Proverbs 10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 10:23

It is as sport to a fool to do mischief ,.... To do any injury to the persons and properties of men; which shows a most wicked and malicious spirit, a very depraved nature indeed: or rather "to commit sin" F15 עשות זמה "facere scelus", Montanus, Baynus, Junius & Tremellius, Cocceius, Michaelis; "perpetrare scelus", Piscator; "patrare facinus", Schultens. of any sort, which he has devised in his own heart; it is as a "laughing" F16 כשחוק "veluti risus", Mercerus,... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 10:24

The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him ,.... What he dreads in his own mind will be his unhappy case, sooner or later it comes upon him; his fear of distresses, calamities, and judgments in this life, and of eternal wrath and vengeance hereafter; for the most profligate and abandoned wretches, the greatest atheists, who endeavour to work themselves up to a disbelief of a God and a future state, have at times their frights and fears about these things; and as are their fears of God,... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 10:25

As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more ,.... The wicked themselves are like a whirlwind, noisy, boisterous, and blustering; such is the man of sin, who speaks like a dragon, breathing out slaughter and threatening against the saints; and so are his followers, fierce and heady, and like a whirlwind, pernicious and destructive, bearing down, carrying away, and destroying all before it; so the locusts of the bottomless pit, under their king Abaddon, or Apollyon, the destroyer;... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 10:26

As vinegar to the teeth ,.... Which, with its coldness and sourness, blunts the teeth, and makes it troublesome to eat: the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions, render it, "as the sour grape is hurtful to the teeth;' sets them on edge; and as smoke to the eye ; dims the sight, causes the eye to water, and is very pernicious and vexatious: so is the sluggard to them that send him : that is, the slothful messenger, as the Targum explains it; who, being sent on an errand, is... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 10:27

The fear of the Lord prolongeth days ,.... Not beyond the time fixed in the unalterable purposes and decrees of God, Job 14:5 ; but longer than some others, or than those that fear the Lord expect to live; or longer than, according to the course of nature, and the weakness of their constitutions, it could be thought they should live. Long life is promised to them that fear the Lord; godliness has the promise of this life and of that to come; the fear of the Lord is the means of preserving... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 10:28

The hope of the righteous shall be gladness ,.... Or, " is gladness" F23 "Est", Pagninus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Michaelis. ; it is now attended with joy; he has a pleasure in the exercise of the grace of hope as to future things; he rejoices in hope of the glory of God, and is enabled to hold fast the rejoicing of his hope firm unto the end, Romans 5:2 ; and the issue of his hope will be an abundant entrance into the joy of his Lord; a being brought into his... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 10:29

The way of the Lord is strength to the upright ,.... Who are upright in heart and life; who have the uprightness or righteousness of Christ imputed to them, and right spirits renewed in them; in consequence of which they walk uprightly, Proverbs 10:9 . To these "the way of the Lord is strength"; both the way which he himself takes, and the way which he prescribes and directs his people to walk in: the way in which he walks in providence towards them is the strength of them; he is their... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 10:30

The righteous shall never be removed ,.... They may be removed from place to place in this world, through the persecutions of their enemies, or through one providence or another, as they often are; they may be removed from a state of outward prosperity to a state of adversity, as Job was; they may be removed from spiritual and comfortable frames of soul to carnal or uncomfortable ones; for good frames are very precarious and uncertain things; and they will be removed out of this world into... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 10:31

The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom ,.... As the earth brings forth its increase, and a tree brings forth its fruit; hence speech is called the fruit of the lips; wisdom is good fruit; a good man is comparable to the fruitful earth, and to a good tree; whose mouth brings forth wise things in abundance, which are very pleasant and profitable; not worldly wisdom, much less devilish; not merely natural wisdom, but spiritual and evangelical; see Psalm 37:30 ; but the froward tongue... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 10:32

The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable ,.... To God and man; what is well pleasing to, God, and what ministers grace to the hearers, or what is grateful: and such things they will deliver out; they are used and accustomed to them; not only the righteous know in their judgment what is acceptable, but they use themselves to say those things; they not only know them in theory, but practise them: some men know what is acceptable, but their lips do not know it; they are not used to it,... read more

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