“ Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour. ”
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...
the poor . a weak one. Hebrew. dal. See note on Proverbs 6:11 . Same word as in Proverbs 19:17 . not the same word as in verses: Proverbs 19:1 ; Proverbs 19:7 ; Proverbs 19:22 .
Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour. The poor is separated from his neighbor - Because he has the "disease of all-shunned poverty."
Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour. Wealth maketh (Hebrew = adds) many friends: but the poor is separated from his neighbour - from him Wealth maketh (...
1. Fool ] read, 'rich' ( Proverbs 28:6 ).
The poor is separated from his neighbour. — Or, but the feeble, his friend separates himself ( from him ). It was just in order to counteract these selfish instincts of mankind that the merciful...
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...
Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool. Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinn...
Wealth maketh many friends ,.... Or "adds" f; it increases the number of them: so the poet g, "donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos"; and to this agrees what the wise man says, Proverbs 14:20...
Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour. Ver. 4. Wealth maketh many friends. ] Res amicos invenit, saith he in Plautus. Wine, saith Athenaeus, hath ελκοστικον τι...
4 Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour. Here, 1. We may see how strong men's love of money is, that they will love any man, how undeserving soever...
Is disowned and forsaken by those who are most obliged to help him.
CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 19:2 . Sinneth, literally “goeth astray.” Delitzsch reads the last clause, “ He who hasteneth with the legs after it goeth astray .” Proverbs 19:3 . Perverteth, rat...
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...
Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour. The rich and the poor Nothing upon earth is so powerful as money. It is a force before which everything bows. Wealth is...
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. 4. Wealth maketh many friends, for people seek the favor of the wealthy, in the hope of obtaining some benefit for themselves; but the poor is separated from his neighbor, it is the way of the...
Job 19:13-17 ; Job 6:15-23 ; Luke 15:13-15 ; Proverbs 10:15 ; Proverbs 14:20 ; Proverbs 19:6 ; Proverbs 19:7