He rages against all wise judgment. Thus, as might be expected, there are the same appearances of bareness, and cheerlessness, and want, in the dwelling of the thriftless as in that of the slothful. As a muscle, the tongue isn't as capable of producing force as a leg or even the jaw, but its power is measured by the damage it can do and the life it can bring. Infirmity, i.e., sickness, disease of body. 2:4; 2 Pet 3:9), we should seek for a different interpretation. 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. II. Others have been honored for their kind and wise . This is not so with the fool; they find no delight in wisdom. If one member of the body politic, by the position which he holds and the ability which he possesses, is able to exercise a very powerful influence in the kingdom for weal or for woe, men watch him narrowly and jealously to see how he uses his power, and if they are anxious for the well-being of the State they endeavour to restrain him when he is going wrong and stimulate him when he is using his influence for the right. Verse 3. To the righteous God is good, and he nestles and shelters himself in that; runs into the nurture and shelter of Gods love, and, in the comfort of this strong tower, is lifted high. But there is a profounder sense. Exalt thyself; He'll abase you. Proverbs 17:17-18, page 518.). Time is to human creatures a very precious commodity, because the longest life lived in this world is comparatively short. Proverbs 4:3). They that have been valiant in bearing wrongs, in forbearing delights, have yet had womanish and coward spirits in sustaining the terrors of a tumultuous conscience. 18 Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment. The word of the Lord that came unto HoseaSee :-. II. The bent is in the mould where the thought is first cast in embryo, and everything that comes forth is crooked. But if otherwise it cannot be ordered then let a lot be the compromiser of them. No physical force can break down enmity of hearteven God cannot reconcile men unto Himself by His physical omnipotence, but wins them by love. We think it treats of. You faith tested - Jesus sees. Here the righteousthe man justified by the grace, and sanctified by the Spirit, of Godrunneth every day, every hour; realizing at once his fearful danger, and his perfect security.Bridges. 2. And this is the only power which can win a brother offended. If he has been in the wrong we must approach him with a free forgiveness, and if the wrong has been on our side we must approach with submission and acknowledgment of our fault. Click to donate today! I. He that is first in his own cause seems just; but his neighbor comes and searches him. A wife is the holiest of all relations; in this world the most powerful for good. A good marriage is a means of grace, of course any relation that is near and potent is covered by the passage.Miller. A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes ( Proverbs 18:1-6 ). Between (1) blaming and (2) commending the life of isolation, the decision must be that (1) is most in harmony with the temper of the Book of Proverbs; but it is not strange that Pharisaism, in its very name, separating and self-exalting, should have adopted (2). In cases when representations differed, and the evidence between them was such as to leave it impossible to say certainly on which side was the preponderance, or when the parties would not submit to arbitration, or when they were too powerful to be safely meddled with, then the lot caused contentions to cease, and parted between the mighty.Wardlaw. So ought every man to watch and guard his own tongue; seeing that life and death are in its power, he ought to bring all his words to the bar of conscience and try them there, severely condemning them if they have not been such as would minister life to the hearers, and remembering that his Master has said, By thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned (Matthew 12:37). There is no anguish to that of the conscience: A wounded spirit who can bear? 3. Meditation on Proverbs 18:13. In every cause, the first information, if it have dwelt for a little in the judges mind, takes deep root, and colours and takes possession of it, insomuch that it will hardly be washed out unless either some clear falsehood be detected or some deceit in the statement thereof.Bacon. II. Proverbs 16:33, page 499). Such a field is the tongue of man, with this difference, that a man is obliged to eat the fruit of it, although it should be worse than hemlock. A man's gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men ( Proverbs 18:15-16 ). Solomon again and again reverts to the mighty influences for good and evil which flow from the use of the tonguethat little member upon which such great issues often depend. God inflicts nothing on us but what the spirit of a man can sustain, but our greatest sufferings are owing to ourselves, and no more chargeable on the providence of God than our sins are. 1. i. There can be no doubt that each has its peculiar temptations (see chap. 12/1/22: I just found out that most of the commentaries on the Bible Study Tools website are no longer free. 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. ), "Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day . It actually brought me before Begin last week. Herod feasts in the palace, while John the Baptist is beheaded in the dungeon. III. As setting forth an indispensable condition of making and keeping friends. A brother who is offended is harder to be won than a strong city ( Proverbs 18:19 ): So the idea is, don't offend your brother. Unfriendly people care only about themselves; they lash out at common sense. 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. A man that hath friends must show himself friendly ( Proverbs 18:24 ): That's basic now. A thousand counterfeit coins, even if they pass as genuine for a time, are nothing worth in comparison with one real golden sovereign. More is justly expected from a brother than from a strangermore of affection, gratitude, kindly treatment, fidelity, and trustworthiness. "The Hebrew text of the O.T. 69.]