As you have scoffed at me and my ways, I also will laugh at your calamity, i.e. destroy you without pity, and take pleasure therein. Compare Revelation 18:20. Your fear; the misery which you do or should fear. The act for the object, as Isaiah 8:12, and elsewhere. read more
As desolation; as some desolating sword or judgment, which quickly overruns a whole country. As a whirlwind; which instantly spreadeth itself from place to place with great and irresistible violence, and doing much mischief. read more
CRITICAL NOTES.—Proverbs 1:20. The word wisdom is in the plural form in the Hebrew. Proverbs 1:27. Desolation, or “tempest.” Proverbs 1:28. To seek early denotes “earnestly.” See ch. Proverbs 8:17, Hosea 5:15. The person now changes from the second to the third, “as though wisdom were increasing alienated” (Miller). Proverbs 1:32. The turning away of the simple, i.e., their rejection of wisdom. Prosperity, “Security,” “idle, easy rest.”MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH—Proverbs 1:20-23THE CRY OF... read more
Proverbs 1:24-28 I. God in mercy visits a rebellious generation. He calls, stretches out His hands, gives counsel, and administers reproof. II. A rebellious generation neglect or resist the gracious visitation of God. III. They shall eat the fruit of their own ways, and be filled with their own devices. As certainly as a husbandman in harvest reaps only what he sowed in spring, shall they, who in life sow sin, reap wrath in judgment. W. Arnot, Laws from Heaven, 1st series, p. 78. read more
Proverbs 1:24-31 I. The person represented as speaking these very solemn and terrible words is that same wisdom which is represented in the verses before the text as making most gracious offers to all who will hear her voice. We shall make a right use of the language if we conclude from it that the wisdom of God will not speak for ever in the way of warning and rebuke, but that a time will come to those who do not listen to her words, when her voice will bring no comfort to their hearts, and... read more
DISCOURSE: 753THE NEED OF ATTENDING TO GOD’S GRACIOUS INVITATIONSProverbs 1:20-31. Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: she crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you. I will make known my words unto you. Because I... read more
Shall we turn in our Bibles tonight to Proverbs, chapter 1. The first six verses are sort of a preface to the book, as authors many times write a preface to their work.The Proverbs of Solomon the son of David, the king of Israel ( Proverbs 1:1 );When Solomon first came into the throne of his father David, the kingdom of Israel had come really to the zenith of its glory, of power. It was at that point one of the strongest kingdoms in the world. Blessed of God mightily. And when Solomon became... read more
Proverbs 1:1 . Proverbs, apothegms, parables, sentences, similitudes. The proverbs of a nation are the compressions of wisdom into short maxims, which like the coins of a country worn bare by use, pass from hand to hand, without scruple or fear. The Hebrew word משׁלים mishelim, from משׁל mashal, to rule or govern, signifies a collection of wise sayings for the government of life and conduct. Proverbs 1:2 . To know wisdom. This little volume comes cheap to us, but it cost the king of... read more
Proverbs 1:24-28Because I have called, and ye refused.The rejected call of WisdomI. The manner in which it has called upon you--in which the appeals of Wisdom and of religion have been made. In the manner, the variety, the intensity, the tenderness, the unwearied nature, and the sleepless watchfulness of appeal, nothing has occurred that can be compared with the calls which have been made to you to abandon a sinful course and to give your heart to God.II. The manner of the reception of this... read more
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 1:25
Set at nought, or despised, or made void; resisted its power and authority. My counsel: either, 1. My design of doing sinners good, which you have made of none effect to yourselves. Or, 2. My commands and counsels, which suits better with the next clause. read more