Proverbs 10:27-32 KJV

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 10:27

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

John Gill

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

John Gill

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

John Gill

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

John Gill

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

John Gill

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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 10:28

The expectation of the wicked shall perish - A wicked man is always imposing on himself by the hope of God's mercy and final happiness; and he continues hoping, till he dies without receiving that mercy which alone would entitle him to that glory. read more

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 10:27

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

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

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

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

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 10:28

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