Provérbios 28:1-11 NVIPT

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 28:1

The cowardice of guilt and the courage of righteousness I. THE COWARDICE OF GUILT . "The wicked flee when no man pursueth." 1 . This cowardice springs from a natural feeling of ill desert . "Conscience doth make cowards of us all." Apart from all authoritative revelation, when no prophet of God is charging a man with his sin, an awful voice within clamours against his guilt and shakes the very foundations of his confidence. Though he has never breathed a word of his... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 28:1-5

Canons of moral truth I. WICKEDNESS IS FEARFUL , GOODNESS IS COURAGEOUS . ( Proverbs 28:1 .) A good conscience is better than a thousand witnesses; an evil conscience unmans ( Job 15:21 ). What passes by the name of courage is often the effect of fear of men; and that which is discountenanced as want of spirit may proceed from the profoundest reverence for God. We shall never find anything in the world more to be feared than the warring presence within our own breast.... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 28:1-25

(latter part) The source of disturbance and the secret of security We hardly need the pen of the wise man to assure us that— I. SIN MEANS DISTURBANCE TO OUR SOUL . 1 . It is bad enough to be unfortunate ; to suffer from privation or loss. 2 . It is far worse to be guilty . We soon accommodate ourselves to our misfortunes; we readily adjust ourselves to our circumstances, even though these may be very narrow. But sin strikes deep, and its wound lasts long.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 28:1-28

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The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 28:2

For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof. This implies that the wickedness of a nation is punished by frequent changes of rulers, who impose new laws, taxes, and other burdens, which greatly oppress the people; but regarding the antithesis in the second hemistich, we take the meaning to be that when iniquity, injustice, apostasy, and other evils abound, a country becomes the prey of pretenders and partisans striving for the supremacy. The history of the northern kingdom... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 28:3

A poor man that oppresseth the poor. The words rendered "poor" are different. The former is rash , "needy," the latter dal , "feeble" (see on Proverbs 10:15 ). Delitzsch notes that, in accordance with the accents in the Masoretic text, we should translate, "A poor man and an oppressor of the lowly—a sweeping rain without bringing bread," which would mean that a tyrant who oppresses the lowly bears the same relation to the poor that a devastating rain does to those whom it deprives of... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 28:4

They that forsake the Law praise the wicked. This they do because they love iniquity, and like to see it extend its influence, and arm itself against the good, who are a standing reproach to them. St. Paul notes it as a mark of extreme wickedness that gross sinners "not only do the same iniquities, but have pleasure in them that do them" ( Romans 1:32 ). Such as keep the Law contend with them ; are angry with them. They are filled with righteous indignation; they cannot hold their peace... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 28:4-5

The practice and effect of sin and righteousness We have a double contrast here between the practice of the sinner and of the righteous man, and between the consequence of sin and of goodness upon the mind of the guilty and of the good. I. THE PRACTICE OF SINFUL MEN . They "praise the wicked;" they "bless the covetous" ( Psalms 10:3 ). 1 . It is a fact that they do so . We hear the voice of ungodliness lifted up in favour of what is utterly wrong in the sight of... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 28:5

Evil men understand not judgment; or, what is right . An evil man's moral conception is perverted, he cannot distinguish between right and wrong; the light that was in him has become darkness (comp. Proverbs 29:7 ). Many men, by giving themselves over to wickedness, awe judicially blinded, according to John 12:1-50 :89, 40. They who seek the Lord understand all things. These who do God's will, seeking him in prayer, know what is morally right is every circumstance, have a right... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 28:6

This is almost the same as Proverbs 19:1 , but varies a little in the second hemistich: than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich. The Hebrew literally is, perverse of two ways ; i . e . who, going one way, pretends to go another; the "two ways" being the evil which he really pursues, and the good which he feigns to follow. Delitzsch calls him "a double-going deceiver." So Siracides imprecates, "Woe to the sinner that goeth two ways" ( Ecclesiastes 2:12 ). "A... read more

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