Isaiah 1:3; Jeremiah 8:7; Job 35:11; Proverbs 7:23
Strictly speaking, this is the first proverb (i. e., similitude) in the book; a proverb which has received a variety of interpretations. The true m...
Proverbs 1-9. First Section. The Praise of Wisdom. Proverbs 1:1 . Title, either of the whole book, or of this particular collection. The word f...
in vain, &c. . it avails not. Figure of speech Paroemia. App-6. The sight of the net does not deter the birds. They (emphatic) still go on to...
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird - This is a proverb of which the...
Surely in vain, &c.— The Syriac, which omits Proverbs 1:16 ., connects this with the 15th verse in this manner; And they fraudulently stretch...
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. (Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird) - Hebrew, 'any master...
The chapter falls into three principal divisions. 1-6 . Title and Introduction explaining the object of the whole book, which is to instruct the in...
Warning is useless: they do not see that they are rushing to destruction.
Surely in vain ... — The second reason: their folly in so doing, for God will bring punishment upon them; in the “same net which they hid privily wi...
CHAPTER 2 THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge."- Proverbs 1:7 "The fear of the Lord is the beginning o...
“The Beginning of Knowledge” Proverbs 1:1-19 Notice the perfect balance of each clause, and the duplication of the one thought in the two claus...
The Book of Proverbs is one of the wisdom books of the Hebrew people. Emotionally and fundamentally, wisdom is the fear of God; intellectually, a kno...
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains a...
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. Or "without cause" y, as the word is rendered in Proverbs 1:11 ; and so the words are a...
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. Ver. 17. Surely in vain the net. ] Which is to say, Silly birds pick up the meat, but s...
Surely in vain the net is spread , &c. Even the silly birds will not suffer themselves to be taken if the net be spread in their sight; therefor...
Parental Admonitions. 10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou...
The design of these words is to set forth the folly of these men by the similitude of a bird, which yet is very variously applied and understood by d...
Prologue To The Book ( Proverbs 1:8 to Proverbs 9:18 ). It was common throughout the 3rd to the 1st millenniums BC for collections of wisdom say...
Discourse 1. Addressed To ‘My Son'. Those Who Seek To Walk In The Fear Of YHWH Will Listen To The Instruction Of Godly Authority, And Will Avoid The...
The Compelling Need To Avoid The Enticements Of Sinners Motivated By Greed ( Proverbs 1:10-19 ). Solomon now vividly portrays the dangers of greed...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 1:10 . Entice thee , “lay thee open.” Miller here reads “if sinners would make a door of thy simplicity, afford thou no...
Proverbs 1:1 . Proverbs, apothegms, parables, sentences, similitudes. The proverbs of a nation are the compressions of wisdom into short maxims, w...
My son, if sinners entice thee. Reasons for resisting the enticements of sinners By sinners is meant all persons who are not true Christians. T...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 1:1-20 Part I. THE TITLE AND SUPERSCRIPTION . The superscription of the Proverbs, which extends from verse 1...
A Fundamental Trait of Wisdom is the Avoidance Of Wickedness
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird, literally, "in the eyes of everything possessing wings," that is, if even a bird will flee...
The Proverbs of Solomon Proverbs 1:1-19 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Solomon's great choice. It was in Gibeon that the Lord appeared unto Solomon in...
In vain — The fowler who spreads, his net in the sight of the bird looseth his labour. But these, are more foolish than the silly birds, and though...
17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.