“ Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. ”
Reproach - The word so rendered has this sense in the Targum of Leviticus 20:17 . Its more usual meaning is “mercy,” “piety;” hence, some have attached to the word rendered “sin” the sense of “s...
Proverbs 14. In this, as in each of the preceding Chapter s in this section, aphorisms on the moral government of the world come first in number. There are rather more in this chapter of a politica...
exalteth... But, &c. Illustrations: Deuteronomy 4:6 . Deu 4:28. 1 Kings 9:7-9 ; 2 Chronicles 15:3 2 Chronicles 15:5 , 2 Chronicles 15:6 . compare Joshua 1:8 ; Joshua 10:42 ; Joshua 23:...
Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. But sin is a reproach to any people - I am satisfied this is not the sense of the original, וחסד לאמים חטאת vechesed leummim ch...
But a sin is a reproach to any people— Schultens renders this, And the beneficence of nations is their expiation; which appears to be perfectly agreeable to the Hebrew: nor can there be a more pl...
Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin (is) a reproach to any people - Hebrew, 'to peoples,' plural; whereas "a nation"...
1. The prosperity of the family depends on the wife ( Proverbs 31:10-31 ).
Righteousness. — See above, on Proverbs 10:2 .
CHAPTER 15 THE INWARD UNAPPROACHABLE LIFE "The heart knoweth its own bitterness and a stranger doth not intermeddle with its joy."- Proverbs 14:10 "Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful, and...
Verse Proverbs 14:7 . The sense of this proverb is entirely altered in the Revision. The Authorized reading would make it mean that if a man is perceived to be devoid of knowledge he should be aband...
He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he. Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good. In all labour there...
Righteousness exalteth a nation ,.... Administered by the government, and exercised by subjects towards one another; doing justice between man and man: this exalts a nation, as it did the people of...
Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin [is] a reproach to any people. Ver. 34. Righteousness exalteth a nation. ] True religion and the power of godliness is the beauty and bulwark of a state; D...
Righteousness exalteth a nation A righteous administration of the government of it, impartial equity between man and man, public countenance given to religion, the general practice and profession o...
34 Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. Note, 1. Justice, reigning in a nation, puts an honour upon it. A righteous administration of the governmen...
Exalteth a nation; maketh it honourable in the eyes of God, and of all other nations, as it did the ancient Romans. A reproach to any people; brings contempt and ruin upon them by provoking both...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 14:34 . The Hebrew word for reproach means also “mercy.” Hence Gejer and Miller translate “Mercy for nations is the sin-offering,” the word sin being often used to e...
Proverbs 14:1 . Every wise woman buildeth her house, as Proverbs 9:1 , by training up her children to industry, piety and virtue. She is their first governess, and daily instils the elements of k...
Righteousness exalteth a nation. The advantages of religion to societies There cannot be a greater prejudice raised against anything than to have it represented as inconvenient and hurtful to o...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 14:1 Every wise woman buildeth her house. Wise women order well their household matters and their families; they have an important influence, and exercise it beneficia...
v. 34. Righteousness exalteth a nation, the exercise of true moral uprightness in every department of a nation's activity will set such a nation up on high, tend to give it material prosperity, for...
Deuteronomy 28:1-14 ; Deuteronomy 28:15-68 ; Deuteronomy 29:18-28 ; Deuteronomy 4:6-8 ; Ezekiel 16:1-63 ; Ezekiel 23:49 ; Hosea 13:1 ; Jeremiah 2:2-25 ; Judges 2:6-14 ; Psalms 107:34