Lamentations 4:21; Lamentations 4:22; Zechariah 1:15; Zechariah 1:16
See the margin. The meaning is “Thy joy will be suicidal, the wrath of the righteous Judge will be turned upon thee, as the greater offender, and t...
Lest the LORD see [it], and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath (f) from him. (f) To be avenged on you.
Proverbs 24:7 a. Lit. Wisdom is corals to the fool. RV involves a change m the text, which gives perhaps the best sense that can be made of an ob...
from him. Supply Ellipsis, "from him [to thee]".
Lest the LORD see it , and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him. And he turn away his wrath from him - Wrath is here taken for the...
Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him. Lest the Lord ... turn, away his wrath from him - upon thee....
5. Read, 'A wise man is better than a warrior, and a man of knowledge than a man of strength.'
Seven ] an indefinite, but considerable number. The wrath will now fall on you.
And he turn away his wrath from him. — Upon thee as having sinned more deeply than thine enemy in thus rejoicing at his misfortunes. (Comp. Prover...
CHAPTER 25 FORGIVING "Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause, and deceive not with thy lips. Say not, I will do so to him as he hath...
Warnings are uttered against envy, against the formation of evil companionships, against excess in passion, against all false exhilaration; and perpe...
Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place: For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up aga...
Lest the Lord see [it], and it displease him ,.... Who sees all things, not only external actions, but the heart, and the inward motions of it; and...
Lest the LORD see [it], and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him. Ver. 18. Lest the Lord see it, ] viz., Thy pride and cruelty, a...
Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth Namely, into mischief or trouble, as in the former verse; please not thyself in his destruction. This plainly...
17 Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth: 18 Lest the L ORD see it, and it displease h...
Understand, upon thee , which is implied in the Hebrew phrase, such defects being usual in that concise language, Psalms 84:11 Proverbs 19:1 ,...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 24:20 . Reward . The same word used in Proverbs 24:14 , and in chap. Proverbs 23:18 . Its literal meaning is “a hereaf...
Proverbs 24:1 . Be not envious against evil men. Similar thoughts occur in Psalms 37:1 ; Psalms 73 ; Proverbs 17:1 . Why should we envy the wic...
Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth. Revenge Johnson makes a distinction between vengeance and revenge. Injuries, he says, are revenged; crime...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 24:1 We return here to the more usual form, the tetrastich. Be not thou envious against evil men (see on Proverbs 23...
v. 18. lest the Lord see it and it displease Him, as all evidences of malice are hound to do, and He turn away His wrath from him, that is, from...
From him — Understand, upon thee, which is implied in the Hebrew phrase.
18 Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.