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This is a temper the very opposite of the first, but producing a similar effect. For the negative sinnerthe man who does nothingis a waster of his time and of his talents, and is therefore guilty of a positive crime. Even if he is an honest and able man, he may be so dependent upon the caprices of the wealthy as to have to entreat their help and patronage before he can use his powers to his own advantage. tushigyah, lit. Through desire (through self-willed and self-seeking desire of wisdom)wisdom, Heb. II. The words of the wise bring refreshment, but those of a fool or a gossip bring destruction (4-8).Those who leave work undone are almost as bad as those who wreck what already has been done (9). Because it is the only thing that separates them. And not less is economy of means. Others read as in the authorised version. But they who have already found it are so affected with the worth of it, so directed by the light of it, as that they still seek more, still get more.Jermin. Proverbs 2:7), yielding the sense the lost man sits careless to what is stable. He does not regard it. is the same one who wastes his life away. An impregnable refuge. Like the apostles of old, he cannot but speak the things which he has seen and heard (Acts 4:20). But the water from a well, or from a deep and flowing stream, is generally pure and wholesome to the taste, and refreshing to the land through which it flows. The spirit of the man is the man himself, his power to love, to hope, and to enjoy. Mark the warrant of experience in this trustThey that know thy name shall put their trust in Thee; for thou, Lord, hast not forsaken them that seek Thee (Psalms 9:10). He surely learned an awful lot about women. (1) that of those who think they are born for themselves, and that others ought to be ministers of their self-seeking desires; (2) that of those who intermeddle with what does not concern them. Those who trust in God know they are safe, but those who trust in their wealth only think they are safe. A man may, in various ways, make his lips the instrument of either want on the one hand, or plenty on the other.Wardlaw. ), "Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day . Add custom text here or remove it. That is, the fool's lips enters into contention, and by his mouth, the strokes is really, is blows. And in the same spirit and by the same rule, otherwise applied, had Felix done well to defer hearing Pauls defence until Pauls accusers were present. Aristides, they tell us, would lend but one ear to anyone who accused an absent party, and used to hold his hand on the other, intimating that he reserved one ear for the absentee accused. Cicero, the greatest orator, save one, of antiquity, has left it on record, as we are pertinently reminded on the Essays on Liberty, that he always studied his adversaries case with as great intensity as his own, if not still greater. March 12. The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as a high wall in his own conceit. III. that is: Proverbs 14:29, Proverbs 15:18, Proverbs 19:11, Psalms 103:8, Ephesians 5:1, James 1:19. and he: Proverbs 16:19, Proverbs 25:28, Romans 12:21, Revelation 3:21. I. Slothfulness and prodigality have the same origin. But it is not so easy to capture a human heartan angry brother must be subdued by different means, and by weapons which require more skilful handling. If you say he spent the night in a den of lions you read the story superficially. The first clause reads thus in the Hebrew, A righteous one, the first in his quarrel, and has a brevity which is practically too great. We are repeatedly said to be saved by the name of God (Psalms 54:1; John 17:11-12). Pro 18:1 Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh [and] intermeddleth with all wisdom. All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, But the LORD weighs the spirits. Leviticus 19; Proverbs 29; Matthew 13:24-58. Proverbs 18:4. They use their privileges on no principle of economy. Article. Of such a man it may be said that his words are as deep waters and as a living spring. And if it is so with every true lover of merely intellectual wisdom, it is pre-eminently so with the man who seeks spiritual wisdom. Their words are smoother than oil; yet are they drawn swords;envenomed fangs, of which the virus gets into our system ere we are aware, works its mischievous and morally deadly effects, and becomes incapable of extraction. His enemy now suggests that it is beyond his reach; that he has sinned too long and too much, against too much light and knowledge; how can he be saved? II. If a young artist has a sketch given to him by his master which he is to fill up in a given time, he cannot afford to spend the moments in disputing with his fellow-pupils about their respective rights to certain brushes and colours; while he is contending the hours are going, and when the master calls for the picture he will have none to show. How often may it be seen, that with means of a very limited and stinted amount, there is more of spiritual prosperity in one instance, than is discoverable in another, with means the most varied and abundant. An unbearable wound of spirit can be the portion of those only who have no sense of the favour of God. And when it has unhappily succeeded in wounding us, we instantly have recourse to means for preventing the poison from getting into the mass