A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes ( Proverbs 18:1-6 ). Proverbs 18:1. III. And she said, "Well, now, honey, do you think you understand?" This word, falling from heaven on the busy life of man, is echoed back from every quarter in a universal acknowledgment of its justness. This scripture reveals a crook in the creature that God made upright. Novalis. It prevents waste of material wealth. One of the many evils of poverty. And in the same spirit and by the same rule, otherwise applied, had Felix done well to defer hearing Pauls defence until Pauls accusers were present. Aristides, they tell us, would lend but one ear to anyone who accused an absent party, and used to hold his hand on the other, intimating that he reserved one ear for the absentee accused. Cicero, the greatest orator, save one, of antiquity, has left it on record, as we are pertinently reminded on the Essays on Liberty, that he always studied his adversaries case with as great intensity as his own, if not still greater. How many times we have run into it to find safety. There can be no doubt that each has its peculiar temptations (see chap. Studylight has an interesting tool called "Verse-by-Verse Bible Commentary" - This allows you to quickly see the comments from multiple resources without having to leave the page. A man's gift makes room for him and brings him before great men. But Samuel searched him, and laid open his rebellion. V. THE NAME JESUS IS GREEK FOR JOSHUA JEHOVAH SHUA. The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook. Thither their eyes look, thither their hands are stretched, thither their hearts carry them. A man to have friends has to show himself friendly. The word also here used may seem to refer this verse to that which goeth before it; and then it is a further description of a talebearer. Verse 1. Proverbs 19:21, MSG. (1) He who separateth himself from others seeks his own desire, and rushes forward against all wise counsel: a warning against self-will and the self-assertion which exults in differing from the received customs and opinions of mankind. The wife of Potiphar seemed just in her cause when she declared that Joseph left his garment in her hand and fled. Many have ruined their lives by not ruling their mouths. Proverbs 4:3). But the righteous in any distress runneth presently unto it. Proverbs 11:28. A man who does it proclaims that he values very lightly the reputation of those concerned, and is often a robber of what is more to a man than his purse, viz. Surely then if we have any desire, we shall separate ourselves from the cloudy atmosphere around us, that we may have fellowship with these happy investigators of the Divine mysteries.Bridges. It prevents waste of human life. "He that separates himself follows after his own desire, but against all sound wisdom he shows his teeth."-. Whoso findeth a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of the LORD ( Proverbs 18:21-22 ). )how incorrectly is shown by the constant repetition of the verb derived from the same root in the . But they who have already found it are so affected with the worth of it, so directed by the light of it, as that they still seek more, still get more.Jermin. If one member of the body politic, by the position which he holds and the ability which he possesses, is able to exercise a very powerful influence in the kingdom for weal or for woe, men watch him narrowly and jealously to see how he uses his power, and if they are anxious for the well-being of the State they endeavour to restrain him when he is going wrong and stimulate him when he is using his influence for the right. These elements often appear together.Miller. We must separate ourselves from all those things which would divert us from or retard us in the pursuit, retire out of the noise of this world's vanities, and then seek and intermeddle with all the means and instructions of wisdom, be willing to take pains and try all the methods of improving ourselves, be acquainted with a variety of opinions, that we may prove all things and hold fast that which is good. Read Joo 15:7 bible commentary from Treasury of Scripture Knowledge by Samuel Bagster FREE on BiblePortal.com I. Wicked men do come into places of power and influence. The heart is the core of any human being and is the true measure of who we are. i "Et in omne solidum dentes destringei", Schultens. They know their friend, and to them it is enough that he has been a sufferer; they take it for granted that he must be in the right. He seeks according to his desire, and intermeddles with every business, pretends to pass a judgment upon every man's matter. Proverbs 27:1-27. A man's gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men ( Proverbs 18:15-16 ). Self-love is the twist in the heart within, and self-interest is the side to which the variation from righteousness steadily tends. The heart makes the lie, deceiving first the man himself, and thereafter his neighbours. Such a gift tends to the exaltation of the man who possesses it. 3 When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach. III. In every cause, the first information, if it have dwelt for a little in the judges mind, takes deep root, and colours and takes possession of it, insomuch that it will hardly be washed out unless either some clear falsehood be detected or some deceit in the statement thereof.Bacon. Proverbs 18:19. A wood gathers wood, like all vegetable or vital growths. . Let David be your example. They suspend their plumb, not from the middle, but from one edge of the rule, and that the edge which lies next their own interests.Arnot. II. On this subject see also Homiletics