proverbs-4:14-19

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Proverbs 4:17

bread. Put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Part) for food in general. of = obtained. Genitive of Origin. App-17 (2). wickedness = lawlessness. Hebrew. rasha'. App-44 . wine. Hebrew. yayin. App-27 . of violence = obtained by violence. Genitive of Origin. App-17 (2). read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Proverbs 4:18

But. Marking the contrast between the growth of wickedness (verses: Proverbs 4:16 , Proverbs 4:17 ), and the growth of wisdom leading in right paths (verses: Proverbs 4:11 , Proverbs 4:12 ). the shining light = the dawning of day: advancing and brightening till noon. perfect = stable part, when the sun seems stationary on the meridian. Illustrations: Jacob (Genesis 49:10 , Genesis 49:18 . Hebrews 11:21 ); Nathanael (John 1:46-51 ); Eunuch (Acts 8:27-39 ). read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Proverbs 4:19

way of the wicked. Illustrations: Korah (Numbers 16:16-19 ); Ahab (1 Kings 16:31 ); Babylon (Isaiah 47:11 ); Jews (Jeremiah 5:19 , Jeremiah 5:25 ; Jeremiah 44:15-23 .Ezekiel 18:29 . Acts 28:25 , Acts 28:26 ). as. Some codices, with one early printed edition, read "in". read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 4:18

Proverbs 4:18. But the path of the just is as the shining light— The presence of the just enlightens, instructs, edifies, rejoices: they carry light into every place by their example, and by their instructions. And they grow more and more in knowledge, grace, and consolation, until all be perfected and swallowed up in glory. The wicked, on the contrary, are always in darkness, Proverbs 4:19. The former are the children of light of whom the gospel speaks; the other are the children of darkness,... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Proverbs 4:14

14. (Compare :-). Avoid all temptations to the beginning of evil. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Proverbs 4:16

16, 17. The reason is found in the character of sinners, whose zeal to do evil is forcibly depicted (Proverbs 6:4; Psalms 36:5). They live by flagrant vices (Psalms 36:5- :). Some prefer to render, "Their bread is wickedness, their drink violence" (compare Job 15:16; Job 34:7). read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Proverbs 4:18

18, 19. As shining light increases from twilight to noonday splendor, so the course of the just increases in purity, but that of the wicked is as thickest darkness, in which one knows not on what he stumbles. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Proverbs 4:10-19

7. The two paths 4:10-19In Proverbs 4:10-19, two paths again lie before the youth: the way of wisdom (Proverbs 4:10-13) and the way of folly (the way of the wicked; Proverbs 4:14-17). [Note: See Norman C. Habel, "The Symbolism of Wisdom in Proverbs 1-9," Interpretation 26:2 (April 1972):131-57, for a study of "the way" as a nuclear symbol in this section of Proverbs; and Daniel P. Bricker, "The Doctrine of the ’Two Ways’ in Proverbs," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 38:4... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 4:1-27

Ancestral Wisdom. The Two PathsIn Proverbs 4:1-9 the teacher lays stress on the fact that his instruction is a repetition of his father’s. No teaching was thought valuable save that which was handed down from one generation to another. The best pupil was the one who was ’a cemented cistern which loses not a drop.’ Proverbs 4:10-19 might be called the doctrine of the two paths, the two ways of life. 20-27 enjoin strict attention to instruction and to conduct.7. Lit. ’The beginning of wisdom is,... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Proverbs 4:16

(16) For they sleep not . . .—The practice of evil has become as it were a second nature to them, they cannot live without it. read more

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Proverbs 4:17

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Proverbs 4:18

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Proverbs 4:19

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 4:18

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Proverbs 4:14

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Proverbs 4:16

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Proverbs 4:18

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Proverbs 4:10-19

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 4:1-27

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Proverbs 4:16

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