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Proverbs 28:1-28 open_in_new
Observations relating chiefly to Social Life
2. Cp. the many changes of rulers during the unsatisfactory period described in 2K15.
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Proverbs 28:3 open_in_new
The addition of a single Hebrew letter gives 'wicked' instead of poor.
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Proverbs 28:4 open_in_new
See the account of Phinehas (Numbers 25). But the law here means religious and moral teaching in general.
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Proverbs 28:8 open_in_new
Unjust gain] RV 'increase.' The OT. denounced usury and interest because it was assumed that the borrower was a person in distress (Exodus 22:25; Deuteronomy 23:19; Psalms 15:5). That is quite a different matter from the lending on interest, without which modern trade could not be carried on.
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Proverbs 28:10 open_in_new
The evil way is the one which ends in calamity.
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Proverbs 28:14 open_in_new
He fears to do wrong.
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Proverbs 28:18 open_in_new
For at once, read, 'into a pit.'
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Proverbs 28:21 open_in_new
RM 'For a piece of bread a man will transgress.' 'I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.'
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Proverbs 28:22 open_in_new
Evil eye] avaricious.
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Proverbs 28:27 open_in_new
Hideth his eyes] He 'passes by on the other side' (Luke 10:31-32).