Provérbios 21:8-13 NVIPT

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 21:8

This shows that as men are so is their way. 1. Evil men have evil ways. If the man be froward, his way also is strange; and this is the way of most men, such is the general corruption of mankind. They have all gone aside (Ps. 14:2, 3); all flesh have perverted their way. But the froward man, the man of deceit, that acts by craft and trick in all he does, his way is strange, contrary to all the rules of honour and honesty. It is strange, for you know not where to find him nor when you have him;... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 21:9

See here, 1. What a great affliction it is to a man to have a brawling scolding woman for his wife, who upon every occasion, and often upon no occasion, breaks out into a passion, and chides either him or those about her, is fretful to herself and furious to her children and servants, and, in both, vexatious to her husband. If a man has a wide house, spacious and pompous, this will embitter the comfort of it to him?a house of society (so the word is), in which a man may be sociable, and... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 21:10

See here the character of a very wicked man. 1. The strong inclination he has to do mischief. His very soul desires evil, desires that evil may be done and that he may have the pleasure, not only of seeing it, but of having a hand in it. The root of wickedness lies in the soul; the desire that men have to do evil, that is the lust which conceives and brings forth sin. 2. The strong aversion he has to do good: His neighbour, his friend, his nearest relation, finds no favour in his eyes, cannot... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 21:11

This we had before (Prov. 19:25), and it shows that there are two ways by which the simple may be made wise:?1. By the punishments that are inflicted on those that are incorrigibly wicked. Let the law be executed upon a scorner, and even he that is simple will be awakened and alarmed by it, and will discern, more than he did, the evil of sin, and will take warning by it and take heed. 2. By the instructions that are given to those that are wise and willing to be taught: When the wise is... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 21:12

1. As we read this verse, it shows why good men, when they come to understand things aright, will not envy the prosperity of evil-doers. When they see the house of the wicked, how full it is perhaps of all the good things of this life, they are tempted to envy; but when they wisely consider it, when they look upon it with an eye of faith, when they see God overthrowing the wicked for their wickedness, that there is a curse upon their habitation which will certainly be the ruin of it ere long,... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 21:13

Here we have the description and doom of an uncharitable man. 1. His description: He stops his ears at the cry of the poor, at the cry of their wants and miseries (he resolves to take no cognizance of them), at the cry of their requests and supplications?he resolves he will not so much as give them the hearing, turns them away from his door, and forbids them to come near him, or, if he cannot avoid hearing them, he will not need them, nor be moved by their complaints, no be prevailed with by... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 21:8

The way of man is froward and strange ,.... Not the way of any and every man; not the way of righteous and good men, of believers in Christ; who know him, the way, and walk in him and after him, and being led by him; who have his spirit to be their guide, and do walk in his ways, and find pleasure in them; the way of such is not froward or perverse, but upright and even, and is not strange, for the Lord knows and approves of it: but the way of wicked and impure men, as may be learned from... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 21:9

It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop ,.... The roofs of houses in Judea were that, encompassed with battlements, whither persons might retire for solitude, and sit in safety: and it is better to be in a corner of such a roof alone, and be exposed to scorching heat, to blustering winds, to thunder storms and showers of rain, than with a brawling woman in a wide house ; large and spacious, full of rooms, fit for a numerous family: or, "an house of society" F21 ובית ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 21:10

The soul of the wicked desireth evil ,.... The evil of sin, it being natural to him; he chooses it, delights in it, craves after it, under a notion of pleasure or profit: or the evil of mischief; it is a sport and pastime to him to do injury to others; see Proverbs 10:23 ; he desires both the one and the other with all his soul; his heart is in it, he is set upon it, which shows him to be a wicked man; his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes ; not only he delights to do mischief to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 21:11

When the scorner is punished ,.... Either by the immediate hand of God, or by the civil magistrate; he who scoffs at Deity, blasphemes the most High, mocks at all religion, despises dominion, and speaks evil of dignities: the simple is made wise ; who is weak and foolish, easily persuaded and drawn into sin, yet not hardened in it, but open to reproof and conviction; he takes notice of the punishment of scorners, and takes warning from it, and behaves more wisely and cautiously for the... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 21:8

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 21:9

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 21:10

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 21:11

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 21:12

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 21:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 21:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 21:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 21:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 21:11

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