Genesis 42:6, Genesis 43:28, Exodus 8:8, Exodus 9:27, Exodus 9:28, Exodus 11:8, 2 Kings 3:12, Esther 7:7, Esther 7:8, Psalms 49:14, Isaiah 60:14, Micah 7:9, Micah 7:10, Micah 7:16, Micah 7:17, Malachi 4:3, Acts 16:39, Revelation 3:9 Reciprocal: Exodus 6:9 - hearkened read more
He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.Foolishly — His passion hurries him into foolish speeches and actions.Wicked devices — One who suppresses his passion, but meditates revenge.Hated — Both by God and men. read more
The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.Inherit — They possess it as their inheritance, holding it fast, and glorying in it.Knowledge — The saving knowledge of God and of their own duty. read more
The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.The evil — Good men shall have the pre-eminency over the wicked. read more
17. Soon angry קצר אפים , ( ketsar-appayim,) short of nostrils; the word primarily means nostrils, but tropically anger. The ancients conceived of anger as conspicuously expressed by the nostrils, the chief external organs of respiration. Thus, “short of nostrils” signified angry, or passionate, and “long of nostrils,” the opposite, slow to anger. The thought of the proverb is, that a passionate man is apt to act foolishly, but men may pity his weakness: whereas a man of deliberate evil... read more
18. Inherit Not specifically; rather, acquire, get, gain. Folly is their acquisition. Are crowned with knowledge Acquire a crown of knowledge; knowledge attained is their glory, ornament, and power. “They embrace knowledge.” Zockler. “Crown themselves.” Furst. Stuart says: “Gather wisdom around them; make a crown of knowledge.” read more
19. At the gates That is, bow at “the gates” as beggars, supplicating favour and relief. Evil and wicked are only different words descriptive of the same class of persons. The proverb does not imply that this is always the case in this world, but that often, in the retributions of Providence, the wicked who oppressed and persecuted the righteous are made to humble themselves before them, and even to beg their bread from them. Compare Proverbs 13:9; Proverbs 13:22; Psalms 37:25, seq.;... read more
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Proverbs 14:18
inherit: Proverbs 3:35, Proverbs 11:29, Jeremiah 16:19, Jeremiah 44:17, Matthew 23:29-Jonah :, 1 Peter 1:18 the prudent: Proverbs 4:7-1 Samuel :, Proverbs 11:30, Daniel 12:3, 2 Timothy 4:8, 1 Peter 5:4 Reciprocal: Psalms 65:11 - crownest Proverbs 7:7 - the simple Acts 13:7 - a prudent read more