on chap. Exalt thyself; He'll abase you. He currently serves now as the senior pastor of Calvary Chapel Santa Barbara. He that hath commanded to cease from labour, hath much more commanded to cease from strife. They become unreasonable in discussion and blind to the viewpoints of others. He separates himself from all outward hindrances, vain company, trifling amusements or studies, needless engagements, that he may seek and intermeddle with all wisdom. God exalts those who willingly take the lowest place (10-12).Strength of mind and spirit is more important in the battle of life than strength of body. It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment. 18 Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment. 20 Whoever gives thought to the word 2 p will discover good, and blessed is he q who trusts in the L ord. No other member of the human body can lay claim to such wide-spread and regal authority. The power of words over those who hear them. The author of this proverb was a polygamisthis great experience qualified him to give an opinion upon the subjectbut we do not here find him dwelling upon the satisfaction of the harem, but upon the blessedness of a wife. How canst thou intermeddle with the great wisdom of knowing thyself, if thy whole mind be full of this worlds chaff and vanity? Ver. The favour of a good parent is a thing prized highly by a dutiful child, and enhances the value of every other blessing. c 4 There is the cruelty of rage and the flood of . And, like their Divine Master, they know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary (Isaiah 50:4), and thus that which flows from their lips is as refreshing and healthful to weary and struggling men and women on the highway of life as the living, cooling watercourse is to the dusty and thirsty traveller. 69.]. Seeing, then, what issues of life and death are dependent upon this king, it is manifest that men should keep him in absolute control; if so much depends upon his action he ought to be under the strictest supervision. And indeed, as they sound, they are commonly so pleasing, that they easily slip down into the heart, where they are readily entertained.Jermin. If this be so with man, who shall judge of God and censure His obscurer revelations? 3. They're starting to explain their situation and we assume that, "Oh, yes, this is what they want to know," and we start giving out all these worthless information.Like the little child who came in to her mother one day and said, "Mother, where did I come from?" When the Lord reckons with His servants, He will account that talent mis-used which is used for self-aggrandisement alone. The sentence means that when a man gets separated from his place in the universe he seeks, or has a pursuit, after his present bent or longing. (Romans 11:33). It is commonly supposed that ministers cannot repent, although they do not claim, like the Pope, the gift of infallibility; and there is too much reason for the supposition, provided it be not restricted to that order of men; for the same pride that makes one set of men stubborn in their wrong opinions is to be found in other men, although it is not perhaps so much strengthened by particular circumstances, nor so visible in their conduct, because they meet not with the same temptations to discover it. None but foolish men and children ever play with fire, and when they do it they generally suffer themselves first, but they are often not the only sufferers. I. Solitude is indispensable to the attainment of wisdom. For their parts, all that comes in finds its way off from them as fast as it comes, and many a time faster! Some of the most criminal and violent people have thought themselves pure in their own eyes. The poor inconsiderate fools never think what they are about. This fact has often tried the faith of righteous men. Some take it as a rebuke to an affected singularity. He finds that he can make little progress in the investigation of Divine and natural things, if he have much to do with secular or trifling matters: he therefore separates himself as well from unprofitable pursuits as from frivolous company, and then enters into the spirit of his pursuit; is not satisfied with superficial observances, but examines the substance and essence, as far as possible, of those things which have been the objects of his desire. tushigyah, lit. Each last strong speech comes out victorious. And so it stops the contentions. Proverbs 18:21. He who quarrels with our Surety snaps to the lock of a citadel; and then, alas, it shall be, just as the wild rush of embittered enemies should have roused him to enter in.Miller. I. Polygamy cannot be recommended by those who have practised it. He has before mentioned some of its advantages (see chap. We must try to fathom the profound meaning which is hidden under this simple but striking proverb. 1. Before that he served as director and teacher at Calvary Chapel Bible College, Germany, following more than 20 years of pastoral ministry. If a man possesses an estate beneath whose surface he knows there lies buried much precious mineral treasure, he must bring much wisdom and skill into play before he has the treasure in his hand. 2 A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion. I shall always endeavour to make choice of such a woman for my spouse who hath first made choice of Christ as a spouse for herself; that none may be made one flesh with me who is not made one spirit with Christ my Saviour. 1. 