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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 28:1-2

See here, 1. What continual frights those are subject to that go on in wicked ways. Guilt in the conscience makes men a terror to themselves, so that they are ready to flee when none pursues; like one that absconds for debt, who thinks every one he meets a bailiff. Though they pretend to be easy, there are secret fears which haunt them wherever they go, so that they fear where no present or imminent danger is, Ps. 53:5. Those that have made God their enemy, and know it, cannot but see the... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 28:3

See here, 1. How hard-hearted poor people frequently are to one another, not only not doing such good offices as they might do one to another, but imposing upon and over-reaching one another. Those who know by experience the miseries of poverty should be compassionate to those who suffer the like, but they are inexcusably barbarous if they be injurious to them. 2. How imperious and griping those commonly are who, being indigent and necessitous, get into power. If a prince prefer a poor man, he... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 28:4

Note, 1. Those that praise the wicked make it to appear that they do themselves forsake the law, and go contrary to it, for that curses and condemns the wicked. Wicked people will speak well of one another, and so strengthen one another's hands in their wicked ways, hoping thereby to silence the clamours of their own consciences and to serve the interests of the devil's kingdom, which is not done by any thing so effectually as by keeping vice in reputation. 2. Those that do indeed make... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 28:5

Note, I. As the prevalency of men's lusts is owing to the darkness of their understandings, so the darkness of their understandings is very much owing to the dominion of their lusts: Men understand not judgment, discern not between truth and falsehood, right and wrong; they understand not the law of God as the rule either of their duty or of their doom; and, 1. Therefore it is that they are evil men; their wickedness is the effect of their ignorance and error, Eph. 4:18. 2. Therefore they... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 28:1

The wicked flee when no man pursueth ,.... Through the terrors of a guilty conscience, as in Cain and others; who fear where no immediate cause of fear is, are frightened with their own shadows; and as Gaal was with the shadow of the mountains, he took for an army of men, as his friend told him, Judges 9:36 ; they are chased with the sound of a shaken leaf, and fancy men are at their heels to destroy them, and therefore with all haste flee to some place of safety; see Leviticus 26:17 ; ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 28:2

For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof ,.... Either together; that is, reigning princes, such as lay claim to the crown, and usurp it; otherwise it is a happiness to a nation to have many princes of the blood, to inherit in succession, to support the crown in their family, and defend a nation, and study the good of it; but it is a judgment to a nation when many rise up as competitors for rule, or do rule, as at Athens, where thirty tyrants sprung up at once; by which... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 28:3

A poor man that oppresseth the poor ,.... Either one that is poor at the time he oppresses another like himself, either by secret fraud or open injury; from whom the oppressed can get no redress, as sometimes he may and does from a rich man: or rather one that has been poor, but now become rich, and got into some place of authority and profit, who should remember what he had been; and it might be expected that such an one would put on bowels of compassion towards the poor, as knowing what it... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 28:4

They that forsake the law praise the wicked ,.... Who are like them; who forsake and transgress the law, as they do; every like loves its like; wicked men delight in sin, the transgression of the law, and in those that do it. One covetous man will bless and praise another, whom the Lord abhors, and commend his covetousness as frugality and good husbandry: one proud man will call another happy, and praise him as a man of spirit, that will not debase himself, but keep up his authority, rank,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 28:5

Evil men understand not judgment ,.... Or, "men of wickedness" F2 אנשי רע "viri mali, (in genitivo casu)", Mercerus; "vel malitiae", Baynus, Gejerus. ; that are under the governing power of it; who are given up and give up themselves unto it; who, like Ahab, sell themselves to work wickedness: these know not what is just and right between man and man, at least not to do it; they know it not practically; they are wise to do evil, but to do good have no knowledge, Jeremiah 4:22 ;... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 28:1

The wicked flee - Every wicked man, however bold he may appear, is full of dreary apprehensions relative to both worlds. But the righteous has true courage, being conscious of his own innocence, and the approbation of his God. The unpitious fleeith - Old MS. Bible. This word is often used for impious, wicked, ungodly; hence it appears that our word pity anciently meant piety or godliness. read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 28:1-2

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 28:3

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 28:4

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 28:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 28:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 28:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 28:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 28:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 28:5

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 28:1

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