Proverbs 17:7

Excellent speech — Discourse of high and excellent things.

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 17:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The margin renderings are more literal and give greater emphasis. What is pointed out is not the unfitness of lying lips for the princely-hearted,...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 17. Fresh points are the rise of the able and clever slave to a place in the family ( Proverbs 17:2 ), the practice of bribes ( Proverbs 1...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

speech. Hebrew "lip", put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), App-6, for what is spoken by it. fool. Hebrew. nabal. See note on Prover...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince. Excellent speech becometh not a fool - This proverb is suitable to those who...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince. Excellent speech (a lip of excellency) becometh not a fool; much less...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1. Lit. 'the sacrifices of strife.' There would be no pleasure in the festal meal which followed a sacrifice ( Proverbs 7:14 ) if it was accompanie...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The proverb writers show no hope of redeeming the lost. Their verdict is, 'He that is filthy let him be filthy still.'
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Excellent speech becometh not a fool. — Rather, perhaps, Superfluous or pretentious words become not a vile person ( nâbhâl ) , such as is descr...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER 18 FRIENDSHIP "A friend loveth at all times, and as a brother is born for adversity."- Proverbs 17:17 This rendering, based upon the ma...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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 hat...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Verse Proverbs 17:3 . Two important thoughts are suggested by this proverb. First, that the heart will yield to no force other than that of God. Dro...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts. A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ea...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Excellent speech becometh not a fool ,.... A wicked man. Eloquence, or a sublime grand way of speaking, a copiousness and fluency of expression, bec...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince. Ver. 7. Excellent speech becometh not a fool. ] A Nabal, a sapless, wort...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Excellent speech Either, 1st, Discourse concerning difficult, high, and excellent things, far above his capacity: or, 2d, Lofty, eloquent speech, w...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

7 Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince. Two things are here represented as very absurd: 1. That me...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Excellent speech; either, 1. Discourse of high and excellent things far above his capacity. Or, 2. Lofty or eloquent speech, which fools oft af...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 17:7 . Excellent speech, literally “a lip of excess or prominence, an assuming, imperious style of speech” ( Zöckler )....
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 17:1 . Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith. See Proverbs 15:17 . Proverbs 17:3 . The fining pot is for silver, and the fu...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Proverbs 17:1 (Comp, Proverbs 15:16 , Proverbs 15:17 ; Proverbs 16:8 .) Better (sweeter) is a dry morsel, and quietness th...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

v. 7. Excellent speech, fine and high talk, in an assuming, dictatorial way, becometh not a fool; much less do lying lips a prince, for true nobi...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Samuel 23:3 ; Job 34:12 ; Matthew 7:5 ; Proverbs 12:19 ; Proverbs 16:10-13 ; Proverbs 26:7 ; Proverbs 29:12 ; Psalms 101:3-5 ; Psalms 50:1...

⁷ Excellentc speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 17:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 17:7