“ Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad. ”
Heaviness in the heart of man weigheth it down: but a (k) good word maketh it glad. (k) That is, words of comfort, or a cheerful mind which is declared by his words, rejoices a man, as a covetous mi...
Proverbs 12. Here we have a number of proverbs handling the favourite subject of retribution ( Proverbs 12:2 f., Proverbs 12:7 ; Proverbs 12:14 ; Proverbs 12:21 ; Proverbs 12:28 ). Several dea...
Heaviness . Anxiety (feminine) stoop . bowed down. Illustrations: Ezra ( Ezra 9:3 Ezra 10:6 ); Nehemiah ( Nehemiah 1:4 ); David ( Psalms 40:12 ); Jeremiah ( Jeremiah 8:18 ). maketh, &c. ....
Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad. Heaviness in the heart of a man maketh it stoop - Sorrow of heart, hopeless love, or a sense of God's displeasure - thes...
Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad. Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop (the it is feminine, though heart is masculine): but a good word m...
4. A crown, etc.] Possibly there may be a reference to the crown worn on their wedding-day by bride and bridegroom ( Song of Solomon 3:11 ; Song of Solomon 8:9 ). In Damascus the bridal crown cons...
Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop. — But, as this is not favourable to the spiritual life, we have warnings against excessive anxiety ( Matthew 6:34 ), and exhortations to cast all our...
CHAPTER 13 THE TONGUE "A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his MOUTH: and the doings of a man's hands shall be rendered unto him."- Proverbs 12:14 "In the transgression of the L...
Verse Proverbs 12:9 . That is to say, it matters little that one is not counted as of any importance by his neighbors if, nevertheless, he is able to keep a servant, that is, to employ someone to mi...
The lip of truth shall be established forever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment. Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy. There shall no evil ha...
Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop ,.... Either an anxious care and solicitude about living in the world, as the word m signifies; when it seizes a man's spirits, it depresses them, and k...
Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad. Ver. 25. Heaviness in the heart of a man maketh it stoop. ] Grief is like lead to the soul, - heavy and cold; it sink...
Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop Anxious cares and grief depress the spirit of a man, and disable him from exerting himself with any vigour in fulfilling his duty in his place and stat...
25 Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad. Here is, 1. The cause and consequence of melancholy. It is heaviness in the heart; it is a load of...
A compassionate or encouraging word from a friend or minister.
MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 12:25 HEAVINESS OF HEART AND ITS CURE I. The causes of “heaviness of heart” are many and various . It may arise, 1. From great bodily pain . The human mind and t...
Proverbs 12:4 . A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband, as illustrated at large in chap. 31. Proverbs 12:9 . He that is despised, and hath a servant. There are various comments here. He th...
Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad. The saddening and the succouring I. The saddening in life. There is a soul-crushing sadness here. 1. Personal a...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 12:1 Instruction ; correction, discipline, which shows a man his faults, gives him a lowly opinion of himself, and opens his mind to receive knowledge, especially the...
v. 25. Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop, it is readily bowed down by trouble and grief; but a good word maketh it glad, so that he straightens up from his grief and gains new courage...
2 Corinthians 2:4-7 ; Isaiah 50:4 ; Mark 14:33 ; Mark 14:34 ; Nehemiah 2:1 ; Nehemiah 2:2 ; Proverbs 14:10 ; Proverbs 15:13 ; Proverbs 15:15 ; Proverbs 15:23 ; Proverbs 17:22 ; Proverbs 1...
A good word — A compassionate or encouraging word.