2. Can't agree on something, we'll flip a coin. When these have lost their energy, there is nothing to lift him up, and existence becomes an intolerable burden. But although it is only that, it is a very real and terrible barrier. It is to a man of this stagnant and lazy temperament an exertion quite unbearable to keep his mind so long on the stretch as to listen even to a statement, and still more to an argument or pleading, that cannot be finished in a breath and done with. A bed of down cannot do much for a man whose body is racked with painit can do nothing for him whose soul is bowed down by sorrow, or smitten with a fear of death. Proverbs 18. 4 The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring . A man that hath friends must show himself friendly ( Proverbs 18:24 ): That's basic now. And surely, if thou be courageously patient, whatsoever thou mayest lose yet thou enjoyest that which thou hast; or, if thou hast nothing, yet thou shalt enjoy thyself, thou shalt enjoy the comfort of thy own spirit. Here the righteousthe man justified by the grace, and sanctified by the Spirit, of Godrunneth every day, every hour; realizing at once his fearful danger, and his perfect security.Bridges. The cold-hearted, speculative professor has his flowsometimes a torrent of words, yet without a drop of profitable matter; chilling, even when doctrinally correct; without life, unction, or love. John MacArthur is the pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, as well as an author, conference speaker, president of The Master's University and Seminary, and featured teacher with the Grace to You media ministry. Jeroboamthe second; who died in the fifteenth year of Uzziah's forty-one years' reign.From his time forth all Israel's kings worshipped false gods: Zachariah (2 Kings 15:9), Menahem (2 Kings 15:18), Pekahiah (2 Kings 15:18- :), Pekah (2 Kings 15:28), Hoshea (2 Kings 17:2).As Israel was most flourishing externally under Jeroboam . This thought is still clearer in the verse that follows:Death and life are in the power (literally the hand) of the tongue. There can be no doubt that mens conduct (for tongue is but the leading instrument of it) determines death or life, yet, in spite of the adventurous hazard, their love to it (or literally, just as they love this or that sort of tongue), they shall eat its fruit, and incur, of course, fearful responsibilities.Miller. They who thrive on slender means, make the most of what they have; whereas they who live in the midst of abundance get into habits of carelessness, and of the prodigal use of what they have.Wardlaw. Proverbs 5:1-14 Commentary Proverbs 5 Commentary Proverbs 5:15-23 Commentary Proverbs 6 Commentary Proverbs 6:20-35 Commentary Proverbs 7:1-27 Commentary Proverbs 13 Commentary Proverbs 15 Commentary Proverbs 18:10 Commentary Proverbs 18:11 Commentary Proverbs 28:13 Commentary Proverbs 29:18 Commentary He that is first in his own cause seems just; but his neighbor comes and searches him. a. The angels smile at the way the sinner cavils. Grant that both are obscure. Time is to human creatures a very precious commodity, because the longest life lived in this world is comparatively short. III. It is not only a strong tower, but our only defence. Blind passion is not to make the selection at random.Fausset. As setting forth an indispensable condition of making and keeping friends. If the soul, therefore, would lie quiet, and yield to its own light, it would be joined by what is higher, and would contain, or control its own malady; God helping, as He would, would check, and get the better of it; but a spirit of upbraidingand by this is meant precisely the quarrel (chap. 31, p. The words of the wise bring refreshment, but those of a fool or a gossip bring destruction (4-8).Those who leave work undone are almost as bad as those who wreck what already has been done (9). The readings and expositions of this verse are many. Time for the story of the birds and the bees and all." here yields no satisfactory sense. Dr. Constable's Expository Notes. 1. When a man enters into the marriage relation according to the Divine intentionmaking a woman his wife in the true sense of the wordhe not only adds to his own comfort and consults his own interest, but he does that which is pleasing to Godhe takes a step upon which he can fearlessly ask for the Divine blessing. Through desire (through self-willed and self-seeking desire of wisdom)wisdom, Heb. In this proverb he indirectly condemns himself and warns others by his own example. It matters not in what condition man is found, whether in riches or in poverty, whether ignorant and rude or highly civilized and educated, he needs the friendship of one or more of his fellow creatures. So she sent the little girl out and she got into this psyche books on how to explain the facts of life to your child and all and boned them all up. There is a secular and a spiritual in every proverb. A quarrelsome, passionate man is a fool, and he is also a cruel man, but he is not so cruel as the talebearer. It must be plumb, rejoined the builder, somewhat piqued, for I have laid every stone by the plumb-line. Suiting the action to the word he grasped the rule, laid it along his work, and triumphantly pointed to the lead vibrating and settling down precisely on the cut that marks the middle. All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes: By instinct, men and women justify themselves and see their own ways as pure. Folly's feast 9:13-18. But contention builds around each one a more impregnable barrier than the highest walls of the strongest fortress. 19 n It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor. The matter of fact is here statedand there are natural enough reasons to account for it. That, of course, is Jesus Christ. He trembles at the thought of eternal condemnation. Verse 7. 