Genesis 43:32-34; Jude 1:12
What is before thee - Beware lest dainties tempt thee to excess. Or, “consider diligently who is before thee,” the character and temper of the ru...
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, (a) consider diligently what [is] before thee: (a) Eat with sobriety.
It is possible to take these three verses together as a warning against treachery lurking in the dainties of a royal table. In that case, in Proverb...
When . Forasmuch as. Taking the act for granted. thou. The second person is continued down to Proverbs 23:24 . Consider . Discern. what: or...
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: When thou sittest to eat with a ruler - When invited to the table o...
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, &c.— There are two evils to be avoided at the tables of the great: the one is, too much talking; the oth...
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: When thou sittest to eat with a ruler (taking up Proverbs 22...
1. RV 'him that is before thee.' Do not excite his contempt.
XXIII. (1) Consider diligently what is before thee, — Rather, Who is before thee; that thy host is not an equal, but one who, if offended, mig...
CHAPTER 24 EDUCATION: THE PARENT'S THOUGHT OF THE CHILD "Train up a child according to his way, and even when he is old he will not depart from i...
At the seventeenth verse of the previous chapter the section of the Book begins in which the method is slightly changed. While the teaching is still...
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. Be...
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler ,.... Either a supreme ruler, a king, or a subordinate ruler, a nobleman, a judge, a civil magistrate, a perso...
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what [is] before thee: Ver. 1. When thou sittest to eat. ] See my Common Place of Absti...
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler When thou art invited to the table of a great man; consider diligently what is before thee What things, wha...
1 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: 2 And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man giv...
PROVERBS CHAPTER 23 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, when thou art invited to a feast with a great man, consider diligently what is before t...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 23:1 . When thou sittest, etc. Miller here translates “ Forasmuch as thou sittest ,” and applying the word ruler to G...
Proverbs 23:1 . When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, and hast a princely feast before thee of meats and wines, put a knife to thy throat, if th...
Put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. Moderation This virtue the people of God ought to practise in everything. They s...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 23:1-20 A hexastich closely connected with the last verse of the preceding chapter, as if the warning was addressed to...
v. 1. When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, with a person of influence and power, consider diligently what is before thee, keeping in mind throu...
Ruler — With a great man.
1 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: