Proverbs 15:29

He heareth the prayer of the righteous. — For they desire above all things to do His will, and so their petitions to this effect are heard by Him.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare John 9:31 .
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 15. This chapter makes no new departure. Proverbs concerning the moral government of the world again occupy the chief place. One ( Proverb...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

the righteous . righteous ones.
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous. The Lord is far from the wicked - He is neither near to hear, nor near...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous. The Lord is far from the wicked (i:e., far from 'hearing their p...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1. Grievous ] i.e. annoying. 'If one pour in hot water let the other pour in cold.'
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER 16 A PASSIONATE DISPOSITION "A soft answer turneth away wrath: but a grievous word stirreth up anger." In the LXX there is another clause...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Words in Season Proverbs 15:18-33 Learn to be slow to anger. This paragraph describes the even temper which is blessed to live with and blessed...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Verse Proverbs 15:11 . This is a simple method of drawing attention to God's perfect knowledge of all the deepest and hidden things. If that which i...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife. The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way o...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The Lord [is] far from the wicked ,.... Not as to his essence or powerful presence, which is everywhere, for he is God omnipresent; but with respect...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

The LORD [is] far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous. Ver. 29. The Lord is far from the wicked. ] He was so from the prou...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Lord is far from the wicked They set him at defiance, and therefore he sets himself at a distance from them; they say to the Almighty, Depart...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

29 The L ORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous. Note, 1. God sets himself at a distance from tho...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Is far from the wicked, to wit, when they pray to him, as the next clause explains, and therefore doth not hear nor regard them, as he is said to b...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 15:29 GOD NEAR AND FAR OFF I. God is not far from the wicked in a local sense . The most wicked man upon the face...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 15:1 . A soft answer turneth away wrath. It bows to the tempest, it names a mitigating circumstance, it gives a favourable turn to miscon...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Proverbs 15:1 A soft answer turneth away wrath . Two things are here to be observed: an answer should be given—the injured pers...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

v. 29. The Lord is far from the wicked, so that they cannot reach Him with their hypocritical form of worship; but He heareth the prayer of the ri...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Peter 3:12 ; Ephesians 2:12 ; Ephesians 2:13 ; Isaiah 55:8 ; Isaiah 55:9 ; James 5:16-18 ; John 9:31 ; Matthew 25:46 ; Proverbs 15:8 ; Ps...

²⁹ The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 15:29

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 15:29