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. 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. Solomon again and again reverts to the mighty influences for good and evil which flow from the use of the tonguethat little member upon which such great issues often depend. His soul is set free, and he enjoys his safety. He surely learned an awful lot about women. An eternal refuge. A fool has no delight in understanding, But in expressing his own heart. Leviticus 17-18; Proverbs 28; Matthew 13:1-23. 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. My old MS. Bible translates, Occasioun seeketh that wil go awei fro a freend: at al tyme he schal ben wariable. March 11. He declares that the state of the inward manits rest or unrest, its gladness or its gloomdepends very much upon the use that is made of the tongue. Heads, we will. He that hath commanded to cease from labour, hath much more commanded to cease from strife. Then your whole body also is full of light. Proverbs 18:19. The heart of the prudent gets knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge. He runs to it, as to a strong tower. 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. The man who trusts in material wealth as his chief good, has either made too low an estimate of his own needs, or too high an estimate of the power of wealth. To this tower the wicked are sometimes driven in distress, then seeking help here, when it is nowhere else to be found. When people become too confident in their own opinions, they are liable to break away from former friends. 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. The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook. "He that separateth himself seeketh his own desire, And rageth against all sound wisdom.". David has been happy to be part of the Blue Letter Bible . III. 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. If one member of the body politic, by the position which he holds and the ability which he possesses, is able to exercise a very powerful influence in the kingdom for weal or for woe, men watch him narrowly and jealously to see how he uses his power, and if they are anxious for the well-being of the State they endeavour to restrain him when he is going wrong and stimulate him when he is using his influence for the right. 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 author of this proverb was a polygamisthis great experience qualified him to give an opinion upon the subjectbut we do not here find him dwelling upon the satisfaction of the harem, but upon the blessedness of a wife. Verse 11. Proverbs 19. 2 A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself. Spiritual sickness for sin befalling a reprobate soul, is final and total desperation. Life is full of changes and challenges. 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. 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. Miller. How true this is, men for the first time in a court can easily imagine. 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. 1 Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom. March 12. This is not so with the fool; they find no delight in wisdom. Now Solomon has quite a bit to say about the slothful or the lazy person. 2. unfriendliness and unreasonableness are inseparable." But if otherwise it cannot be ordered then let a lot be the compromiser of them. 12/1/22: I just found out that most of the commentaries on the Bible Study Tools website are no longer free. But in addition, most of the propositions that seem to be more remote may be brought under this general category of love to neighbours as the sum and basis of all social virtues; so especially the testimonies against wild, foolish talking (Proverbs 18:2; Proverbs 18:7; Proverbs 18:13, comp. Adams. Human friendships cost. Proverbs 15:18 Commentary; Proverbs 15:19 Commentary; Proverbs 15:20 Commentary; . We think it treats of. Who lives by himself follows his own whim; he is angered by advice of any kind. Verse Proverbs 18:1. 4 Many words rush along like rivers in flood, But the name of the Lord meets his eye. 2. Very true. Take the sinner in his first awakening conviction. None can pull out of His hands. The special good-will of some who can feel with him and for him in all the vicissitudes of life is indispensable to his happiness. If the wise man sometimes spares his words, it is not for want of matter, but for greater edification. And so it stops the contentions. So many times we answer a person before we really understand completely what they're asking for. spit on the common good. The righteous is not a righteous man provero, but only righteous, he having the first chance to speak. 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. Who cannot rest till he good fellows find,He breaks up house, turns out of doors his mind.. But the way in which a man uses his lips and his tongue, as the organs of speech, may contribute not a little to his getting, or his failing to get, the meat that perisheth. I mean not that any of you should, in the slightest degree, try to work your way in life by words of flattery; but when a mans general conversation is such as to procure for him a character for discretion, courtesy, gratitude, straight forward integrity, and trustworthiness, this may surely contribute, eminently and directly, to the temporal sustenance and comfort of the man himself and his family: while an opposite style of intercourse may tend to penury and starvation. He that was pleased to make the Sabbath of rest, is also pleased with those who make a Sabbath of peace. 11 If they say, "Come along with us; let's lie in wait for innocent blood, let's ambush some harmless soul; 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. A man can rise above pain of body. Secularly, a wife is the highest treasure. And in the same spirit and by the same rule, otherwise applied, had Felix done well to defer hearing Pauls defence until Pauls accusers were present. Aristides, they tell us, would lend but one ear to anyone who accused an absent party, and used to hold his hand on the other, intimating that he reserved one ear for the absentee accused. Cicero, the greatest orator, save one, of antiquity, has left it on record, as we are pertinently reminded on the Essays on Liberty, that he always studied his adversaries case with as great intensity as his own, if not still greater. 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. In the field of the world, the tares grow as well as the wheat (Matthew 13:26), and often they seem for a time to be more flourishing. Proverbes 18:1 Interlinaire Proverbes 18:1 Multilingue Proverbios 18:1 Espagnol Proverbes 18:1 Franais Sprueche 18:1 Allemand Proverbes 18:1 Chinois Proverbs 18:1 Anglais Bible Apps Bible Hub Version Louis Segond 1910 La Bible David Martin 1744 Darby Bible courtesy of CCEL.org. The bent is in the mould where the thought is first cast in embryo, and everything that comes forth is crooked. Findeth implies the rarity of the thing obtained (Ecclesiastes 7:27-28), and the need of circumspection in the search. 2. 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. The answer is plain. 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. The favour of a good king is in itself a fortune which few men would despise. II. Proverbs 14:12. 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. He does violence to his own understandingto those mental faculties which enable him to place things side by side and to compare them, and to sift and weigh evidence before he arrives at a conclusion. More is justly expected from a brother than from a strangermore of affection, gratitude, kindly treatment, fidelity, and trustworthiness. and be exalted on high. No man can be wise unless he has some self-knowledge, and no man can subject himself to much inspection while in company, hence the advice of George Herbert. Some take it as a rebuke to an affected singularity. 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