“ Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things. ”
Another continuous exhortation rather than a collection of maxims. Proverbs 23:16 The teacher rejoices when the disciple’s heart Proverbs 23:15 receives wisdom, and yet more when his lips c...
It is possible to take these three verses together as a warning against treachery lurking in the dainties of a royal table. In that case, in Proverbs 23:1 we should render consider diligently what...
reins . kidneys. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6, for affections and impulses.
Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things. Yea, my reins (the seat of the affections) shall rejoice when thy lips speak right things. True wisdom begins at the heart ( Pro...
1. RV 'him that is before thee.' Do not excite his contempt.
My reins shall rejoice. — These being represented in Hebrew poetry as the seat of the deepest affections, answering to “heart” in Proverbs 23:15 . (Comp. Psalms 7:9 ; Jeremiah 12:2 ; Revelation...
CHAPTER 24 EDUCATION: THE PARENT'S THOUGHT OF THE CHILD "Train up a child according to his way, and even when he is old he will not depart from it."- Proverbs 22:6 "Withhold not correction fro...
At the seventeenth verse of the previous chapter the section of the Book begins in which the method is slightly changed. While the teaching is still proverbial, it takes the form of longer discourses...
Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words. Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plea...
Yea, my reins shall rejoice ,.... Which is only another phrase expressive of the same thing, and confirming the greatness of joy on the above occasion; not only his heart rejoiced, which was affecti...
12 Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge. 13 Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. 14 Th...
I shall rejoice not only in show and profession, but inwardly, and with all my soul.
CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 23:17 . Let not thine heart envy , etc. The verb translated envy refers to both objects in the verse, and is better translated “ strive after .” Miller renders it “ be...
Proverbs 23:1 . When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, and hast a princely feast before thee of meats and wines, put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. How many have stai...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 23:1-20 A hexastich closely connected with the last verse of the preceding chapter, as if the warning was addressed to the man of skill whom his talents had made the gue...
v. 16. Yea, my reins, his whole inner being, shall rejoice when thy lips speak right things, in an outward manifestation of the wisdom of the heart.
Colossians 4:4 ; Ephesians 4:29 ; Ephesians 5:4 ; James 3:2 ; Proverbs 8:6
My reins — I shall rejoice with all my soul.