of the blood, and pervading the system. Proverbs 17:19) with God which has been so long discussedis what ruins all. And, like their Divine Master, they know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary (Isaiah 50:4), and thus that which flows from their lips is as refreshing and healthful to weary and struggling men and women on the highway of life as the living, cooling watercourse is to the dusty and thirsty traveller. Ignominy, rather, shameful deeds., This verse also, as will be seen from a reference to the Critical Notes, and also from the Comments, is susceptible of several interpretations. Another passage may serve to confirm this view. Granted that it is a defence against some very real ills, who can insure to himself a continuance of his present possessions? Things go on as before; and still (to use rather a colloquial, but sufficiently expressive phrase), what is taken in by the door is thrown out by the window; and still the wonder continues how it goes! Go back within the wallsSee upon the tower the nameI am the Lord; I change not (Malachi 3:6). Seeing, then, what issues of life and death are dependent upon this king, it is manifest that men should keep him in absolute control; if so much depends upon his action he ought to be under the strictest supervision. marg. It is a vapid distinction to say a good wife, and the Bible many a time hurries on without any such distinction (comp. (NEB) II. If he desires to become wise by acquaintance with the thoughts and deeds of the great and mighty men of past ages he must withdraw himself at certain seasons from the society of his fellow-men, and give himself up to study and reflection. She said, "Well, honey, you go outside and play for a little while and then come on in and Mother will tell you." The languages of several countries are not so different as of the poor and rich man in one and the same country, and a stranger of another land is not such a foreigner as in the same land a poor man standing at the door of the rich. There is no anguish to that of the conscience: A wounded spirit who can bear? The bars that guard the outlet of a fortress are strong, and when the iron crowbar is applied to them with a view of making an entrance, the weapon finds itself resisted by a substance as unyielding as its own. Every attempt at its removal still leaves some portion of it behind. Whoso findeth a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of the LORD ( Proverbs 18:21-22 ). The heart is here, as in many other instances, apparently used for the mind in general, including both the intellect and the affections. He that answers a matter before he hears it, it's a folly and a shame ( Proverbs 18:13 ). No man can be wise unless he has some self-knowledge, and no man can subject himself to much inspection while in company, hence the advice of George Herbert. Secularly, this is beyond a doubt; judicially, here is a great outrage; socially, a something very impolite; but religiously, a thing altogether a shame. Men born yesterday might certainly afford to listen. In the field of the world, the tares grow as well as the wheat (Matthew 13:26), and often they seem for a time to be more flourishing. A lot of people complain, "Oh, we don't have any friends." He trembles at the thought of eternal condemnation. ESV There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death. Things don't always work out the way we want them to, and even if you're the most adaptable person in the world, life is going to throw you a few curveballs, and you're going to strike out once or twice. [Note: Waltke, The Book . Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeks and intermeddleth with all wisdom. The wife of Potiphar seemed just in her cause when she declared that Joseph left his garment in her hand and fled. Same idea. The common course is that seeking goes before getting, but here getting is first, and seeking follows after. The name I AM, by which He revealed Himself to Israel (Exodus 3:14) set forth His eternal self-existence, but He has also revealed Himself by names which are used to express human relations, such as king, judge, husband, father. For he is commonly a fellow slothful in his work, being busy in his words, and he is indeed brother to him that is a great waster, spoiling his own estate by his slothfulness, and by the mischief which his talebearing falleth upon him; and spoiling him to whom he talketh by the ill mind which he putteth into him.Jermin. The Vulgate, Septuagint, and Arabic, read as follows: "He who wishes to break with his friend, and seeks occasions or pretenses, shall at all times be worthy of blame.". There are certain mental capabilities which are the common inheritance of men in general, but it cannot be denied that there are men who, apart from all the differences made by circumstances and education, have capacities and abilities which far exceed those of ordinary men. None but foolish men and children ever play with fire, and when they do it they generally suffer themselves first, but they are often not the only sufferers. II. Some translators read a brother offended resisteth more than a strong city. Miller reads, When a brother is revolted away, it is from a city of strength., The state of things treated in this verse reveals most conclusively that man has fallen. An industrious old man, by trade a mason, was engaged to build a certain piece of wall at so much per yard. Herod feasts in the palace, while John the Baptist is beheaded in the dungeon. 