“ The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men. ”
Proverbs 24:7 a. Lit. Wisdom is corals to the fool. RV involves a change m the text, which gives perhaps the best sense that can be made of an obviously corrupt stanza. Proverbs 24:9 . though...
thought, &c. Compare Proverbs 4:23 . Job 1:5 . Jeremiah 4:14 . Matthew 9:3 ; Matthew 9:4 ; Matthew 15:19 ; Matthew 15:20 . foolishness . the foolish. Hebrew. 'evil ( Proverbs 24:7 )....
The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men. The thought of foolishness is sin - זמת אולת חטאת zimmath ivveleth chattath. "The device of folly is transgression;" o...
The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men. The thought (Hebrew, zimat ( H2154 ); literally, evil or mischievous counsel) of foolishness (i:e., of the m...
5. Read, 'A wise man is better than a warrior, and a man of knowledge than a man of strength.'
The thought of foolishness is sin. — Rather, Sin is the contrivance ( plotting ) of self-will. Sin is the “transgression of the law” of God ( 1 John 3:4 ), when we desert the plain rule of duty...
CHAPTER 25 FORGIVING "Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause, and deceive not with thy lips. Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me; I will render to the man according to...
Warnings are uttered against envy, against the formation of evil companionships, against excess in passion, against all false exhilaration; and perperpetual attention to wisdom and earnest endeavor t...
Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief. Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding i...
The thoughts of foolishness [is] sin ,.... The thought of sin is sin e, before it comes into action; the motions of sin in the mind, the workings of corrupt nature in the heart, the sinful desires o...
The thought of foolishness [is] sin: and the scorner [is] an abomination to men. Ver. 9. The thought of foolishness is sin. ] The schools do well observe, that outward sins are maioris infamiae,...
He that deviseth, &c., shall be called mischievous Hebrew, בעל מזמות, a master of crafts or mischiefs. Though he cover his wicked devices with fair pretences, and wishes to be better esteemed...
7 Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate. 8 He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person. 9 The thought of foolishness is sin: and the...
The thought of foolishness is sin; the very inward thought or contrivance of evil, of which he spake Proverbs 24:8 , even before it break forth into action, it is a sin in God's sight, and it is...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 24:7 . Wisdom is too high, etc. Delitzsch here reads, Wisdom seems to the fool to be an ornamental commodity , and thinks “the comparison lies in the rarity, costliness...
Proverbs 24:1 . Be not envious against evil men. Similar thoughts occur in Psalms 37:1 ; Psalms 73 ; Proverbs 17:1 . Why should we envy the wicked? We are all going to lie in the common dust; t...
The thought of foolishness is sin. The nature of evil thoughts I. What is meant by the “thought of foolishness”? Folly and sin signify the same thing in Scripture. We are not to understand thou...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 24:1 We return here to the more usual form, the tetrastich. Be not thou envious against evil men (see on Proverbs 23:17 , where a similar warning is given, and comp...
v. 9. The thought of foolishness, literally, "the meditation of folly," is sin, that is, even when folly tries to perform something with prudent reflection, the result is the same, a transgressio...
2 Corinthians 10:5 ; Acts 8:22 ; Genesis 6:5 ; Genesis 8:21 ; Isaiah 55:7 ; Jeremiah 4:14 ; Matthew 15:19 ; Matthew 5:28 ; Matthew 9:4 ; Proverbs 22:10 ; Proverbs 29:8 ; Proverbs 23:7 ;...
The thought — The very inward thought or contrivance of evil, is a sin in God's sight.