Proverbs 10:4; Proverbs 13:4
See the Proverbs 6:11 note.
Second Division, Proverbs 24:23-34 . This section constitutes the second division of the Sayings of the Wise, as Proverbs 24:23 a indicates. I...
poverty . need. Hebrew. rush. See note on Proverbs 6:11 . an armed man . a man with. shield.
DISCOURSE: 808 THE SLUGGARD’S VINEYARD Proverbs 24:30-34 . I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understan...
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man. Commentary on the Bible, by Adam Clarke [1831].
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: Compare the same, Proverbs 6:10-11 . So shall thy poverty co...
5. Read, 'A wise man is better than a warrior, and a man of knowledge than a man of strength.'
As one that travelleth. — See above on Proverbs 6:11 .
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...
Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house. Be not a witness against thy neighbour without...
REFLECTIONS. MY soul! while thou art pondering over the very many sweet and precious sayings in this chapter, hast thou not found thine heart warmed...
So shall thy poverty come [as] one that travelleth ,.... Swiftly and suddenly, both in a temporal and spiritual sense; Proverbs 6:11 ; and thy w...
So shall thy poverty come [as] one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man. Ver. 34. So shall thy poverty come. ] Swiftly and irresistibly....
I went by the field of the slothful For the counsel intended to be conveyed by this paragraph, see note on Proverbs 6:6-11 . I looked upon it and...
30 I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; 31 And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns...
No text from Poole on this verse.
MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Proverbs 24:30-34 THE SLUGGARD’S VINEYARD I. We have here a precious possession in the hands of an unworthy...
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...
I went by the field of the slothful. The moral sluggard Take these words as a pointed reproof of the negligent and immoral head of a family. Th...
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. 34. so shall thy poverty come as one that traveleth, and thy want, the need of money and of all necessaries of life, as an armed man, literall...
34 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy wantf as an armed man.