34 "Your eye is like a lamp for your body. There is. If a lot have erred, it is when mens understanding could have put things right, for God, having given power to men, He looks that men should use it. In 1969, after graduating from Talbot Theological Seminary, John came to Grace Community Church. It is upon them that are contentious, and will not obey the truth, (Romans 2:8)that truth being in all of them through the invisible things which are seen by the things that are made (Romans 1:20)that the apostle denounces tribulation and wrath, indignation and anguish. Not that men can save themselves, but that they would save themselves under Gods influences if they did not contend with Him; that it is rebellion that turns the scale (Psalms 68:6); that there is light enough in every man to draw him to saving light if he would only follow it; and that on this very account it is the great sorrow of the sinner that he has this spirit of upbraiding, which, in the spiritual world, no moral malady can carry.Miller. Although the Divine Creator gives to all men liberally, He does not give to all equally, but seeing that man is not responsible for this inequality, those who are most richly endowed should find in the fact of their superiority matter for gratitude and not for self-glorification. If there is to be a genuine friendship there must be mutual confidence and a mutual recognition of excellencies, for if the trust and admiration is on one side only the fire will soon burn out for want of fuel. But the conversation and teaching of the godly are always a means of moral health to others; by their words they witness for the truth of God, and are the means of opening mens eyes, and turning them from darkness to light, from the power of Satan unto God (Acts 26:13). But. It may be taken by superior physical force, it may be surprised and captured, or its inhabitants may be starved into a surrender. 4 and 15); that against bold impiety, proud dispositions and hardness of heart against the poor (Proverbs 18:3; Proverbs 18:12; Proverbs 18:23); that against slothfulness in the duties of ones calling, foolish confidence in earthly riches, and want of true moral courage and confidence in God (Proverbs 18:9-11; comp. Scripture: Proverbs 18:19. Saints themselves are not entirely delivered from this selfish disposition, as we see in the behaviour of David to Mephibosheth, after he had pronounced a rash sentence in his case.Lawson. It must be plumb, rejoined the builder, somewhat piqued, for I have laid every stone by the plumb-line. Suiting the action to the word he grasped the rule, laid it along his work, and triumphantly pointed to the lead vibrating and settling down precisely on the cut that marks the middle. The man who is lazy, slothful in his work, he's a brother to him that is a great waster. Let's cast lots for it. As the lot was had recourse to when causes were such as admitted not of determination otherwise, there seems to be a natural enough relation of suggestion between this verse and the preceding. He that was pleased to make the Sabbath of rest, is also pleased with those who make a Sabbath of peace. And as it sways the affections and takes a mans will captive, it wields the power of life and death not over the body of the man but over the man himself. Well, you're not you're not showing yourself friendly. He who offends our Brother Prince shuts a high tower (Psalms 18:2). Proverbs 11:2 and Proverbs 16:18. If our strength were as an army, and our lands not limited save with east and west, if our meat were manna, and our garments as the ephod of Aaron; yet the afflicted conscience would refuse to be cheered with all these comforts. Because his soul is in communication with an exhaustless source of spiritual life and wisdom. We follow the authorised version. It is unwise to be antisocial in the schismatic sense of that word (cf. (Job 33:8-12.)Bridges. 12/1/22: I just found out that most of the commentaries on the Bible Study Tools website are no longer free. Some of the most criminal and violent people have thought themselves pure in their own eyes. But these human vipers infuse their poison in the language of kindness and love. Grant that both are obscure. Through desire a man having separated himself, seeketh,. Or, "a separated man seeketh desire" g; his own desire, will, and pleasure. When such expectations are disappointed, the wound in the spirit is proportionately deeper, and more difficult of healingthe breach wider, and harder of being made up. Life is a wide thing; and might, at least, be acted through, before in the darker points we insist upon a judgment Folly, and therefore, mischief; shame, and therefore, ill desert. For those who know anything of the character of God, know that it was not a part of his original intention that men should be placed in such circumstances; and when they look abroad upon their fellow-creatures, they see that all the poverty of the poor can be traced to wrong-doing on the part of mento the sefishness of some, and to the indolence and vice of others. And if he desire to acquire what, after all, can alone make him a truly wise manan acquaintance with himself and with Godhe must have seasons of separation in which to listen to the voice of his own heart and to the voice of His maker. Bereavement, the faithlessness of friends, disappointed