箴言 14:30-31 CUNPSS

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 14:30

The foregoing verse showed how much our reputation, this how much our health, depends on the good government of our passions and the preserving of the temper of the mind. 1. A healing spirit, made up of love and meekness, a hearty, friendly, cheerful disposition, is the life of the flesh; it contributes to a good constitution of body; people grow fat with good humour. 2. A fretful, envious, discontented spirit, is its own punishment; it consumes the flesh, preys upon the animal spirits, makes... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 14:31

God is here pleased to interest himself more than one would imagine in the treatment given to the poor. 1. He reckons himself affronted in the injuries that are done them. Whosoever he be that wrongs a poor man, taking advantage against him because he is poor and cannot help himself, let him know that he puts an affront upon his Maker. God made him, and gave him his being, the same that is the author of our being; we have all one Father, one Maker; see how Job considered this, Job 31:15. God... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 14:30

A sound heart is the life of the flesh ,.... A heart made so by the grace of God, in which are sound principles of truth, righteousness, and holiness; these preserve from sin, and so from many diseases; whereby the life of the flesh or body is kept safe and sound, or that is kept in health and vigour; or a "quiet heart" F8 לב מרפא "cor leve", Baynus; "cor lene", Mercerus; "cor lenitatis", Gejerus, so Ben Melech. ; a heart free from wrath, anger, and envy, and such like passions... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 14:31

He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker ,.... That does him any injury, either by scoffing at him, and reproaching him for his poverty; or by vexatious law suits; or by withholding from him his wages; or not giving him that relief which he ought: such an one not only injures the poor man; but reproaches God that made him, not only a man, but a poor man; and who is the Maker of the rich man also, Proverbs 22:2 ; but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor ; he that is... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 14:30

A sound heart is the life of the flesh - A healthy state of the blood, and a proper circulation of that stream of life, is the grand cause, in the hand of God, of health and longevity. If the heart be diseased, life cannot be long continued. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 14:31

He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker - Because the poor, or comparatively poor, are, in the order of God, a part of the inhabitants of the earth; and every man who loves God will show mercy to the poor, for with this God is peculiarly delighted. The poor have we ever with us, for the excitement and exercise of those benevolent, compassionate, and merciful feelings, without which men had been but little better than brutes. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 14:28-35

Life contrasts I. IN PUBLIC LIFE . 1 . Fulness and scantiness of population. ( Proverbs 14:28 .) The Hebrew had a deep sense of the value of fruitfulness in the wedded life, and of increase in the nation. The majesty of the monarch is the reflection of the greatness of his people, and the decay must represent itself in his feebleness for action. It is our duty as Christian men to study with intelligence political questions, and to support all measures which tend to freedom... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 14:30

A sound heart is the life of the flesh. The heart that is healthy, morally and physically, spreads its beneficent influence over the whole body in all its functions and relations; this is expressed by the word for "flesh" ( besarim ) , being in the plural number, as the Vulgate renders, vita carnium, but the contrast is better developed by taking מרפא in its other signification of "calm," "gentle," "meek," as Ecclesiastes 10:4 . Thus the Septuagint, "The man of gentle mind ( ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 14:30

A quiet spirit Translate the first clause of the verse thus: "The life of the body is a quiet spirit." I. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A QUIET SPIRIT . The habit and disposition of quietness need not be accompanied by torpor. There is, indeed, a quietness of sleep, as there is also a silence of the grave. But in the passage before us the quiet spirit is directly connected with life. The body may be busy while the spirit is quiet; nay, the mind may be nimble and alert, even full of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 14:31

He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker, even God. who hath placed men in their several conditions ( Proverbs 17:5 ; Proverbs 22:2 ). "The poor shall never cease out of the land" ( Deuteronomy 15:11 ); "The poor ye have always with you," said Christ ( Matthew 26:11 ); therefore to harass and oppress the poor because he is in this lowly condition, is virtually to arraign the providence of God, who is the Father of all, and has made all men brothers, however differing in... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 14:30

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 14:31

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 14:30

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 14:31

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 14:30

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 14:31

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 14:28-35

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 14:30

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 14:30

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 14:31

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