“ For richesg are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation? ”
The verses sing the praises of the earlier patriarchal life, with its flocks and herds, and tillage of the ground, as compared with the commerce of a later time, with money as its chief or only wea...
A collection of aphorisms on various subjects. Proverbs 27:3 . cf. Sir_22:14 f. The comparison suggests that vexation is out of place. It is the fool that is a bore, not his anger. Proverb...
riches. Consisted mainly in flocks and herds.
For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation? For riches are not for ever - All other kinds of property are very transitory. Money and the highest civil honors are b...
For riches are not for ever, &c.— See Hiller. pars 2: p. 9. The author of the Observations remarks, that milk is a great part of the diet of the eastern people. Their goats furnish them wit...
For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation? For riches are not forever - therefore they are not to be depended on to the neglect of thy flocks. Israel's chief...
Sundry Observations. Agriculture 4. Envy] a husband's jealousy is meant ( Song of Solomon 8:6 ). 5, 6. Men 'hide' (RV) love when they refrain from telling a friend his faults. An enemy will be...
For riches are not for ever. — Comp. Proverbs 23:5 . So it is well to have a sure source of income, like husbandry or cattle-feeding, upon which to fall back.
CHAPTER 28 LIVING DAY BY DAY "Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day will bring forth."- Proverbs 27:1 "The grave and destruction are never satisfied; and the eyes of...
Verse Proverbs 27:5 . This proverb takes for granted the need for rebuke, and by 'love that is hidden" is meant a love which fails to rebuke. Verse Proverbs 27:14 . There is nothing more calculate...
My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me. A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished. Take his garment th...
For riches [are] not for ever ,.... A man cannot be assured of the continuance of them; they are uncertain things, here today and gone tomorrow: wherefore, though a man has a considerable share of t...
For riches [are] not for ever: and doth the crown [endure] to every generation? Ver. 24. For riches endure not for ever. ] Whether they be riches of inheritance or of purchase, they will waste wit...
Be diligent to know the state of thy flock That thou mayest preserve and improve what thou hast, and take care that thy expenses do not exceed thy income. Flocks and herds are here put for all rich...
HERE THE SUBJECT matter is completely changed. No longer is the outside opposition of the enemy found, but any dangers now considered are those arising from the state of our own hearts. This third...
23 Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. 24 For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation? 25 The hay appeareth,...
Riches; or, treasure . The sense is, What thou dust now possess, or hast laid up, will not last always, but will soon be spent, if thou dost not take care to preserve and improve it. The crown;...
MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Proverbs 27:23-27 MODEL FARMING These words were especially applicable to the Israelitish people in their early history, when every family lived upon its own...
Proverbs 27:1 . Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. Let us never boast of future days and years, or what we mean to do when we come to any age, or wha...
Proverbs 27:2 . Let another man praise thee. A man is sometimes compelled to speak of himself. But modesty often prefers speaking in the third person; as St. John, who says, “that disciple whom Je...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 27:1-20 These verses are grouped in pairs, each two being connected in subject. Proverbs 27:1 Boast not thyself of tomorrow. He boasts himself ( Proverbs 25:14 )...
Wisdom and Humility Go Hand in Hand
1 Timothy 6:17 ; 1 Timothy 6:18 ; 2 Samuel 7:16 ; Isaiah 9:7 ; James 1:10 ; Proverbs 23:5 ; Psalms 89:36 ; Zephaniah 1:18
Making the Most of Life Proverbs 27:1-27 INTRODUCTORY WORDS God has given to each of us a life freighted with many privileges and with many opportunities. There is a little verse in the New Te...
For — What thou dost now possess, will not last always. If a man had the wealth of a kingdom, without care and diligence it would be brought to nothing.