“ The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a pratingb fool shall fall. ”
A prating ... fall - Better, as in the margin. Inward self-contained wisdom is contrasted with self-exposed folly.
Proverbs 10:2 ( cf. Psalms 3:7 ). righteousness: the growth of the conception of righteousness is an important subject. As in the Pss., there is a specific class the righteous opposed to the...
will receive, &c. Illustrations: Abraham ( Genesis 22 ; Hebrews 11:8 ; Hebrews 11:17 ); David ( 2 Samuel 7 ); widow ( 1 Kings 17:10-16 ); Rechabites ( Jeremiah 35:6-10 . Compare Proverbs 23:...
The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall. A prating fool shall fall - This clause is repeated in the tenth verse. The wise man will receive the commandment: but the...
The wise in heart will receive commandments— He who is wise in heart, will receive the commandment; he who has foolish lips, will stubbornly refuse it. Houbigant.
The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall. The wise in heart will receive commandments - namely, those of God, and of the servants of God, as to the right reg...
Here we reach the first collection of what were supposed to be Solomon's proverbs. Most of them consist of two lines parallel to each other. The parallelism is one of contrast, or agreement, or expla...
A prating fool ( ‘evîl ). (See above, on Proverbs 1:7 .)
CHAPTER 11 WEALTH "Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death." Proverbs 10:2 "O'er weening statesmen have full long relied On fleets and armies and exter...
the Righteous and the Wicked Proverbs 10:1-16 Wealth has its advantages, which are more than apparent. The rich man's wealth is his strong city , Proverbs 10:15 ; but the treasures which have...
Here begin the proverbs proper. In this collection they are antithetical, They present a sharp contrast between wisdom and folly in the outworking of such in practical life. Seeing that this is indee...
He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich. He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame. Bles...
The wise in heart will receive commandments ,.... Such who have true wisdom in the hidden part of the heart, of which the fear of the Lord is the beginning: these will not only, as good subjects, ho...
The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall. Ver. 8. The wise in heart shall receive commandment, ] i.e., Submit to God's holy word without replies and cavils. Th...
The wise, &c., will receive commandments Is ready to hear and obey the precepts of God and men. But a prating fool One who is slow to hear, and swift to speak, who, instead of receiving good...
Marks of Wisdom and of Folly. 8 The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall. He...
Will receive commandments; is ready to hear and obey the counsels and precepts of God, and of men, by which means he shall stand fast and live. A prating fool; one who is slow to hear and swift t...
Subheading. Proverbs 10:1 ‘The Proverbs of Solomon.' Here we have the heading for this subsection. It is brief and to the point, for Solomon has already been more fully described in Proverbs...
MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 10:8 THE DOER AND THE TALKER I. A definition of a wise man . He is one that “will receive commandments.” The reception of commandments implies a commander, and a wi...
Proverbs 10:1 . The Proverbs of Solomon. The nine preseding Chapter s may be regarded as a vestibule to the temple. Wisdom has been personified, and folly thrown into the darker shades. We have ha...
The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall. The wise take advice, fools only give it Here is one of the most valuable results of wisdom. It is not what it gives,...
EXPOSITION Verse 1-22:16 Part III . FIRST GREAT COLLECTION (375) OF SOLOMONIC PROVERBS . Verse 1-12:28 First section. The sections are noted by their commencing usually with t...
v. 8. The wise in heart will receive commandments, showing himself ready to be instructed and guided in the right way; but a prating fool, a person of foolish lips, shall fall, be overthrown, b...
Ecclesiastes 10:12 ; James 3:13 ; Proverbs 1:5 ; Proverbs 12:1 ; Proverbs 14:8 ; Proverbs 18:6 ; Proverbs 18:7 ; Proverbs 9:9 ; Proverbs 10:10 ; Proverbs 12:13 ; Proverbs 13:3 ; Proverbs...
Who receive — Is ready to hear and obey the precepts of God and men. Fall — Into mischief.