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Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 23:13

It is a likely mean to prevent their corruption, and the destruction which commonly follows it, as the next verse explains this. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Proverbs 23:12-28

CRITICAL NOTES.—Proverbs 23:17. Let not thine heart envy, etc. The verb translated envy refers to both objects in the verse, and is better translated “strive after.” Miller renders it “be aglow.” “It is,” he says, “a verb expressive of all emotion.” (See Numbers 25:11-13.) Proverbs 23:18. Surely there is an end. Delitzsch here reads, “Truly there is a future.” “The root of the Hebrew,” says Miller, signifies afterward. Proverbs 23:20. Eaters of flesh. This may be translated “Devourers of their... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Proverbs 23:1-35

Chapter 23Now the next three verses are coupled together.When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: And put a knife to your throat, if you be a man given to appetite. Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat ( Proverbs 23:1-3 ).So you don't go in and start scarfing up the hors d'oeuvres, you know. All of these dainty little fancy things, you know, and you go in and just start woofing them down. And never any way you're going to fill up on hors... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Proverbs 23:1-35

Proverbs 23:1-2 . When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, and hast a princely feast before thee of meats and wines, put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. How many have stained their character at public dinners. Excision is the way to conquer crime. Every man must have an inexorable rule of temperance in his own breast, or he is lost. Cicero ridicules the man, natus abdomini, born for his belly. Christ has commanded us to cut off the right hand, and to pluck out... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 23:13

Pro 23:13 Withhold not correction from the child: for [if] thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Ver. 13. Withhold not correction from the child. ] See Trapp on " Pro 13:24 " He shall not die. ] Or if he do, yet not by thy default. Thou hast delivered thine own soul howsoever. If a blackmore enter into the bath, though he become not white by it, yet the bath master hath his pay, saith Keyserspergius . The physician hath his fee whether the patient recover or die. read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 23:14

Pro 23:14 Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell. Ver. 14. And shall deliver his soul frown hell. ] Fond and foolish parents are peremptores potius quam parentes, a rather parricides than parents; since Qui non, cum potest, servat, occidit, by not saving their children they slay them; by cockering then, in their sin they pitch them headlong into hell. a Bernard., Epist. 111. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Proverbs 23:13

Proverbs 13:24, Proverbs 19:18, Proverbs 29:15, Proverbs 29:17 Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 21:18 - when they 1 Samuel 3:13 - restrained them not 1 Kings 1:6 - had not Proverbs 22:15 - but Luke 15:18 - I have Ephesians 6:4 - but Hebrews 12:7 - endure read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Proverbs 23:14

Proverbs 22:15, 1 Corinthians 5:5, 1 Corinthians 11:32 Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 21:18 - when they 1 Samuel 3:13 - restrained them not 1 Kings 1:6 - had not Proverbs 13:24 - General Proverbs 15:24 - that Proverbs 19:18 - Chasten Proverbs 29:15 - General Proverbs 29:17 - General Ephesians 6:4 - but Hebrews 12:7 - endure read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Proverbs 23:13

Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.Shall not die — It is a likely way to prevent his destruction. read more

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