Proverbs 17:17 WEB

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 17:16-23

The Ways Of The Fool (Proverbs 17:16-23 ). The main emphasis in this subsection is on the ways of the fool (Proverbs 17:16; Proverbs 17:21), the man void of mind (heart) (Proverbs 17:16; Proverbs 17:18; Proverbs 17:20), the unrighteous man (Proverbs 17:23). He thinks he can buy wisdom, but cannot for he has no mind for it (Proverbs 17:16); because he is void of mind he becomes a surety, putting himself in danger of ruin (Proverbs 17:18); he loves transgression bringing strife on himself... 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 17:17

A friend, a sincere and hearty friend, loveth at all times, not only in prosperity, but also in adversity, when false friends forsake us. A brother, who is so not only by name and blood, but by brotherly affection, is born for adversity; was sent into the world for this among other ends, that he might comfort and relieve his brother in his adversity. So this proverb compareth a friend with a brother, and showeth that a friend doth that freely, and by choice, which a brother doth by the force... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Proverbs 17:17-18

CRITICAL NOTES.—Proverbs 17:17. “Friend and brother are related the one as the climax of the other. The friend is developed into a brother by adversity.” (Lange’s Commentary). MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 17:17-18, and of CHAP. Proverbs 18:24TRUE FRIENDSHIPI. A true friend loves under all conditions. 1. He loves in times of separation. The distance between our earth and the sun does not prevent the one from influencing the other—there is a power in gravitation which can make itself felt even... read more

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Proverbs 17:17

The Unrivalled Friend A sermon (No. 899) delivered on Lord’s Day morning, November 7th, 1869, at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington, by C. H. Spurgeon. “A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.” Proverbs 17:17 . There is one thing about the usefulness of which all men are agreed, namely, friendship; but most men are soon aware that counterfeits of friendship are common as autumn leaves. Few men enjoy from others the highest and truest form of friendship. The... 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 17:17

Proverbs 17:17A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.The unrivalled FriendFew men enjoy from others the highest and truest form of friendship. There is, however, a higher friendship among men of principle, among men of virtue. Where godliness builds her house, true friendship finds a rest. Take this text and refer it to the Lord Jesus Christ.I. The endurance of the love of Jesus Christ. He loved before time began. He loved you when time began with you. Since that day... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 17:17

Pro 17:17 A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. Ver. 17. A friend loveth at all times. ] Such a friend was Jonathan; Hushai the Archite; Ittai the Gittite, who stuck close to David when he was at his lowest point. But such faithful friends are in this age all for the most part gone in pilgrimage, as he a once said, and their return is uncertain. David met with others, besides those above mentioned, that would be the causes, but not the companions, of his calamity... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Proverbs 17:17

Proverbs 18:24, Proverbs 19:7, Ruth 1:16, 1 Samuel 18:3, 1 Samuel 19:2, 1 Samuel 20:17, 1 Samuel 23:16, 2 Samuel 1:26, 2 Samuel 9:1-1 Chronicles :, Esther 4:14, John 15:13, John 15:14, Hebrews 2:11 Reciprocal: Genesis 14:14 - his brother Judges 11:7 - Did not ye hate Ruth 1:14 - but Ruth Ruth 2:20 - hath not 2 Samuel 15:21 - surely 2 Samuel 16:17 - why wentest Job 2:11 - friends Job 6:14 - To him Psalms 119:20 - at all times Proverbs 27:10 - better read more