hopes, often deeply wound the spirit, yet men bear these wounds and often are made better and stronger by them. Then your whole body also is full of light. A sense of the favour of God and a peaceful conscience will prevent men from being overwhelmed by even very keen mental sorrow. John MacArthur is the pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, as well as an author, conference speaker, president of The Master's University and Seminary, and featured teacher with the Grace to You media ministry. The name of the Lord That is, the Lord, as he hath revealed himself in his works, and especially in his word, by his promises, and the declarations of his infinite perfections, and of his good-will to his people; is a strong tower Is sufficient for our protection in the greatest dangers. . What the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by His name. He gave it to Christs humanity. She said, "Oh yes, Mommy." Proverbs 18:1. A half-told story often makes the state of matters appear so different from the truth that it is a gross injustice to condemn or justify any person when that is all that is known. The last requires more self-denial, humility, and patience, and therefore is more practically useful.Bridges. David has been happy to be part of the Blue Letter Bible . In some cases the only way a judge may be able to settle a dispute is by the drawing of lots (16-18).People may become strong friends or strong enemies, depending on how they are treated. 1. They entail ignominy and reproach upon all they have to do with. Can't agree on something, we'll flip a coin. 1. Proverbs 4:3). It must be remembered that deep waters are associated in the Old Testament with the thought of darkness and mystery (Proverbs 20:5; Psalms 69:2; Ecclesiastes 7:24), and we get a more profound thought if we see in the proverb a comparison between all teaching from without and that of the light within. A man who gives judgment in a matter before he has heard all the facts of the case wrongs himself. And when we think not only of the wounds thus inflicted, and the lives thus cut off, but of the wounded hearts and darkened lives of those who mourn them, we must allow that any means of ending contention is better than permitting it to work its deadly work. John separated himself in the wilderness, Paul in Arabia, our blessed Lord in frequent retirement, in order to greater concentration in their momentous work. A fool's mouth is his destruction, his lips are a snare of his soul. There is, in the original word, an implication of softness, simplicity, undesignedness, which only gives the secret weapon with which the wound is inflicted the greater keenness.Wardlaw. A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes ( Proverbs 18:1-6 ). ", Evidently the intent is, "He who separates himself [from other people]" does so because he wants his own way and does not want others to restrain him. "[3] We shall paraphrase the apparent meaning here: "When any man wishes to separate himself from former friends, he will seek some pretext for doing so; but his behavior is altogether reprehensible. I. Many men seek secular knowledge for the sole purpose of acquiring fame by the acquisition. The words of a mans mouth are dark as the deep waters of a pool, or tank; but the well-spring of wisdom is as a flowing brook, bright and clear. So taken the verse presents a contrast like that of Jeremiah 2:13.Plumptre. More is justly expected from a brother than from a strangermore of affection, gratitude, kindly treatment, fidelity, and trustworthiness. Proverbs 18:6. They may be dwelling under the same roof, and so have every opportunity of enjoying each others society and gladdening each others life. 4 Wise words are like deep waters; Thus sense of danger, knowledge of the way, confidence in the strength of the towerall gives a spring of life and earnestness to run into it. Everything here calls for our deepest, closest thoughts. It must be free to stretch out its roots and shoots on every side, and to appropriate to itself those elements in the earth and in the atmosphere which will make it strong and vigorous. There are several methods by which a city may be won. The vast importance of our words may be learned from James 3; and our blessed Lord says expressly (Matthew 12:36, etc. 1. The Pharisees were such; from the Hebrew, pharash, to separate. But contention builds around each one a more impregnable barrier than the highest walls of the strongest fortress. Satisfied. Proverbs 18:24. 3 When wickedness arrives, shame's not far behind; contempt for life is contemptible. Oh, how hard it is when your spirit has been wounded. Some men spend days of solitude in patient investigation for no other purpose than to make a name for themselves. He flees to it for refuge as to a strong city; but it is so only "in his own conceit" or imagination. . He was fully conscious of the fact that a real partner of his lifeone woman to be a help-meet for him according to the Divine intentionwould have added much more to his real welfare than the thousand counterfeits to whom it was an insult to God to give the name of wives. When a man enters into the marriage relation according to the Divine intentionmaking a woman his wife in the true sense of the wordhe not only adds to his own comfort and consults his own interest, but he does that which is pleasing to Godhe takes a step upon which he can fearlessly