“ Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard. ”
Hard - The primary meaning of the original word is permanence (compare Deuteronomy 21:4 ; Micah 6:2 ). This may be applied as here to the hard dry rock, to running streams, or to stagnant pools...
Proverbs 13. This chapter has little that is fresh and no new groups of proverbs. We have a well-known reference to the weariness of waiting for a hope that comes not ( Proverbs 13:12 and Proverb...
giveth favour. Illustrations: Abraham ( Genesis 23:10 ; Genesis 23:11 ); Joseph ( Genesis 39:2 ); Joshua ( Joshua 6:27 ); David ( 1 Samuel 18:14 ); Abigail ( 1 Samuel 25:3 ; 1 Samuel 25:18-34 );...
DISCOURSE: 781 THE WAY OF TRANSGRESSORS HARD Proverbs 13:15 . The way of transgressors is hard . THE Scriptures abound with weighty aphorisms, which deserve the deepest consideration. For the m...
Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard.
Good understanding giveth favour, &c.— A good understanding granteth favour, but the demeanor of the insolent is pertinacious. Schultens. The meaning of the verse seems to be this, says Bisho...
Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard. Good understanding giveth favour - both with God and man. But the way of transgressors (is) hard - rugged; literall...
2. Read, 'the desire of the treacherous is for violence' (RM).
Good understanding giveth favour. — Comp. the union of “wisdom” and “favour with God and man” ( Luke 2:52 ). The way of transgressors is hard. — Rough and barren as the valley described in Deut...
CHAPTER 14 PRIDE AND HUMILITY "A wise son heareth his father's instruction, but a scorner heareth not rebuke."- Proverbs 13:1 “Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth correction, but h...
Verse Proverbs 13:2 . Compare this with Proverbs 12:14 . As the words of a good man benefit himself as well as others, so the evil deeds of transgressors react upon themselves. Verse Proverbs 13:...
Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded. The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death. Good understanding g...
Good understanding giveth favour ,.... A good understanding in things natural and civil gives favour among men; and so a good understanding in divine and spiritual things gives a man favour among re...
Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors [is] hard. Ver. 15. Good understanding giveth favour. ] See this exemplified in Joseph, David, Daniel, Paul. Acts 27:43 ; Act 28...
Good understanding Discovering itself by a man's holy and righteous practices; giveth favour Maketh a man acceptable both to God and men; but the way of transgressors Their conduct, or manner o...
15 Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard. If we compare not only the end, but the way, we shall find that religion has the advantage; for, 1. The w...
Good understanding; discovering itself by a man's holy and righteous practices and ways, as appears from the opposition of the way of transgressors to it; and as words of understanding in this an...
Those Who Want Their Hopes And Desires Fulfilled Must Respond God's Wisdom And Understanding, Heeding Those Who Teach Them, And It Will Be To Them A Tree Of Life And Sweetness To Their Inner Being (...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 13:15 . Good understanding , rather “discretion.” Hard , “stony,” “uncultivated.” This is the generally received rendering, but the word often signifies “perpetual.” Mil...
Proverbs 13:1 . A wise son heareth his father's instruction. This maxim is in substance often repeated, it being of the last importance to hear the wisdom of a father proceeding from so much love,...
Good understanding giveth favour. A sound intellect I. The nature of a sound intellect. A good understanding must include four things. 1. Enlightenment. The soul without knowledge is not goo...
EXPOSITION Verse 13:1-15:19 Second section in this collection. Proverbs 13:1 A wise son heareth his father's instruction. The Authorized Version introduces the verb from the second m...
v. 15. Good understanding giveth favor, that is, proper prudence, true culture, causes men to have a high and kindly regard for those who possess it; but the way of transgressors is hard, the sel...
1 Samuel 18:14-16 ; Acts 7:10 ; Jeremiah 2:19 ; Luke 2:52 ; Proverbs 14:35 ; Proverbs 15:10 ; Proverbs 3:4 ; Proverbs 4:19 ; Psalms 95:9-11 ; Romans 6:21
Giveth — Makes a man acceptable to God. Rough — Offensive and hateful to God and men, as rough ways are to a traveller.