Proverbs 24:8-13 WEB

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 24:7-9

Here is the description, 1. Of a weak man: Wisdom is too high for him; he thinks it so, and therefore, despairing to attain it, he will take no pains in the pursuit of it, but sit down content without it. And really it is so; he has not capacity for it, and therefore the advantages he has for getting it are all in vain to him. It is no easy thing to get wisdom; those that have natural parts good enough, yet if they be foolish, that is, if they be slothful and will not take pains, if they be... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 24:10

Note, 1. In the day of adversity we are apt to faint, to droop and be discouraged, to desist from our work, and to despair of relief. Our spirits sink, and then our hands hang down and our knees grow feeble, and we become unfit for anything. And often those that are most cheerful when they are well droop most, and are most dejected, when any thing ails them. 2. This is an evidence that our strength is small, and is a means of weakening it more. ?It is a sign that thou art not a man of any... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 24:11-12

Here is, 1. A great duty required of us, and that is to appear for the relief of oppressed innocency. If we see the lives or livelihoods of any in danger of being taken away unjustly, we ought to bestir ourselves all we can to save them, by disproving the false accusations on which they are condemned and seeking out proofs of their innocency. Though the persons be not such as we are under any particular obligation to, we must help them, out of a general zeal for justice. If any be set upon by... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 24:13-14

We are here quickened to the study of wisdom by the consideration both of the pleasure and the profit of it. 1. It will be very pleasant. We eat honey because it is sweet to the taste, and upon that account we call it good, especially that which runs first from the honey-comb. Canaan was said to flow with milk and honey, and honey was the common food of the country (Luke 24:41, 42), even for children, Isa. 7:15. Thus should we feed upon wisdom, and relish the good instructions of it. Those... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 24:8

He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person To do evil is natural to men, all are prone to it; being conceived and born in sin, and, from the womb, more or less commit it: but for a man to sit down and contrive evil, as some men are inventors of evil things; contrive new sins, or at least new methods of sinning, such as new oaths, new games, new ways of tricking and deceiving men; and are always studying and devising ways and means of committing sin, and doing that which... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 24:9

The thoughts of foolishness is sin ,.... The thought of sin is sin F5 "Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum, facti crimen habet", Juvenal. Satyr. 13. v. 209, 210. , before it comes into action; the motions of sin in the mind, the workings of corrupt nature in the heart, the sinful desires of the flesh and of the mind: these are forbidden and condemned by the law of God as sin, which says, "Thou shall not covet", Exodus 20:17 , and stand in need of pardoning grace and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 24:10

If thou faint in the day of adversity ,.... When under bodily afflictions, stripping providences, reduced to great straits and wants; or under the violent persecutions of men, which is sometimes the case of the people of God; whose times are in his hands, times of adversity, as well as prosperity; and which are appointed by him, when they shall come, and how long they shall last; which is but for a short time, it is but a "day", and yet they are apt to "faint" under them, through the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 24:11

If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death ,.... Or "taken for or unto death" F8 לקחים למות "captos ad mortem", Montanus. Piscator, Schultens. , in a violent way; who are taken by thieves and robbers, and used in a barbarous manner, as the man in the parable, whom the priest and Levite took no notice of, and was helped by the good Samaritan; or who are unjustly sentenced and appointed to death by the civil magistrate; if any know their innocency, it becomes them to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 24:12

If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not ,.... The danger the person was in; or the innocency of his cause; or what method to take to deliver him; or that it was in our power to do anything for him; so the Vulgate Latin version, "if thou sayest, strength is not sufficient": or "we knew him not" F11 לא ידענו זה , ουκ οιδα τουτον , Sept. "non noverimus istum", Gejerus; "non novimus hunc", Pagninus, Montanus, Michaelis. , who he was or what he was; had no knowledge of him, or... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 24:13

My son, eat thou honey, because it is good ,.... It is good for food; there was plenty of it in Palestine, and it was eaten for food, not only by children, but grown persons; and was very nourishing, strengthening, and refreshing to them, as Samson, Jonathan, John the Baptist, and others; and is good for medicine, is healthful and salutary, and useful in many diseases: it is said F13 Athenaei Deipnosophist. l. 2. c. 7. p. 46, 47. so Pierius Valerian. apud Steeb. Coelum Sephirot Heb. c.... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 24:7-9

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 24:10

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 24:11-12

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 24:13-14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 24:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 24:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 24:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 24:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 24:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 24:13

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