3 When wickedness comes, contempt comes also, and with dishonor comes disgrace. When two talk in diverse languages they are known to be men of diverse countries; but when the poor and rich talk together, so different is their speech that one would hardly think them to be both men, and of the same nature. This is true in relation to any and every kind of evil to which men are exposed. But yet where the spring of those waters is a well-spring of wisdom, though sometimes it send forth deep waters, yet it doth not always; for that were to overwhelm the hearers. Suppose your eyes are good. The last clause of this verse may be divided into two smaller ones and placed in apposition, thus: a bubbling brook,a fountain of wisdom. It maketh room for him in the worldit opens up to him many opportunities of social advancement, and it bringeth him before great men,men who are either great in wealth and position or intellectually and morally great, or are great in both senses of the word. And not less is economy of means. According to Mr. Stuart Mill, it might be plausibly maintained that in almost every one of the leading controversies, past or present, in social philosophy, both sides were right in what they affirmed, though wrong in what they denied; and that if either could have been made to take the others views in addition to his own, little more would have been needed to make its doctrine correct. Nicodemus did well to start the seasonable query, Doth our law judge any man before it hear him, and know what he doth? Festus did well to protest that it was not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die before that he which was accused had the accusers face to face, and had licence to answer for himself concerning the charge laid against him. Riches are no defence against a mans most powerful enemies. But there is one friend who will stick closer than a brother. But a derivative from the same root, and differing only slightly in form, is found in Jeremiah 51:20, and is there translated by 'battle-axe' (or maul, R.V. Proverbs 16:2. d. 21 Whoever despises the hungry comes up short, but happy the one who is kind to . Verse 9 . The separated one here is the impenitent. That all sorrow of heart does not crush a man. Herod feasts in the palace, while John the Baptist is beheaded in the dungeon. Time, when gone, never returns. This is but another way of putting the old proverb that One tale is good till another is told. And this does not necessarily imply that the first teller of the tale is an untruthful person, but we are so apt to apprehend facts through the medium of our own prejudicesto see things in the light in which we wish to see themthat even two truthful men may sometimes vary much in their version of the same occurrence. Proverbs 18:16. Genesis 13:11). Warning against consorting with sinners 1:8-19. Casting his eye along the work, as he laid down his tools and adjusted his apron, he detected a defect, and instantly called out to his senior partner that the wall was not plumb. 4 The words of the mouth are deep waters, Through desire a man, having separated himself The original is difficult and obscure. Who cannot rest till he good fellows find,He breaks up house, turns out of doors his mind.. The nearest translation to the words is perhaps the following: "He who is separated shall seek the desired thing, (i.e., the object of his desire,) and shall intermeddle (mingle himself) with all realities or all essential knowledge." What the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by His name. He gave it to Christs humanity. Is harder to be won; these words are not in the original, but have been inserted to supply the sense. One greater than Solomon astonished the people by the clearness, no less than by the depth of the waters (Matthew 7:28-29). What doest thou here? Much is there to be inquired into and pondered. Proverbs 18:1 He who isolates himself pursues selfish desires; he rebels against all sound judgment. The answer is plain. I. GOD's name is a place of protection good people can run there and be safe. Proverbs 18:1 warns us of the consequences of using words carelessly. At the mere dictate of desire is but one noun with a preceding particle, meaning after, or, according to The noun means a longing. If a tree is to become well-proportionedif it is to spread out its branches on every side so that its girth is to be proportioned to its height, it must have spacea degree of separation is indispensable to its perfect development. The spirit of a man may control his sickness, but a spirit of upbraiding, who can carry that? To give all up, and simply lie back and murmur, is bad even for worldly disorders; but Solomon derives out of it a much more profound spiritual sense. But if otherwise it cannot be ordered then let a lot be the compromiser of them. Because that which flows from his lips is beneficial and refreshing to others. Heads, we will. Because it is hard to break through. A sinner stands dead like a blasted oak, but a saint not only lives by growing, but grows by living.Miller. Run therefore to God by praying, not fainting. since against everything stable he just lets himself roll. The whole meaning is that the lost man is in high chase under the spur of appetite, and ruthlessly bears down everything stable.Miller. Although the Divine Creator gives to all men liberally, He does not give to all equally, but seeing that man is not responsible for this inequality, those who are most richly endowed should find in the fact of their superiority matter for gratitude and not for self-glorification. They are ever marvelling how other folks do. He has joy