“ Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour. ”
Fools make a mock - The verb in the Heb. is singular, the noun plural. The King James Version assumes that the number is altered to individualize the application of the maxim. Others translate it...
Fools make a mock at (f) sin: but among the righteous [there is] favour. (f) Does not know the grievousness of it, nor God's judgments against the same.
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...
make. mock. The verb is singular, and probably the plural "fools" means "A great fool makes. mock", &c. sin . guilt. The proper name for the trespass offering. Hebrew. 'asham (App-44.) Illu...
DISCOURSE: 782 THE FOLLY OF MAKING A MOCK AT SIN Proverbs 14:9 . Fools make a mock at sin . MAN in his first creation was formed after the Divine image; and there was not in his soul the least...
Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour. Fools make a mock at sin - And only fools would do so. But he that makes a sport of sinning, will find it no sport to suffer the v...
Fools make a mock at sin— Or, according to others, Fools excuse or palliate sin. Houbigant reads the verses The dwelling of fools is guilt, of the just is favour.
Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour. Fools make a mock at sin - ( Proverbs 10:23 ; Proverbs 2:14 ; Isaiah 3:9 .) The Hebrew my be also translated, 'sin (i:e.,...
1. The prosperity of the family depends on the wife ( Proverbs 31:10-31 ).
Fools make a mock at sin. — Rather, perhaps, sin mocks fools (they miss the gratification they expected from it); or, the sin-offering mocks them. God does not accept it, and so they have the t...
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...
Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour. This is a sweet verse, and fully explained by every gracious soul in his own feeling's. Who knows the secret transactions between G...
Fools make a mock at sin ,.... At sinful actions, their own or others; they make light of them, a jest of them, call evil good, and good evil; take pleasure in doing them themselves, and in those th...
Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous [there is] favour. Ver. 9. Fools make a mock of sin. ] A sport or pastime of it. Pro 10:23 See Trapp on " Pro 10:23 " They dance with the devi...
Fools make a mock at sin Wicked men, here meant by fools, please and divert themselves with their own and other men's sins, which is a high offence to God and all good men. Or, as others render the...
9 Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour. See here, 1. How wicked people are hardened in their wickedness: they make a mock at sin. They make a laughin...
Fools, wicked men, as appears from their opposition to the righteous in the next clause, make a mock at sin; please and support themselves with their own and other men's sins, which is a high off...
We Are To Follow The Ways Of The Wise And Shrewd, Not The Ways Of The Foolish ( Proverbs 14:7-16 ). The whole emphasis of Proverbs is on following God's wisdom. By doing so the shrewd man understa...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 14:8 . Deceit , or “deception.” Proverbs 14:9 . Many translators read this verse, “The sacrifice,” or “the sin-offering, makes a sport of,” or “mocks fools.” So Zöck...
Proverbs 14:9 I. The various ways in which men make a mock at sin may be summed up under two heads: by their words, and by their actions. We show our scorn and contempt of a thing in our words, wh...
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...
Fools make a mock at sin. Thinking lightly of sin Breathing an atmosphere tainted with moral evil, seeing and hearing sin in our daily walks, we are in no small danger of overlooking its malign...
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. 9. Fools make a mock at sin, literally, "the sacrifice mocks the fools"; for even if such ungodly people offer up burnt offerings for expiation and atonement, it is useless, it fails of its obje...
Job 15:16 ; Job 34:7-9 ; Jude 1:18 ; Proverbs 1:22 ; Proverbs 10:23 ; Proverbs 12:2 ; Proverbs 13:15 ; Proverbs 26:18 ; Proverbs 26:19 ; Proverbs 3:4 ; Proverbs 30:20 ; Proverbs 8:35 ; R...
Favour — They find favour both with God and men.