“ Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools. ”
Proverbs 19. A shrewd turn of sarcasm in Proverbs 19:3 suggests the attitude of practical wisdom towards that questioning of the moral government of the world which we find in Job. Proverbs 1...
Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools. Stripes for the back of fools - Profane and wicked men expose themselves to the punishments denounced against such by just laws...
Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools. Judgments are prepared for scorners - even as they 'scorned judgment' ( Proverbs 19:28 .) Righteous retribution in kind...
1. Fool ] read, 'rich' ( Proverbs 28:6 ).
Judgments are prepared for scorners. — (Comp. Proverbs 19:25 .) Fools. — See above on Proverbs 1:22 .
CHAPTER 20 HUMAN FREEDOM "The foolishness of man subverteth his way; And his heart fretteth against the Lord."- Proverbs 19:3 THERE is such a valuable expansion and commentary on this proverb...
Verse Proverbs 19:7 . This is the only case in this first collection of proverbs in which we find three clauses. It is certainly most likely that the third clause is incomplete. Something has been l...
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD. Slothfulness...
Judgments are prepared for scorners ,.... Either by the civil magistrate, or by the Lord, and indeed by both; and if they miss the one, they will certainly meet the other; though they mock at presen...
Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools. Ver. 29. Judgments are prepared for scorners. ] For these scorners (that promise themselves impunity) are judgments, not one...
Judgments are prepared for scorners Either by men, or, at least, by God; although they be deferred for a time, yet they are treasured up for them, and shall infallibly be inflicted upon them: and...
29 Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools. Note, 1. Scorners are fools. Those that ridicule things sacred and serious do but make themselves ridiculou...
Prepared, either by men, or at least by God; although they: be deferred for a thee, yet they are treasured up for them, and shall infallibly be inflicted upon them.
Proverbs 19:1 . Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, in simplicity and honesty of heart, than a fool whose tongue is perverse, and whose body is swoln with corpulency. The contrast of...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 19:1 Better is the poor that walkth in his integrity. The word for "poor" is, here and in Proverbs 19:7 , Proverbs 19:22 , rash, which signifies "poor" in oppositi...
v. 29. Judgments are prepared for scorners, their verdict of condemnation is ready, and stripes for the back of fools, for their punishment also is inevitable, since the just God will not be mock...
2 Peter 3:3-7 ; Acts 13:40 ; Acts 13:41 ; Hebrews 12:6 ; Isaiah 28:22 ; Isaiah 29:20 ; Proverbs 10:13 ; Proverbs 17:10 ; Proverbs 26:3 ; Proverbs 3:34 ; Proverbs 7:22 ; Proverbs 9:12
Prepared — Although they be deferred for a time, yet they are treasured up for them.