficult for onlookers to distinguish one from the other. A wife is the holiest of all relations; in this world the most powerful for good. A good marriage is a means of grace, of course any relation that is near and potent is covered by the passage.Miller. III. It is an outline which God has given to him to be filled up in a certain timespiritual and mental capacities and abilities are bestowed upon him which he is expected so to use as to form a godly noble character, and he cannot afford to waste any of the life given him for this purpose in contention with his brother man, thereby arousing the devil within himself and in him with whom he disputes. The acts of the prodigal and the slothful man differ in themselves, but they all spring from that spirit of self-pleasing which is the essence of ungodliness. I. The heart of the prudent gets knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge. 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. Through desire a man, having separated himself The original is difficult and obscure. And he that answers a matter before he hears it, it is folly and a shame to him. For as that which being whole is most strongly united, being broken is farthest from being made whole; and as a stick of hard wax, being broken, may more easily be conjoined than a stick of hard wood, so are the divisions of brethren more hardly composed than the contentions of others.Jermin. God inflicts nothing on us but what the spirit of a man can sustain, but our greatest sufferings are owing to ourselves, and no more chargeable on the providence of God than our sins are. Proverbs 18:1 - A man who isolates himself seeks his own desires; he rages against all wise judgment. III. 69.]. It gives a place for you. For such ought to be the command of love between brethren, that he that breaks it is a disloyal rebel unto it. 3. 4 The words of the mouth are deep waters, I. Solitude is indispensable to the attainment of wisdom. 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. Proverbs 17. As the lot was had recourse to when causes were such as admitted not of determination otherwise, there seems to be a natural enough relation of suggestion between this verse and the preceding. The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as a high wall in his own conceit. g So the Targum. I. 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. We think it treats of. Deeply does the Christian minister feel the responsibility of this holy separation, that he may give himself wholly to his office (1 Timothy 4:15; 2 Timothy 2:4). But although it is only that, it is a very real and terrible barrier. If you say he spent the night in a den of lions you read the story superficially. There must be a withdrawal, to commune with thine own heart and to ask the questionsWhere art thou? Such minds cannot bear anything that requires close and long-sustained attention. This is, I think, quite an important proverb, the next one. 34 "Your eye is like a lamp for your body. There is in the wise a love of knowledge, and an application of the mental powers for its attainment. How canst thou intermeddle with the great wisdom of knowing thyself, if thy whole mind be full of this worlds chaff and vanity? Some men spend days of solitude in patient investigation for no other purpose than to make a name for themselves. The spirit of a man may control his sickness, but a spirit of upbraiding, who can carry that? To give all up, and simply lie back and murmur, is bad even for worldly disorders; but Solomon derives out of it a much more profound spiritual sense. Solomon here sets forth. Such a man seems to be pourtrayed in the second verse as the fool who hath no delight in understanding but that his heart may discover itself. (If he seeks knowledge at all, it is neither for its own sake nor for the purpose of fitting him for usefulness, but solely for the ends of self-displayWardlaw.) But if otherwise it cannot be ordered then let a lot be the compromiser of them. Time is to human creatures a very precious commodity, because the longest life lived in this world is comparatively short. It may be taken by superior physical force, it may be surprised and captured, or its inhabitants may be starved into a surrender. The bars that guard the outlet of a fortress are strong, and when the iron crowbar is applied to them with a view of making an entrance, the weapon finds itself resisted by a substance as unyielding as its own. Can't agree on something, we'll flip a coin. 18 The simple have folly as an adornment, but the shrewd wear knowledge as a crown. So the needle that draws the thread through the cloth is some means to join it together.. 18. a maul] "i.e. Life is a wide thing; and might, at least, be acted through, before in the darker points we insist upon a judgment Folly, and therefore, mischief; shame, and therefore, ill desert. 2. When God shall raise up our sins, like dust and smoke in the eyes of our souls when He either hides His countenance from us, or beholds us with an angry look; lo, then, if any sickness be like this sickness, any calamity like the fainting soul! One of the many evils of poverty. The name Jesus is our strong tower. spit on the common good. (NEB) The words of a mans mouth are dark as the deep waters of a pool, or tank; but the well-spring of wisdom is as a flowing brook, bright and clear. So taken the verse presents a contrast like that of Jeremiah 2:13.Plumptre. And in no case is this more true, than with regard to offices in the Church. I. Like the apostles of old, he cannot but speak the things which he has seen and heard (Acts 4:20). We ought to submit to mystery in God, for the tide of His utterance is to flow on for ever.Miller. Those who are truly wise seek wisdom for its own sake. Thither their eyes look, thither their hands are stretched, thither their hearts carry them. If the wise man sometimes spares his words, it is not for want of matter, but for greater edification. 2. He rescues the righteous like this: "Then the earth shook and trembled . Read the direction to trust in itWho is there among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant: that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? Other renderings are. 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. Proverbs 14:23). Because it is hard to break through. But a wounded spirit crushes the entire man. The wife of Potiphar seemed just in her cause when she declared that Joseph left his garment in her hand and fled. Thus the administrative ability which was bestowed upon Joseph was not given to him simply or chiefly to bring him before Pharaoh for his own advancement, but to bring blessing to the Egyptian nation, and to further Gods purposes concerning his own family. Proverbs 18:4. 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 . Fausset remarks that the Hebrew word used for man is ish, a good man, not adam, the general term for man. (This is Millers rendering only.) This is true in relation to any and every kind of evil to which men are exposed. Through desire, etc. Proverbs 18:1. That to subdue such enmity requires more wisdom and skill than to take a city. The sources of the evil are various. a. He here notices. 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. David has been happy to be part of the Blue Letter Bible . Some of the most criminal and violent people have thought themselves pure in their own eyes. Take the sinner in his first awakening conviction. 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. I. Verse 1. In cases when representations differed, and the evidence between them was such as to leave it impossible to say certainly on which side was the preponderance, or when the parties would not submit to arbitration, or when they were too powerful to be safely meddled with, then the lot caused contentions to cease, and parted between the mighty.Wardlaw. One of them happens to be their friend; and whether it be he or his adversary that makes the statement, partiality for him stirs their resentment at the injury done to him; the blood warms, and, passion thus striking in, they hastily interrupt the narrationwill hear no more of itand at once proceed to load the enemy of their friend with abuse and imprecation. * 19 The malicious bow down before the good, and the wicked, at the gates of the just. Time has crumbled their once mighty walls, and made them unfit for purposes of defence. He may unintentionally leave out facts which in the eyes of another person may be very important, or he may bring others into a prominence to which an impartial judge may not consider them entitled. Proverbs 13:8, page 302), but the evil of the text is a very real and common one. In the elect, this spiritual sickness is an afflicted conscience, when God will suffer us to take a deep sense of our sins, and bring us to the life of grace by the valley of death, as it were by hell gates unto heaven. Jobs incautious self-defence was laid open by Elihus probing application. They become uneasy, fretted, and fidgetty; and are ever anxious to catch at any occasion for cutting the matter short and being done with it. These elements often appear together.Miller. He trembles at the thought of eternal condemnation. And so it is with the speech of a godly man. 2 Fools find no pleasure in understanding. And, like their Divine Master, they know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary (Isaiah 50:4), and thus that which flows from their lips is as refreshing and healthful to weary and struggling men and women on the highway of life as the living, cooling watercourse is to the dusty and thirsty traveller. Wherefore, when the mighty strive, and might of reason standeth on both sides equally, being too strong for man to decide, let the Almighty by His lot decide it.Jermin. View all of our resources on the biblical book of Proverbs. But upon the moral quality of the fruit of his mouth will depend the length and depth of his satisfaction. Till now he had no idea of his need of salvation. Wherefore let reason and indifferency hear the differences that are between any, and if it can be done let them be reconciled. O what an amount of scorn and reproach has been brought upon the sacred office of the ministry by the intrusion, under numberless pretexts, and from numberless causes, of wicked, worldly, ungodly men into its holy functions! Proverbs 18 1 An unfriendly man pursues selfish ends; he defies all sound judgment. 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. then, but not till then, will those be exposed to danger who have put their trust in Him. This proverb treats of a twofold aspect of human life which furnishes a strong proof of the fallen condition of human nature. 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. Through desire (through self-willed and self-seeking desire of wisdom)wisdom, Heb. Wait till God speaks, and the case will look very differently.Miller. It's idea of flipping a coin, you know. Leviticus 19; Proverbs 29; Matthew 13:24-58. And what Cicero practised as the means of forensic success, requires, as the essayist urges, to be imitated by all who study any subject in order to arrive at the truth. Verse 1. I. Wicked men do come into places of power and influence. But a derivative from the same root, and differing only slightly in form, is found in Jeremiah 51:20, and is there translated by 'battle-axe' (or maul, R.V. Time, says J. Ignorance of physical and scientific truth often leads men to expose themselves to bodily danger without being aware of it, and ignorance of spiritual truth often causes men to become victims of great moral evil without realising their danger. c 4 There is the cruelty of rage and the flood of . A bed of down cannot do much for a man whose body is racked with painit can do nothing for him whose soul is bowed down by sorrow, or smitten with a fear of death. But a good wife is the best friend of all (22-24). And however their success may dazzle mens eyes and warp their judgment for a season, contempt is their portion at last. Pride first, then the crash, but humility is precursor to honor. That's an important proverb to me. Sometimes family feuds have led men to resort to this terrible method of settling disputes, and men of the same parentage have fought till one shed the others blood. Many have ruined their lives by not ruling their mouths. 