Proverbs 16:1 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The preparationsa of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD. ”

Proverbs 16:1 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The proverbs in Proverbs 16:1-7 have, more than any other group, an especially religious character impressed upon them. The name of Yahweh as Giver, Guide, Ruler, or Judge, meets us in each of th...
Proverbs 16:1 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

The (a) preparations of the heart belong to man, and the answer of the tongue, [are] from the LORD. (a) He derides the presumption of man, who dares to attribute anything to himself, as to prepare h...
Proverbs 16:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 16. The special feature is a group of aphorisms ( Proverbs 16:10-15 ) relating to kings. The sentiments seem rather to reflect the picture of the ideal king than to indicate any particular...
Proverbs 16:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

preparations . arrangements or plans. The Ellipsis (App-6) of the verb in the first clause must be supplied (as it is in the second clause): "To man [pertain] the plans of his heart; but from Jehova...
Proverbs 16:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD. The preparations of the heart in man - The Hebrew is לאדם מערכי לב leadam maarchey leb, which is, literally, "T...
Proverbs 16:1 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The preparations of the heart, &c.— Houbigant renders it, It is in man to prepare discourse within himself; it is in the Lord to moderate or rule the tongue. Bishop Patrick says, the Hebrew w...
Proverbs 16:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD. The preparations [literally, the orderly disposings, as those of an army in array; or as the loaves of th...
Proverbs 16:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Read, 'the preparations of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.' Man prepares his plans, but the decisive, final word is suggested by God. 'There's a divinity that...
Proverbs 16:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

XVI. (1) The preparations of the heart in man... — Rather, To man belong the counsels of the heart. He may turn over in his mind what is the right thing to be said on any occasion, “but from t...
Proverbs 16:1 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER 17 A JUST BALANCE "A just balance and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are His work."- Proverbs 16:11 "A false balance is an abomination to the Lord: but a just weight...
Proverbs 16:1 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Verse Proverbs 16:1 . A somewhat obscure proverb which recognizes that man has to exercise his own reason in making his plans, but that he is dependent on the Lord for the answer of the tongue. Dr....
Proverbs 16:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD. This chapter opens with a doctrine that we should do well to keep always uppermost in our remembrance, at whatev...
Proverbs 16:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The preparations of the heart in man ,.... The sense of these words, according to our version, depends upon the next clause, and the meaning of the whole is, that a man can neither think nor speak w...
Proverbs 16:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, [is] from the LORD. Ver. 1. The preparations of the heart in man. ] He saith not ‘of man' as if it were in man's power to dispos...
Proverbs 16:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The preparations of the heart in man , &c. As we read this verse, it teacheth us a great truth, that we are not sufficient of ourselves to think , or speak, any thing of ourselves , that is wi...
Proverbs 16:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

1 The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the L ORD . As we read this, it teaches us a great truth, that we are not sufficient of ourselves to...
Proverbs 16:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

PROVERBS CHAPTER 16 Men can neither think nor speak wisely and well of themselves, or without Divine assistance. Or, as many others, both ancient and modern interpreters, render the verse, The pre...
Proverbs 16:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 16:1 . Nearly all commentators agree in reading this verse, “ To man belong the preparations of the heart, but the answer of the tongue is from, the Lord .” Preparation...
Proverbs 16:1 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 16:1 . The preparations of the heart in man. As the field must be plowed, and the soil prepared for the seeds, so the heart of man must be prepared for grace. Afflictions in Egypt dispose...
Proverbs 16:1 - The Biblical Illustrator

The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the Lord. Heart-culture We must allow no habits of mind to grow upon us which shall unfit us for making the best oppo...
Proverbs 16:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Proverbs 16:1-20 These are specially religions maxims, and they all contain the name Jehovah. Proverbs 16:1 The Authorized Version makes one sentence of this verse without...
Proverbs 16:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

v. 1. The preparations of the heart in man and the answer of the tongue is from the Lord, literally, "To man," that is, pertaining to man, "the plannings of the heart, but from Jehovah the answer o...
Proverbs 16:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 18:31 ; 2 Corinthians 8:16 ; Exodus 4:11 ; Exodus 4:12 ; Exodus 4:15 ; Ezekiel 36:26 ; Ezekiel 36:27 ; Ezra 7:27 ; James 1:16-18 ; Jeremiah 1:7-9 ; Jeremiah 10:23 ; Jeremiah...
Proverbs 16:1 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

From the Lord — Men can neither think nor speak wisely and well without Divine assistance.

Proverbs 16:1 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Proverbs 16:1 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Proverbs 16:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 16:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Proverbs 16:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Proverbs 16:1 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Proverbs 16:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 16:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 16:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Proverbs 16:1 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Proverbs 16:1 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 16:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Proverbs 16:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Proverbs 16:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Proverbs 16:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 16:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Proverbs 16:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Proverbs 16:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Proverbs 16:1 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 16:1 - The Biblical Illustrator

Proverbs 16:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Proverbs 16:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Proverbs 16:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 16:1 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes