Proverbs 19 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Bible Comments
  • Proverbs 19:3 open_in_new

    Perverteth — Blasts his designs and enterprises. Fretteth — He ascribes his unhappiness not to his own sin, but to God and his providence.

  • Proverbs 19:7 open_in_new

    Brethren — His nearest relations. Hate — Despise and shun him. Pursueth — Earnestly imploring their pity.

  • Proverbs 19:10 open_in_new

    Delight — To live in pleasure and outward glory, doth not become him, nor suit with him; because prosperity corrupts even wise men, and makes fools mad; and because it gives him more opportunity to discover his folly, and to do mischief both to himself and others.

  • Proverbs 19:18 open_in_new

    While — Before custom in sin, and thy indulgence have made him incorrigible. Let not — Forbear not to give him due and necessary correction.

  • Proverbs 19:19 open_in_new

    Great wrath — Of strong passions. Deliver — If thou forbear to punish him. Do it — Thou must deliver him again and again.

  • Proverbs 19:22 open_in_new

    The desire — The hearty desire of being kind is accepted by God, and should be owned by men as a real kindness. A poor man — Who is not able to give what he desires to do. A liar — Than a rich man who feeds the poor with fair promises, but doth not perform what he pretends.

  • Proverbs 19:25 open_in_new

    Scorner — An obstinate and impudent transgressor. Simple — Who sin thro' ignorance, being possibly drawn to it by the scorner's evil counsel or example. Reprove — A verbal reproof will be more effectual for his reformation, than the severest punishments will be to a scorner.

  • Proverbs 19:26 open_in_new

    Wasteth — His father's estate. Chaseth — Causes her to avoid his presence, and to go from the house where he is.

  • Proverbs 19:28 open_in_new

    Scorneth — Hath no reverence to the place of justice, nor to the presence of God there. Devoureth — Utters it with greediness and delight.