Proverbs 12:26 ESV

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Proverbs 12:26

CRITICAL NOTES.—Proverbs 12:26. Is more excellent than his neighbour, rather “guides his neighbour.” Delitzsch reads, “looketh after his pastures.” The Hebrew word signifies “abundance” (see Miller’s remarks in the comments on the verses). MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 12:26THE GUIDE AND THE SEDUCERTranslating this verse, “The righteous guides his neighbour aright,” we remark:—I. That the righteous man guides his neighbour both by his word and by his life. He guides him by wise counsel—by giving... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Proverbs 12:26

DISCOURSE: 779THE EXCELLENCY OF THE RIGHTEOUSProverbs 12:26. The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour.MEN in their external appearance are alike; so far at least, that their moral character cannot with any accuracy be determined by it. But God, who searches the heart, sees an immense difference between different men; such a difference as suffices to arrange them all under two great classes—the righteous and the wicked. In the righteous he finds an excellency which he in vain looks for... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Proverbs 12:1-28

Chapter 12Whoso loves instruction loves knowledge: but he who hates reproof is brutish ( Proverbs 12:1 ).And there's a lot in the Proverbs about instructing a wise man and he will love you. Instruct a fool and he will hate you. And a fool hateth instruction, and so forth. And the value of loving instruction, receiving instruction.A good man obtains favor of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will be condemned by God. A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Proverbs 12:1-28

Proverbs 12:4 . A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband, as illustrated at large in chap. 31. Proverbs 12:9 . He that is despised, and hath a servant. There are various comments here. He that is despised, as a plebeian, and hath a servant; others say, and hath many servants, is better than the baron lost in poverty and debts. In the east, the rank of a man is known, not so much by the splendour of his carriage, as by the number of footmen which attend him. Absalom had fifty men to... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 12:26

Proverbs 12:26The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour.The religious man’s advantagesThe sentiments of men concerning virtue, and their own particular practice, form a very strange and striking contrast. Philosophers have differed about the origin of moral distinctions, and delivered various theories concerning virtue; but the people who judge from their feelings have no system but one. Religion gives its powerful sanction to the maxims of morality. The objections against a holy life... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 12:26

Pro 12:26 The righteous [is] more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them. Ver. 26. The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour. ] Let him dwell by whomsoever; he is ever a better man than his neighbours; he is "a prince of God" among them, as Abraham was among the Hittites. The Jews say that those seventy souls that went with Jacob into Egypt, were as much worth as all the seventy nations in the world. Nemo me maior, nisi qui iustior, said Agesilaus, when... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Proverbs 12:26

righteous: Proverbs 12:13, Proverbs 17:27, Psalms 16:3, Matthew 5:46-Galatians :, Luke 6:32-Zephaniah :, 1 Peter 2:18-Ecclesiastes : excellent: or, abundant but: Psalms 18:12, Psalms 18:13, James 1:13, James 1:14, 2 Peter 2:18-Song of Solomon :, 1 John 2:26, Revelation 12:9, Revelation 13:14 Reciprocal: Proverbs 16:25 - General Proverbs 19:1 - Better Ezekiel 13:10 - seduced Daniel 5:12 - an excellent read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Proverbs 12:26

The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.Neighbour — Than any other men.Seduceth — Heb. maketh them to err, to lose that excellency or happiness which they had promised themselves. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 12:26

26. More excellent… neighbour Meaning, than his unrighteous neighbour. There is some difficulty in this verse on the word rendered more excellent, or, by some, more abundant. “The weight of later criticism is in favour of rendering thus: ‘ The righteous man guides, or shows, the way to his neighbour; but the way of the wicked misleads them.’” So Gesenius in Lex., with whom agree Stuart, Zockler, Miller. But Fausset adheres to the old rendering. read more