ask for the Divine blessing. O what an amount of scorn and reproach has been brought upon the sacred office of the ministry by the intrusion, under numberless pretexts, and from numberless causes, of wicked, worldly, ungodly men into its holy functions! But it must not be forgotten that there must always be two persons implicated in the guilt and cruelty of thus killing the reputation of a fellow-creature. The gift of one talent is more common than the gift of ten, yet both the ten and the one are gifts from the same hand. 3. No physical force can break down enmity of hearteven God cannot reconcile men unto Himself by His physical omnipotence, but wins them by love. Because the flow is natural and spontaneous. We know the viper. The favour of a good king is in itself a fortune which few men would despise. Proverbs 18:1 warns us of the consequences of using words carelessly. Nay, even the commendation of a large liberality as a means of gaining for ones self favour and influence in human society (Proverbs 18:16), and likewise the praise of an excellent mistress of a family, are quite closely connected with this main subject of the chapter, which admonishes to love towards ones fellow-men; they only show the many-sided completeness with which the theme is here treated.Langes Commentary. I. 2 A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion. and yet, when the harvest is come, he may take his choice whether he will eat of the product or not. The acts of the prodigal and the slothful man differ in themselves, but they all spring from that spirit of self-pleasing which is the essence of ungodliness. Many of those who fawned upon them and flattered them while they were prospering will be most ready to scorn and upbraid them, if the day of their retribution arrives before they quit this world. Polygamy was the rock upon which Solomon shipwrecked his social happiness and much more (1 Kings 11:3), and he seems here and elsewhere to warn his descendants not to follow in his footsteps in this respect and conform to the custom of the heathen monarchs by whom they were surrounded. Words will bring a person good or ill, depending on what they mean and how they are spoken (19-21). The malignancy is great in both, but with far less danger in the former. Wisdom must be reduced to practice in sinking the shaft and in working the mine before the hidden wealth is brought to light to enrich its owner. All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes: By instinct, men and women justify themselves and see their own ways as pure. The poor man has to entreat; sort of beg. A bed of down cannot do much for a man whose body is racked with painit can do nothing for him whose soul is bowed down by sorrow, or smitten with a fear of death. The text and the marginal readings indicate the two chief constructions of this somewhat difficult verse. That all sorrow of heart does not crush a man. The simple power to influence men by speech will gratify for the momentbut if the increase of the lips is to be an abiding source of contentment there must be a consciousness that the power has been used to benefit mankind in some way or otherthat the skilful pleading has been on the side of right, that the powerful logic has been used to expose the false and to defend the true, or the brilliant oratory has had for its aim the moral enlightenment and strengthening of the listeners. There is a secular and a spiritual in every proverb. 18 Loners who care only for themselves. The aims of a man left to himself is really a translation of but two words, meaning a separated one seeks. here yields no satisfactory sense. A man, when he is alone, is more likely to see things as they really are; he is less under the influence of the seen and temporal than when he is in the market, or on the crowded highway, and consequently things unseen and eternal have a more powerful influence over him at such a season. The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe ( Proverbs 18:10 ). 10 million Ukrainians without power because of Russia. But the righteous in any distress runneth presently unto it. A communication has been established between the soul of a good man and the living Godhe holds constant communion with a source of spiritual life which can never fail, and consequently he can never be at a loss for subjects upon which to discoursehis mind is always filled with new thoughts of God, and new hopes of heaven upon which to meditate himself and which he can communicate to others. It is not enough to be active, but he must see that his actions are wisely directed, that the means are adapted to the end in view. Unless he does this, the opinion that he forms to-day will be altered to-morrow, and his mind will never be firmly made up on any subject. He reverses what the proverb pronounces natural. If we would get knowledge or grace, we must desire it, as that which we need and which will be of great advantage to us, 1 Corinthians 12:31. If he were to give his opinion upon a building as soon as the builders had dug out the foundation, or were to criticise a picture when the artist had only sketched its outline upon his canvas, he would be deemed a fool, and what he said would have no weight whatever. But the true lover of wisdom is impelled to seek from the love of truthfrom the desire which possesses his soul to intermeddle with knowledge. 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