in being the originator of fresh and living thoughts, and in being able by clothing them in words to impart them to others. Poverty seems as universal as disease and death, and must be referred to the same source. The tongue of the tempter can drag its victims down, body and soul, to hell, while the tongue which is touched with a living coal from off the altar of God can be the means of persuading men to be reconciled to their Heavenly Father, and so of making them partakers of eternal life. It may be taken by superior physical force, it may be surprised and captured, or its inhabitants may be starved into a surrender. Proverbes 18:1 Interlinaire Proverbes 18:1 Multilingue Proverbios 18:1 Espagnol Proverbes 18:1 Franais Sprueche 18:1 Allemand Proverbes 18:1 Chinois Proverbs 18:1 Anglais Bible Apps Bible Hub Version Louis Segond 1910 La Bible David Martin 1744 Darby Bible courtesy of CCEL.org. So with obtaining knowledge. And when we think not only of the wounds thus inflicted, and the lives thus cut off, but of the wounded hearts and darkened lives of those who mourn them, we must allow that any means of ending contention is better than permitting it to work its deadly work. Infirmity, i.e., sickness, disease of body. I. i. He must work, he must work in harmony with certain fixed laws if he is to become possessor of the treasure. It actually brought me before Begin last week. Wherefore, when the mighty strive, and might of reason standeth on both sides equally, being too strong for man to decide, let the Almighty by His lot decide it.Jermin. Findeth implies the rarity of the thing obtained (Ecclesiastes 7:27-28), and the need of circumspection in the search. If he would grow wise in the mysteries of the natural world he must oftentimes shut himself away from the haunts of men, and ponder the manifold phenomena which creation presents to him, and endeavour to unravel her secrets. Such a field is the tongue of man, with this difference, that a man is obliged to eat the fruit of it, although it should be worse than hemlock. Thus it was under the old dispensation. The languages of several countries are not so different as of the poor and rich man in one and the same country, and a stranger of another land is not such a foreigner as in the same land a poor man standing at the door of the rich. 11 The rich, in their conceit, imagine that their wealth. all that is solid and stable: subsistence, essence, existence. Their day of power is short-lived. 9 They are a garland to grace your head. Men cannot live a life of isolation and know anything of the enjoyment of life. God is not far from every one of us (Acts 17:27), and being ever near, is always accessible. A man's gift [given in love or courtesy] makes room for him And brings him before great men. But suppose your eyes are bad. II. But at other times it is as a flowing brook, more shallow for capacity, but more forcible also in the stream of it, and either by persuasive exhortation carrying on the hearers to a pursuit of virtue and godliness, or else by a dissuasive reproof carrying them away from the practice of wickedness, and in both washing away the stains of their sinful lives. Doubtless there is secular truth in all this The disgraced citizen is often the most reproachful.Miller. He that was pleased to make the Sabbath of rest, is also pleased with those who make a Sabbath of peace. So the Jewish commentators generally. Friends who dearly love each other and are one in spirit sometimes find nothing between them but a few barsthe iron grating of a dungeon may be all that keeps them apart. He came at the appointed time, laid the foundations according to the specifications, and proceeded with his building, course upon course, according to the approved methods of his craft. Whether it be a brother by race, place, or grace; those oft that loved most dearly, if once the devil cast his club between them, hate most deadly. As for brethren by profession, and that of the true religion too, among Protestants, you shall meet with many divisions, and those prosecuted with a great deal of bitterness. David has been happy to be part of the Blue Letter Bible . CRITICAL NOTES. Proverbs 18:1.Through desire, etc.The readings and expositions of this verse are many. That it prevents waste of time. Because it is the only thing that separates them. is the same one who wastes his life away. ], ". The favour of God is a fortune for a period which extends beyond that named in the marriage vow, it is a fortune which no creature can afford to despise, and a blessing which those who know Him prize before all things in earth or heaven. 1. Because his soul is in communication with an exhaustless source of spiritual life and wisdom. Men would justly say that the house or the picture had as yet no existence, and therefore could not be judged. The words of a mans mouth are dark as the deep waters of a pool, or tank; but the well-spring of wisdom is as a flowing brook, bright and clear. So taken the verse presents a contrast like that of Jeremiah 2:13.Plumptre. Leviticus 19; Proverbs 29; Matthew 13:24-58. 21 The wise of heart is called discerning, and sweetness of speech r . 18 m Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. And in no case is this more true, than with regard to offices in the Church. It sees noneno, never. So is it with contention, or a dispute in words. There is a sense in which we may understand the language, even taking the former clause of the twentieth verse literallyA mans belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth. You may smile and say, A man cannot live upon words! 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