Colossians 4:4; Ephesians 4:29; Ephesians 5:4; James 3:2; Proverbs 8:6
Another continuous exhortation rather than a collection of maxims. Proverbs 23:16 The teacher rejoices when the disciple’s heart Proverbs 23...
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...
reins . kidneys. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6, for affections and impulses.
Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things. Yea, my reins (the seat of the affections) shall rejoice when thy lips speak r...
1. RV 'him that is before thee.' Do not excite his contempt.
Reins ] lit. 'Kidneys.' Heart and kidneys were considered to be the seat of mental and spiritual life ( Job 19:27 ; Psalms 16:7 ; Jeremiah 10:20 ;...
My reins shall rejoice. — These being represented in Hebrew poetry as the seat of the deepest affections, answering to “heart” in Proverbs 23:15 ....
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...
Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words. Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fathe...
Yea, my reins shall rejoice ,.... Which is only another phrase expressive of the same thing, and confirming the greatness of joy on the above occasi...
12 Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge. 13 Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou b...
I shall rejoice not only in show and profession, but inwardly, and with all my soul.
CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 23:17 . Let not thine heart envy , etc. The verb translated envy refers to both objects in the verse, and is better tr...
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...
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. 16. Yea, my reins, his whole inner being, shall rejoice when thy lips speak right things, in an outward manifestation of the wisdom of the hea...
My reins — I shall rejoice with all my soul.
16 Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.