Provérbios 21:19-24 NVIPT

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 21:19

Note, 1. Unbridled passions embitter and spoil the comfort of all relations. A peevish angry wife makes her husband's life uneasy, to whom she should be a comfort and a meet help. Those cannot dwell in peace and happiness that cannot dwell in peace and love. Even those that are one flesh, if they be not withal one spirit, have no joy of their union. 2. It is better to have no company than bad company. The wife of thy covenant is thy companion, and yet, if she be peevish and provoking, it is... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 21:20

Note, 1. Those that are wise will increase what they have and live plentifully; their wisdom will teach them to proportion their expenses to their income and to lay up for hereafter; so that there is a treasure of things to be desired, and as much as needs be desired, a good stock of all things convenient, laid up in season, and particularly of oil, one of the staple commodities of Canaan, Deut. 8:8. This is in the habitation, or cottage, of the wise; and it is better to have an old-fashioned... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 21:21

See here, 1. What it is to make religion our business; it is to follow after righteousness and mercy, not to content ourselves with easy performances, but to do our duty with the utmost care and pains, as those that are pressing forward and in fear of coming short. We must both do justly and love mercy, and must proceed and persevere therein; and, though we cannot attain to perfection, yet it will be a comfort to us if we aim at it and follow after it. 2. What will be the advantage of doing... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 21:22

Note, 1. Those that have power are apt to promise themselves great things from their power. The city of the mighty thinks itself impregnable, and therefore its strength is the confidence thereof, what it boasts of and trust in, bidding defiance to danger. 2. Those that have wisdom, though they are so modest as not to promise much, often perform great things, even against those that are so confident of their strength, by their wisdom. Good conduct will go far even against great force; and a... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 21:23

Note, 1. It is our great concern to keep our souls from straits, being entangled in snares and perplexities, and disquieted with troubles, that we may preserve the possession and enjoyment of ourselves and that our souls may be in frame for the service of God. 2. Those that would keep their souls must keep a watch before the door of their lips, must keep the mouth by temperance, that no forbidden fruit go into it, no stolen waters, that nothing be eaten or drunk to excess; they must keep the... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 21:24

See here the mischief of pride and haughtiness. 1. It exposes men to sin; it makes them passionate, and kindles in them the fire of proud wrath. They are continually dealing in it, as if it were their trade to be angry, and they had nothing so much to do as to barter passions and exchange bitter words. Most of the wrath that inflames the spirits and societies of men is proud wrath. Men cannot bear the least slight, nor in any thing to be crossed or contradicted, but they are out of humour,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 21:19

It is better to dwell in the wilderness ,.... Where persons live without shelter, and are not only exposed to storms and tempests, but to beasts of prey; where is want of the necessaries of life, and no society; where no "speech" is, as the word F5 מדבר "a" דבר "loqui". for wilderness may signify; yet it is better to dwell in such a place, where no human voice is heard, than with a contentious and an angry woman ; that is always brawling and scolding, ever in a quarrelsome... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 21:20

There is a treasure to be desired ,.... Gold, silver, jewels, and precious stones; all sorts food, as Aben Ezra explains it, and rich and costly, raiment; all which may be lawfully desired and sought after, and, when obtained, laid up for future use; which may be spared for their own service and that of posterity: but there are riches of grace, a pearl of great price and treasure in heaven, more desirable than these, Matthew 6:19 ; and oil in the dwelling of the wise ; which is... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 21:21

He that followeth after righteousness and mercy ,.... Is eager, diligent, and fervent in his pursuit of these things: "after righteousness"; not a legal righteousness, such as the Jews followed after, but did not attain to; because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law, Romans 9:31 ; by which there is no righteousness or justification before God; but an evangelical righteousness, the righteousness of Christ; see Isaiah 51:1 . To follow after it is to seek,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 21:22

A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty ,.... Which makes good what is elsewhere said, that "wisdom is better than strength", Ecclesiastes 9:16 ; and sometimes more is done by prudence and wisdom, by art and cunning, by schemes and stratagems, than by power and force; especially in military affairs, and particularly in besieging and taking fortified cities; when one wise man, by his wisdom, may so order and manage things, as to be able, with a few under his command, to mount the walls... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 21:19

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 21:20

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 21:21

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 21:22

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 21:23

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 21:24

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 21:19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 21:20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 21:21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 21:22

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