Proverbs 23:17-35 NIV

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

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 23:19-28

Here is good advice for parents to give to their children; words are put into their mouths, that they may train them up in the way they should go. Here we have, I. An earnest call to young people to attend to the advice of their godly parents, not only to this that is here given, but to all other profitable instructions: ?Here, my son, and be wise, Prov. 23:19. This will be an evidence that thou art wise and a means to make thee wiser.? Wisdom, as faith, comes by hearing. And again (Prov.... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 23:29-35

Solomon here gives fair warning against the sin of drunkenness, to confirm what he had said, Prov. 23:20. I. He cautions all people to keep out of the way of temptations to this sin (Prov. 23:31): Look not thou upon the wine when it is red. Red wine was in Canaan looked upon as the best wine, it is therefore called the blood of the grape. Critics judge of wine, among other indications, by the colour of it; some wine, they say, looks charmingly, looks so well that it even says, ?Come and drink... 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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 23:19

Hear thou, my son, and be wise ,.... Hear the instruction of a father, of the word of Wisdom, of the ministers of the Gospel, which is the way to be wise unto salvation; faith comes by hearing; spiritual wisdom, and an increase of it; the Spirit of God, and his gifts and graces; and guide thine heart in the way ; in the way of the Lord, in the way of wisdom and understanding, in the way of truth and faith, in the way of religious worship, in the way of the commandments and ordinances of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 23:20

Be not amongst winebibbers ,.... Who drink to excess, otherwise wine may be drank, provided moderation is used; but it is not good to be in company with, excessive drinkers of it, lost a habit of excessive drinking should be acquired; among riotous eaters of flesh ; flesh may be lawfully eaten, but not in a riotous manner, so as to indulge to gluttony and surfeiting; nor should such persons be kept company with that do so, lest their ways should be learned and imitated. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 23:21

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty ,.... They consuming their substance upon their bellies, in eating and drinking; see Proverbs 21:17 ; and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags ; excessive eating and drinking brings drowsiness on men, unfits them for business, and makes them idle and slothful; and spending all on their bellies, they have nothing for their backs, and are clothed in rags; see Proverbs 24:33 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 23:22

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee ,.... And who has a true and hearty affection for thee, and whatever he says is for thy good and welfare, which he studies and has at heart; and who therefore also has an authority over thee, and what he enjoins ought to be strictly regarded; and, having lived longer in the world, must be thought to have a larger experience and knowledge of things, and therefore should be hearkened unto; and despise not thy mother when she is old ; despise not her... read more

John Gill

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

Buy the truth, and sell it not ,.... Evangelical truth, the word of truth, the Gospel of salvation, which comes from the God of truth; has Christ, who is the truth, for the stem and substance of it; men are directed and led into it by the Spirit of truth; the whole matter of it is truth; truth, in opposition to the law, that was typical and shadowy; to the errors of false teachers, to everything that is fictitious, or another Gospel; and to that which is a lie, for no lie is of the truth:... read more

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

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 23:19-28

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 23:29-35

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

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 23:19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 23:20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 23:21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 23:22

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

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