“ Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom. ”
Cease from thine own wisdom - i. e., “Cease from the use of what is in itself most excellent, if it only serves to seek after wealth, and so ministers to evil.” There is no special contrast betwe...
Labour not to be rich: cease from thy own (d) wisdom. (d) Bestow not the gifts that God has given you, to get worldly riches.
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...
Labour not, &c. Illustrations: Lot ( Genesis 13:10 ; Genesis 13:13 ); the rich fool ( Luke 12:16-20 . Compare Proverbs 10:16 ). See Jeremiah's advice ( Jeremiah 45:5 ). wisdom. Hebrew. bi...
Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom. Labour not to be rich - Let not this be thy object. Labour to provide things honest in the sight of God and all men; and if thou get wealth, do not...
Labour not to be rich— In this admonition against covetousness, the wise man neither forbids all labour, nor a provident care, which he commends in other places; but only represents how vain it is...
Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom. Labour not to be rich ( John 6:27 ; Matthew 6:19 ); cease from thine own wisdom - from that wisdom of thine whereby thou labourest to b...
1. RV 'him that is before thee.' Do not excite his contempt.
Cease from thine own wisdom. — Cleverness shewn in piling up wealth.
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...
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceit...
Labour not to be rich ,.... In an immoderate over anxious way and manner, to a weariness, as the word u signifies, and even as to gape for breath men ought to labour, that they may have wherewith to...
Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom. Ver. 4. Labour not to be rich. ] The courtier is still at his lesson. Many have gotten into princes' palaces, into places of profit, fat offic...
Labour not Hebrew, אל תיגע, Do not weary thyself , namely, with immoderate cares and labours, as many covetous men do; to be rich To raise an estate, and make thy property abundantly more than i...
4 Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom. 5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heave...
Labour not, Heb. Do not weary thyself with immoderate cares and labours , as many covetous men do. From thine own wisdom; from that carnal wisdom which is natural to man in his corrupt estate, w...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 23:5 . Wilt thou set thine eyes? etc. Rather “ Wilt thou look eagerly after it, and it is gone? ” MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 23:4-5 THE DECEITFULNESS OF RICHES...
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...
Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom. Mammon All the precepts of Scripture have their origin in the benevolence of God. Man labours to be rich because he is voluntarily ignorant o...
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. 4. Labor not to be rich, the vanity of such an ambition being obvious; cease from thine own wisdom, having enough common sense not to make the acquisition of riches the chief aim in life.
1 Timothy 6:8-10 ; Isaiah 5:21 ; John 6:27 ; Proverbs 26:12 ; Proverbs 28:20 ; Proverbs 3:5 ; Romans 11:25 ; Romans 12:16
Thine own wisdom — From worldly wisdom, which persuades men to use all possible means to get riches.