Provérbios 24
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Provérbios 24
(Pro. 24:1-34) (Compare Pro 23:3, Pro 23:17; Psa 37:1).
Provérbios 24:2
studieth--meditateth. talk . . . mischief--Their expressed purposes are to do evil.
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(Compare Pro 14:1; Isa 54:14). house--including the family.
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by knowledge . . . riches-- (Pro 8:18; Pro 21:20).
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The general statement (Ecc 9:16, Ecc 9:18) is specially illustrated (compare Pro 21:22; Psa 144:1).
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(Compare Pro 14:16). in the gate--(Compare Pro 22:22).
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So called even if he fails to do evil.
Provérbios 24:9
Same thought varied.
Provérbios 24:10
Literally, "If thou fail in the day of straits (adversity), strait (or, small) is thy strength," which is then truly tested.
Provérbios 24:11-12
Neglect of known duty is sin (Jam 4:17). ready--literally, "bowing down" to be slain--that is, unjustly. God's retributive justice cannot be avoided by professed ignorance.
Provérbios 24:13
As delicious food whets the appetite, so should the rewards of wisdom excite us to seek it.
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reward--literally, "after part," the proper result (compare Pro 23:18; Psa 37:37-38).
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The plots of the wicked against the good, though partially, shall not be fully successful (Psa 37:24); while the wicked, falling under penal evil, find no help.
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seven times--often, or many (Pro 6:16, Pro 6:31; Pro 9:1).
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Yet let none rejoice over the fate of evildoers, lest God punish their wrong spirit by relieving the sufferer (compare Pro 17:5; Job 31:29).
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(Psa 37:1, Psa 37:38; Psa 18:28).
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candle--or, "prosperity"; it shall come to an end (Pro 13:9; Pro 20:20).
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A warning against impiety and resistance to lawful rule (Rom 13:1-7; Pe1 2:17). meddle . . . change--(Compare Margin), literally, "mingle not yourself," avoid the society of restless persons.
Provérbios 24:22
their calamity, &c.--either what God and the king inflict, or what changers and their company suffer; better the first.
Provérbios 24:23
These . . . wise--literally, "are of the wise," as authors (compare "Psalms of David," Hebrew). "These" refers to the verses following, Pro 24:24-34. to have respect--literally, "to discern faces," show partiality,
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of which an example is justifying the wicked, to which is opposed, rebuking him, which has a blessing.
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kiss his lips--love and obey, do homage (Psa 2:12; Sol 8:1). right answer--literally, "plain words" (compare Pro 8:9), opposed to deceptive, or obscure.
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Prepare . . . in the field--Secure, by diligence, a proper support, and then build; provide necessaries, then comforts, to which a house rather pertained, in a mild climate, permitting the use of tents.
Provérbios 24:28
Do not speak even truth needlessly against any, and never falsehood.
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Especially avoid retaliation (Mat 5:43-45; Rom 12:17).
Provérbios 24:30-31
A striking picture of the effects of sloth.
Provérbios 24:32
From the folly of the sluggard learn wisdom (Pro 6:10-11). Next: Proverbs Chapter 25