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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 17:24-28

In The Face Of Wisdom And Understanding The Fool Soon Reveals Himself For What He Is (Proverbs 17:24 to Proverbs 18:2 ). In this subsection the fool is prominent. Unlike the wise whose eyes are always on wisdom (Proverbs 17:24), and who behave discreetly (Proverbs 17:27), the fool’s eyes are anywhere but on wisdom (Proverbs 17:24); he is a grief to his parents (Proverbs 17:25); he perverts justice (Proverbs 17:26); he only appears wise when he keeps his mouth shut (Proverbs 17:28); he is an... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 17:1-28

Proverbs 17. Fresh points are the rise of the able and clever slave to a place in the family ( Proverbs 17:2), the practice of bribes ( Proverbs 17:8; Proverbs 17:23), the value of adversity as a test of friendship ( Proverbs 17:17): also the subject of suretyship, dealt with in Proverbs 6:1-Deuteronomy :, is resumed ( Proverbs 17:18). Proverbs 17:1 . For the connexion between sacrifices ( mg.) and feasting cf. Proverbs 6:14. For “ sacrifice” used to denote private slaying cf. Deuteronomy... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 17:24

Before him; or, in (as the particle beth is used, Deuteronomy 2:7, and is here rendered by divers interpreters) the face or countenance. The sense is either, 1. His wisdom appears even in his gestures and looks, which are modest, and composed, and grave. Or, 2. Wisdom is before him, or in his sight, as the mark at which he aims, or as the rule by which he constantly walketh and ordereth all his steps, from time to time minding his present duty and business. The steps of a fool are in the ends... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Proverbs 17:24

CRITICAL NOTES.—Proverbs 17:24. Many explain this verse to mean that the wise find wisdom everywhere while the fool seeks it everywhere but in the right place. Delitzsch and others understand the proverb to mean that wisdom is the aim of the man of understanding while the fool has no definite aim in life. MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 17:24 IN CONNECTION WITH THE FIRST CLAUSE OF Proverbs 17:22THE EYES OF A FOOL AND THOSE OF A WISE MANI. Even a fool is conscious that there is good to be found. If... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Proverbs 17:1-28

Chapter 17Better is a dry morsel, with quietness, than a house full of sacrifices with strife ( Proverbs 17:1 ).Now the house full of sacrifices refer to the sacrifices. It's, if in that economy the of the Judaism, if you decided that tonight you wanted to have roast leg of lamb, to butcher your lamb you'd take it down to the temple and you bring it to the priest. And you'd say, "I want to offer this as a peace offering unto God, a sacrifice." So you'd butcher the lamb and the priest would take... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Proverbs 17:1-28

Proverbs 17:1 . Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith. See Proverbs 15:17. Proverbs 17:3 . The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace (or crucible) for gold. Silver ores in Mexico are worked as ores of tin in Cornwall. Lead and iron, though without apparent affinity, occur in the same masses in our limestone ranges. Lead in a state of fusion, has the lighter silver floating on the top. Cobalt and the greenish nickel are difficult to separate. The alloys of gold are found... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 17:24

Proverbs 17:24Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.The nearness of life’s interest and work“Far fowls have fine feathers”--that is our modern rendering of the Hebrew proverb. Both proverbs are directed against a common weakness of human nature, our English proverb hitting it off with a good-natured smile, the Hebrew proverb rebuking it with the bluntness of a moral censor. To make little of what is at our door, and to magnify what is... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 17:24

Pro 17:24 Wisdom [is] before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool [are] in the ends of the earth. Ver. 24. Wisdom is before him that hath understanding. ] The face of an understanding man is wisdom; his very face speaks him wise; the government of his eyes, especially, is an argument of his gravity. a His eyes are in his head, Ecc 2:4 he scattereth away all evil with them. Pro 20:8 He hath oculum irretortum, as Job had; Job 31:1 and Joseph had oculum in metam (which was... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Proverbs 17:24

before: Proverbs 14:6, Proverbs 15:14, Ecclesiastes 2:14, Ecclesiastes 8:1, John 7:17 the eyes: Proverbs 23:5, Psalms 119:37, Ecclesiastes 6:9, 1 John 2:16 Reciprocal: Proverbs 8:9 - General Proverbs 24:7 - too Ecclesiastes 8:5 - a wise Matthew 11:19 - But read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Proverbs 17:24

Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.In the face — His wisdom appears even in his looks.The eyes — Minding most, those things which are remotest from him, and least concern him. read more