Proverbs 27:13-17

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 27:14

(See homily on Proverbs 25:20 .)—C. read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 27:15

The single line of the second clause of Proverbs 19:13 is here formed into a distich. A continual dropping in a very rainy day. "A day of violent rain," סַגְרִיר ( sagrir ), which word occurs nowhere else in the Old Testament. And a contentious woman are alike. The word rendered "are alike" ( נִשְׁתָּוָה ) is usually taken to be the third perf. nithp. from שׁיה ; but the best established reading, according to Hitzig, Delitzsch, and Nowack, is נִשְׁתָּוָה , which is... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 27:15-16

Proverbs 27:15 and Proverbs 27:16 form a tetrastich on the subject of the termagant wife. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 27:15-16

The quarrelsome wife She is compared to the continual dropping of a shower; and the attempt to restrain her is like seeking to fetter the wind or to grasp at oil. I. THE MONOTONY OF ILL TEMPER . It persists in one mood, and dyes all it touches with one colour, and that a dismal one. II. THE CORRODING EFFECT UPON OTHERS ' MINDS . Fine tempers cannot resist this perpetual wear and tear; the most buoyant spirits may be in time depressed by this dead weight. ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 27:16

Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind. Whoever tries to restrain a shrewish woman, or to conceal her faults, might as well attempt to confine the wind or to check its violence. And the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself . He might as well try to hide the ointment which signifies its presence by its odour. But there is no "which" in the original, which runs literally, "his right hand calls oil," or, "oil meets his right hand." The former is supposed to mean that he is hurt in... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 27:17

Iron sharpeneth iron. The proverb deals with the influence which men have upon one another. So a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. So the Vulgate, Homo exacuit faciem amici sui . The action of the file is probably meant ( 1 Samuel 13:21 ); and the writer names iron as the sharpener rather than the whetstone, because he wishes to denote that one man is of the same nature as another, and that this identity is that which makes mutual action possible and advantageous. Some... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 27:17

The advantages of society I. OBSERVE IN WHAT THE ADVANTAGES OF SOCIETY CONSIST . We have ancient authority for the idea that it is not good for man to be alone ( Genesis 2:18 ). Man is naturally a gregarious being. Though some people are more sociable than others, no one can be healthy in perpetual solitude. The isolation of the hermit engendered the wildest hallucinations of fanaticism together with the narrowest conception of the world. Prisoners of the Bastille, in... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 27:17-22

Wisdom for self and for others I. THE BENEFIT OF INTELLIGENT SOCIETY . ( Proverbs 27:17 , Proverbs 27:19 .) 1 . The collision of mind with mind elicits truth , strikes out flashes of new perception . A man may grow wiser by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation. "Speech is like embroidered cloth opened and put abroad," said the mistochs to the King of Persia. In the collision of minds the man brings his own thoughts to light, and whets his wits against a... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Proverbs 27:12-13

Proverbs 27:12-13. Of the former of these verses, see on Proverbs 22:3, and of the latter, on Proverbs 20:16. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Proverbs 27:14

Proverbs 27:14. He that blesseth his friend That saluteth, praiseth, or applaudeth him to his face, as the manner of flatterers is; with a loud voice That both he and others may be sure to take notice of it; rising early in the morning To perform this office, to show his great forwardness and diligence, and zeal in his service; which was the custom of the Romans afterward, and possibly of some of the Jews at this time. It shall be counted a curse to him His friend will value this... read more

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