Proverbs 10:23-32 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 10:23

Here is, 1. Sin exceedingly sinful: It is as laughter to a fool to do mischief; it is as natural to him, and as pleasant, as it is to a man to laugh. Wickedness is his Isaac (that is the word here); it is his delight, his darling, and that in which he pleases himself. He makes a laughing matter of sin. When he is warned not to sin, from the consideration of the law of God and the revelation of his wrath against sin, he makes a jest of the admonition, and laughs at the shaking of the spear;... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 10:24-25

It is here said, and said again, to the righteous, that it shall be well with them, and to the wicked, Woe to them; and these are set the one over against the other, for their mutual illustration. I. It shall be as ill with the wicked as they can fear, and as well with the righteous as they can desire. 1. The wicked, it is true, buoy themselves up sometimes in their wickedness with vain hopes which will deceive them, but at other times they cannot but be haunted with just fears, and those... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 10:26

Observe, 1. Those that are of a slothful disposition, that love their ease and cannot apply their minds to any business, are not fit to be employed, no, not so much as to be sent on an errand, for they will neither deliver a message with any care nor make any haste back. Such therefore are very unmeet to be ministers, Christ's messengers; he will not own the sending forth of sluggards into his harvest. 2. Those that are guilty of so great an oversight as to entrust such with any affair, and... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 10:27-28

Observe, 1. Religion lengthens men's lives and crowns their hopes. What man is he that loves life? Let him fear God, and that will secure him from many things that would prejudice his life, and secure to him life enough in this world and eternal life in the other; the fear of the Lord will add days more than was expected, will add them endlessly, will prolong them to the days of eternity. What man is he that would see good days? Let him be religious, and then his days shall not only be many,... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 10:29-30

These two verses are to the same purport with those next before, intimating the happiness of the godly and the misery of the wicked; it is necessary that this be inculcated upon us, so loth are we to believe and consider it. 1. Strength and stability are entailed upon integrity: The way of the Lord (the providence of God, the way in which he walks towards us) is strength to the upright, confirms him in his uprightness. All God's dealings with him, merciful and afflictive, serve to quicken him... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 10:31-32

Here, as before, men are judged of, and, accordingly, are justified or condemned, by their words, Matt. 12:37. 1. It is both the proof and the praise of a man's wisdom and goodness that he speaks wisely and well. A good man, in his discourse, brings forth wisdom for the benefit of others. God gives him wisdom as a reward of his righteousness (Eccl. 2:26), and he, in gratitude for that gift and justice to the giver, does good with it, and with his wise and pious discourses edifies many. He... read more

John Gill

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

John Gill

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

John Gill

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

John Gill

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

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 10:23

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 10:24-25

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 10:26

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 10:27-28

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 10:29-30

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 10:31-32

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

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

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

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

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