Proverbs 12:25

A compassionate or encouraging word from a friend or minister.

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 12:25

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Heaviness in the heart of man weigheth it down: but a (k) good word maketh it glad. (k) That is, words of comfort, or a cheerful mind which is decla...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 12. Here we have a number of proverbs handling the favourite subject of retribution ( Proverbs 12:2 f., Proverbs 12:7 ; Proverbs 12:14...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Heaviness . Anxiety (feminine) stoop . bowed down. Illustrations: Ezra ( Ezra 9:3 Ezra 10:6 ); Nehemiah ( Nehemiah 1:4 ); David ( Psalms 40:12 )...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad. Heaviness in the heart of a man maketh it stoop - Sorrow of heart, hop...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad. Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop (the it is femin...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

4. A crown, etc.] Possibly there may be a reference to the crown worn on their wedding-day by bride and bridegroom ( Song of Solomon 3:11 ; Song o...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop. — But, as this is not favourable to the spiritual life, we have warnings against excessive anxiety (...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER 13 THE TONGUE "A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his MOUTH: and the doings of a man's hands shall be rendered unto him."...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Verse Proverbs 12:9 . That is to say, it matters little that one is not counted as of any importance by his neighbors if, nevertheless, he is able t...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The lip of truth shall be established forever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment. Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the c...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop ,.... Either an anxious care and solicitude about living in the world, as the word m signifies; when i...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad. Ver. 25. Heaviness in the heart of a man maketh it stoop. ] Grief i...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop Anxious cares and grief depress the spirit of a man, and disable him from exerting himself with any v...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

25 Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad. Here is, 1. The cause and consequence of melanchol...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 12:25 HEAVINESS OF HEART AND ITS CURE I. The causes of “heaviness of heart” are many and various . It may arise,...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 12:4 . A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband, as illustrated at large in chap. 31. Proverbs 12:9 . He that is despised, and hath...
The Biblical Illustrator

Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad. The saddening and the succouring I. The saddening in life. There...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Proverbs 12:1 Instruction ; correction, discipline, which shows a man his faults, gives him a lowly opinion of himself, and ope...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

v. 25. Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop, it is readily bowed down by trouble and grief; but a good word maketh it glad, so that he s...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 2:4-7 ; Isaiah 50:4 ; Mark 14:33 ; Mark 14:34 ; Nehemiah 2:1 ; Nehemiah 2:2 ; Proverbs 14:10 ; Proverbs 15:13 ; Proverbs 15:15...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

A good word — A compassionate or encouraging word.

²⁵ Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 12:25

Arno Geneva Study 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

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Proverbs 12:25