Proverbs 15:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men? ”

• Proverbs 15:11 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (d) Hell and destruction [are] before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men? (d) There is nothing so deep or secret that can be hid from the eyes of God, much less man's tho...

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• Proverbs 15:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Proverbs 15. This chapter makes no new departure. Proverbs concerning the moral government of the world again occupy the chief place. One ( Proverbs 15:11 ) is noteworthy as showing an extended con...

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• Proverbs 15:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Hell . the grave. Hebrew. Sheol. App-35. children . sons. men. Hebrew. 'adam. App-14.

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• Proverbs 15:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men? Hell and destruction - שאול ואבדון sheol vaabaddon. Hades, the invisible world, the place of separate...

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• Proverbs 15:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men? Hell and destruction (Hebrew, Sheol and Abaddon) (are) before the Lord. "Destruction" - i:e., t...

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• Proverbs 15:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  1. Grievous ] i.e. annoying. 'If one pour in hot water let the other pour in cold.'

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• Proverbs 15:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Hell and destruction. — “ Hell” is here the general name for the unseen world ( Hades ) beyond the grave, so called, according to one derivation, from its always “asking” for more victims, and never...

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• Proverbs 15:11 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER 16 A PASSIONATE DISPOSITION "A soft answer turneth away wrath: but a grievous word stirreth up anger." In the LXX there is another clause inserted at the beginning.- Proverbs 15:1 "A m...

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• Proverbs 15:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Kind Words and Glad Hearts Proverbs 15:1-17 A soft answer; the tongue of the wise; a wholesome tongue; the lips of the wise; the prayer of the upright -these keywords touch one of the greate...

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• Proverbs 15:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Verse Proverbs 15:11 . This is a simple method of drawing attention to God's perfect knowledge of all the deepest and hidden things. If that which is most full of mystery to us is perfectly known to...

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• Proverbs 15:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so. The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight. The way of...

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• Proverbs 15:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Hell and destruction [are] before the Lord ,.... Or "the grave" a, which is the pit of destruction; where bodies being put, putrefy, and are destroyed by worms: this is known by the Lord, even the g...

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• Proverbs 15:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Hell and destruction [are] before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men? Ver. 11. Hell and destruction are before the Lord. ] "Tophet is prepared of old"; and wherever it...

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• Proverbs 15:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way God's way, emphatically called the way here, as also Psalms 119:1 , and elsewhere. He abhors reproof, because it is a reproach to him, and...

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• Proverbs 15:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        11 Hell and destruction are before the L ORD : how much more then the hearts of the children of men?       This confirms what was said ( Proverbs 15:3 Proverbs 15:3 ) concerning God's...

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• Proverbs 15:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Destruction; put for the place of destruction, by a usual metonymy; the place and state of the damned, of which men know nothing but by Divine revelation. The hearts; whose thoughts and affection...

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• Proverbs 15:11 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Wise Words, Reproof And Firm Discipline Uphold The Righteous, Giving Them Suitable Reward, Whilst The Unrighteous Reject Reproof, And Suffer The Consequences ( Proverbs 15:4-13 ). In this subsecti...

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• Proverbs 15:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 15:11 . Hell and destruction , “Sheôl,” and “Abaddôn,” two different names for the world of the departed. “Sheôl” is the unseen world in general, “Abaddôn” the place of...

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• Proverbs 15:11 - Scofield Reference Notes

  hell Hebrew, "Sheol," ( See Scofield) - ( Habakkuk 2:5 ); ( Job 26:6 ); ( Psalms 139:8 ).

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• Proverbs 15:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Proverbs 15:1 . A soft answer turneth away wrath. It bows to the tempest, it names a mitigating circumstance, it gives a favourable turn to misconstruction, it proposes a better way. My father, sa...

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• Proverbs 15:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Proverbs 15:1 A soft answer turneth away wrath . Two things are here to be observed: an answer should be given—the injured person should not wrap himself in sullen silence; and...

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• Proverbs 15:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  v. 11. Hell and destruction are before the Lord, the realm of the dead, the place of eternal perdition, is uncovered before Him; He knows them, though they be hidden from the eyes of men; how much...

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• Proverbs 15:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Chronicles 6:30 ; Hebrews 4:13 ; Jeremiah 17:10 ; Job 26:6 ; John 2:24 ; John 2:25 ; John 21:17 ; Proverbs 27:20 ; Psalms 139:8 ; Psalms 44:21 ; Psalms 7:9 ; Revelation 1:18 ; Revelati...

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• Proverbs 15:11 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Destruction — The place of destruction, of which men know nothing but by Divine revelation.

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