Provérbios 23:15-18 NVIPT

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 23:12-16

Here is, 1. A parent instructing his child. He is here brought in persuading him to give his mind to his book, and especially to the scriptures and his catechism, to attend to the words of knowledge, by which he might come to know his duty, and danger, and interest, and not to think it enough to give them the hearing, but to apply his heart to them, to delight in them, and bow his will to the authority of them. The heart is then applied to the instruction when the instruction is applied to the... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 23:17-18

Here is, 1. A necessary caution against entertaining any favourable thoughts of prospering profaneness: ?Let not thy heart envy sinners; do not grudge them either the liberty they take to sin or the success they are to be pitied rather than envied. Their prosperity is their portion (Pr. 12:14), nay, it is their poison,? Prov. 1:32. We must not harbour in our hearts any secret discontent at the providence of God, though it seem to smile upon them, nor wish ourselves in their condition. ?Let not... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 23:15

My son, if thine heart be wise ,.... To that which is good; so as from it to understand in a spiritual and experimental manner things divine and heavenly; he may be said to have a wise heart who knows in some measure what his heart is, the wickedness, the original depravity and corruption, of it; the plague of his own heart; the weakness and inability of it to do that which is good; the insufficiency of his own righteousness to justify him before God; the poverty of his spirit, and the folly... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 23:16

Yea, my reins shall rejoice ,.... Which is only another phrase expressive of the same thing, and confirming the greatness of joy on the above occasion; not only his heart rejoiced, which was affectionately concerned for his son, near which he lay, the desires of which were frequently drawn out for his good, but his reins also; the seat of the afflictions rejoiced at it; showing how vehement, sincere, and hearty the joy was; when thy lips speak right things ; as they will, when the heart... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 23:17

Let not thine heart envy sinners ,.... Their present prosperity and happiness, the pleasure, profit, and honour, they seem to enjoy; all which is but a shadow, fading had temporary; and yet good men are apt to envy it in their hearts, if they do not express it with their lips; and are ready to murmur and think it hard that they should be in straitened circumstances while the wicked are in flourishing ones; and inwardly fret and are uneasy at it, which they should not, Psalm 37:1 ; or do... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 23:18

For surely there is an end ,.... Both of the prosperity of the wicked, which is but for a short time; and of the afflictions of the righteous, which are but as it were for a moment; and therefore there is no reason to envy the one, nor to be fretful under the other; the end to a good man will be peace and prosperity for ever: there is a "reward" F2 אחרית "merces", Pagninnus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Gejerus; so Ben Melech. , as some render it here, for the righteous, though... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 23:18

Surely there is an end - אחרית יש yesh acharith , there is another life; "and thy expectation" of the enjoyment of a blessed immortality "shall not be cut off." The Old MS. Bible reads thus: For thou schalt hab hop in the last: and thin abiiding schal not ben taken awei. "For the ende is not yet come; and thy patient abydinge shal not be in vayne." - Coverdale. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 23:12-18

Discipline in Divine wisdom I. THE TEMPER OF DOCILITY . ( Proverbs 23:12 .) It is submission of the affections to a higher law. It is the resignation of the will to a higher leading. It is the opening of the understanding to Divine counsels. It is the realization, on the one hand, of dependence and need; on the other, of the light, the wisdom, and the goodness which ever meet that need. II. THE NECESSITY OF DISCIPLINE FOR THE YOUNG . ( Proverbs 23:13 ,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 23:15

The moralist now addresses the disciple, and so to the end of the chapter. If thine heart be wise ; become wise by profiting by discipline, and having its natural folly ( Proverbs 22:15 ) eradicated. My heart shall rejoice, even mine. The pronoun is repeated for the sake of emphasis (as in Proverbs 22:19 ), the speaker thus declaring his supreme interest in the moral progress of his pupil. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 23:16

My reins shall rejoice. The "reins" ( kelayoth ) , kidneys, are regarded as the seat of feeling and sensation ( Job 19:27 ). or of the inner nature generally ( Psalms 16:7 ; Revelation 2:22 ). I shall rejoice in my very soul when thy lips speak right things; i.e. when thy heart is so replete with wisdom, thy mind so well instructed as to utter naught but what is true and sensible ( Proverbs 8:6 ). The composition of these two verses is noteworthy, Proverbs 23:15 being... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 23:12-16

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 23:17-18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 23:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 23:16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 23:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 23:18

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 23:18

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 23:12-18

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 23:15

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 23:16

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