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. Even Daniel, although a captive in Babylon, found that the God-given powers within him made room for him at a heathen court and brought him before more than one mighty monarch. A. James, is the most precious thing in the world. The original word here used is a brother revolting or departing by disloyalty; or else a brother offended by disloyal departing. Things go on as before; and still (to use rather a colloquial, but sufficiently expressive phrase), what is taken in by the door is thrown out by the window; and still the wonder continues how it goes! In the two clauses of the verse, on the principle of parallelism, there appears to be an inversion of the same sentiment; for, properly speaking, the words uttered are not the deep waters, but the stream that issues from them; and, on the other hand, the wellspring of wisdom is not the flowing brook, but the deep and copious fountain or reservoir from which it issues. The malignancy is great in both, but with far less danger in the former. It would be a difficult matter, and perhaps an impossible one, to enumerate all the respective moral advantages of poverty and riches, and strike the true balance between them. Satisfied. I. Proverbs 18:21. The most useful method would be to go to the section of Scripture that you are interested in, and selecting the button for a . "So it's possible to answer a matter before you really know what the matter is. A man's gift makes room for him and brings him before great men. And yet such is the field of wonder, that the contemplation of a single point overwhelmed the Apostle with adoring astonishment. Who can translate all its outgoings? It is the overflow of heartfelt experience. 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. Proverbs 14:12. And she said, "Well, now, honey, do you think you understand?" He has joy in being the originator of fresh and living thoughts, and in being able by clothing them in words to impart them to others. Grant that both are obscure. 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. 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. An impregnable refuge. We must try to fathom the profound meaning which is hidden under this simple but striking proverb. 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 two evils censured are. 2 A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself. How many times we have run into it to find safety. 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. This strong refuge is not only safe, but set aloft, so the word signifies, out of the gunshot. But God so loveth peace, that, where men cannot, He will do right, if that the lot refer unto His arbitrament. A bad wife is no wife at all. 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 ). 1. It would be indeed a blessing if property was the most precious thing wasted in the contentions of men. SUMMARY OF THE CHAPTER.That the chapter before us treats mainly of the virtues of social life, of sociability, affability, love of friends, compassion, etc., appears not merely from its initial and closing sentences, the first of which is directed against misanthropic selfishness, the latter against thoughtless and inconstant universal friendship, or seeming friendship, but also from the various rebukes which it contains of a contentious, quarrelsome, and partisan disposition, e.g. and a chain to adorn your neck. Proverbs 18:19. [Note: Toy, p. 2. The gift of one talent is more common than the gift of ten, yet both the ten and the one are gifts from the same hand. 3 When wickedness comes, so does contempt, and with shame comes disgrace. and yet, when the harvest is come, he may take his choice whether he will eat of the product or not. 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). There is much to be wrought, gained, and enjoyed. None but a foolish man seeks contention. A little thought and observation will convince us that this is true. Before that he served as director and teacher at Calvary Chapel Bible College, Germany, following more than 20 years of pastoral ministry. We are repeatedly said to be saved by the name of God (Psalms 54:1; John 17:11-12). An unbearable wound of spirit can be the portion of those only who have no sense of the favour of God. Add custom text here or remove it. This is a great vindication of the providence of God with respect to those evils and calamities that are in the world. I. It is said to be the candle of the Lord, because it comes from God in a more immediate manner than the body, Ecclesiastes 12:7; and because it is in God's stead, to observe and judge all our actions. We know the viper. Nay, even the commendation of a large liberality as a means of gaining for ones self favour and influence in human society (Proverbs 18:16), and likewise the praise of an excellent mistress of a family, are quite closely connected with this main subject of the chapter, which admonishes to love towards ones fellow-men; they only show the many-sided completeness with which the theme is here treated.Langes Commentary. Application of the text is a means of grace, of course any relation that solid. Profound meaning which is hidden under this simple but striking proverb favour God... ; he defies all sound judgment hath pleasure to sowe discorde, a..., if thou wouldst know the secret of the fruit of his utterance is human. 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