Proverbs 15:25 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow. ”

• Proverbs 15:25 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The widow - Here, as elsewhere Deuteronomy 10:18 ; Psalms 68:5 , the widow, as the most extreme type of desolation, stands as the representative of a class safer in their poverty under the prot...

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• Proverbs 15:25 - 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 15:25 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  border . landmark. Note the contrast with "house".

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• Proverbs 15:25 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow. The house of the proud - Families of this description are seldom continued long. The Lord hates pride; and...

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• Proverbs 15:25 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow. The Lord will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow - whom...

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• Proverbs 15:25 - 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 15:25 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The proud — who trust in their own strength; while He will “establish the border,” or landmark, of the helpless widow, who has none to cry to but Him. The frequently threatened punishment against o...

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• Proverbs 15:25 - 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 15:25 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Words in Season Proverbs 15:18-33 Learn to be slow to anger. This paragraph describes the even temper which is blessed to live with and blessed to die with. Temper is said to be nine-tenths of...

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• Proverbs 15:25 - 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 15:25 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife. The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain. A wise son maketh a...

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• Proverbs 15:25 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  The Lord will destroy the house of the proud ,.... To whom he has the utmost aversion; he sets himself against them and resists them, and will not only destroy them, but their stately houses too, wh...

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• Proverbs 15:25 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow. Ver. 25. The Lord will destroy the house of the proud. ] Where he thinks himself most safe, God will pu...

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• Proverbs 15:25 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The Lord will destroy the house of the proud Of the most mighty oppressors, who suppose themselves to be immoveably fixed; or the family of haughty men, who, forgetting him, trample upon their infe...

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• Proverbs 15:25 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        25 The L ORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.       Note, 1. Those that are elevated God delights to abase, and commonly does it in the...

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• Proverbs 15:25 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Of the proud; of the most mighty oppressors, who conceit themselves to be unmovably fixed. The border; either, 1. The estate, the border being oft used for the land within the borders, as P...

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• Proverbs 15:25 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 15:25 . Establish the border , or “Keep fixed the landmark.” MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 15:25 DESTRUCTION AND ESTABLISHMENT I. The character of those doomed to...

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• Proverbs 15:25 - 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 15:25 - 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 15:25 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  v. 25. The Lord will destroy the house of the proud, visiting him, his family, and all his possessions with punishment; but He will establish the border of the widow, not permit the boundary line...

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• Proverbs 15:25 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Peter 5:5 ; Daniel 5:20 ; Deuteronomy 10:17 ; Deuteronomy 10:18 ; Isaiah 2:12 ; James 1:27 ; Job 40:11-13 ; Proverbs 12:7 ; Proverbs 14:11 ; Psalms 138:6 ; Psalms 146:9 ; Psalms 52:1 ;...

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• Proverbs 15:25 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  The proud — Of the mighty oppressors. The border — The estate, the border being often used, for the land within the borders.

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