. Read Joo 15:7 bible commentary from Treasury of Scripture Knowledge by Samuel Bagster FREE on BiblePortal.com This is that fearful consequent which treads upon the heels of presumption. Beginning with the familiar intercourse of every-day life, how true it is that the utterance of kindly words of sympathy, and advice and warning, have a tendency to make sunshine in the heart of him who utters them, while censorious, hasty, harsh words embitter and darken the spirit of their author. Among all the gifts which an Almighty Father has given to His children, there is perhaps none, after his own gracious favour, which is so necessary to their welfare or is so productive of joy as this gift of friendship. his good name. Their day of power is short-lived. At the same time the Word of God appears to be more fully recognised as the arbiter of the Divine will. Perhaps it is more easy to abide by the decision of the lot than of the Word. This is true of the Pharisees among the Jews, who had their name from separating themselves from all others, having an high opinion of their own Wisdom and sanctify; and also of the Gnostics among the Christians, who boasted of their knowledge, and separated themselves from the Christian assemblies; and were sensual, not having the Spirit, being vainly puffed up with their fleshly mind; [and] intermeddleth with all wisdom; the man who is desirous of being truly wise and knowing grasps at all wisdom, every branch of useful knowledge; would gladly learn something of every art and science worthy of regard; and he makes use of all means of improving himself therein; and covets the company and conversation of men of wisdom and knowledge, that he may attain to more; he intermingles himself with men of wisdom, as Aben Ezra interprets it, and walks and converses with them. An alternative interpretation is not difficult to find. Desire is the chariot-wheel of the soul, the spring of energy and delight. 1 Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom. And sometimes it has been a nation that has contended with another, and then not one has fallen a victim, but hundreds on both sides. Proverbs 18:2. unfriendliness and unreasonableness are inseparable." If we have to decide between the two interpretations, one blaming and the other commending the life of isolation, the answer must be that the former is more in harmony with the broad, genial temper of the Book of Proverbs.Plumptre. He strikes for what he desires. Indolenceindisposition to be troubled. For surely they are the best seekers of knowledge, and are most earnest after it, who have already gotten it. That it prevents waste of time. He separates himself from all outward hindrances, vain company, trifling amusements or studies, needless engagements, that he may seek and intermeddle with all wisdom. Because that which flows from his lips is beneficial and refreshing to others. That to subdue such enmity requires more wisdom and skill than to take a city. I. Miller. Before an enemy can attack those who have taken refuge in a fortress, they must carry the citadel itself. It is not so with heavenly friendships. Extremes thus meet. Diligence, let me remind you, is as necessary for the acquisition of spiritual as of temporal goodof the riches of Divine knowledge to the mind, as of the blessings of the Divine life to the heart. Some of the most criminal and violent people have thought themselves pure in their own eyes. Verse 5. Through desire, etc. 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. spit on the common good. Those generally are so that are opinionative and conceited, and they thus make themselves ridiculous, and are vexatious to others. More specifically speaking, He used it in the name of His own righteousness, to balance our guilt and to give weight and value to the price of His redemption. Before that he served as director and teacher at Calvary Chapel Bible College, Germany, following more than 20 years of pastoral ministry. Folly's feast 9:13-18. The heart of the prudent gets knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge. He currently serves now as the senior pastor of Calvary Chapel Santa Barbara. Who can translate all its outgoings? But. When two talk in diverse languages they are known to be men of diverse countries; but when the poor and rich talk together, so different is their speech that one would hardly think them to be both men, and of the same nature. Scripture: Proverbs 18:19. 2. 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. None but a foolish man seeks contention. His soul is set free, and he enjoys his safety. Stuart understands this in the sense of to deserve., Proverbs 18:8. What the name of the Lord is to the righteous Proverbs 18:10, that wealth is to the rich. It is said to be the candle of the Lord, because it comes from God in a more immediate manner than the body, Ecclesiastes 12:7; and because it is in God's stead, to observe and judge all our actions. Prudence, i.e., wisdom applied to practice, is an indispensable qualification for obtaining knowledge. Of the false teachers who should arise in the latter days, it is saidby reason of them the way of truth shall be evil-spoken of. From few other sources, if from any, has there proceeded a greater profusion of unmerited reproach of the name and doctrine and kingdom of the Lord; or has the chair of the scorner drawn a greater number and variety of its sarcastic sneers and bitter revilings. He seeks according to his desire, and intermeddles with every business, pretends to pass a judgment upon every man's matter. 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. So the man whose words are listened to and waited for by other menwhether he be the skilful barrister, or the powerful statesman, or the preacher of the Gospel, has a satisfaction in being able so to put forth his conceptions as to give to his fellow-men new ideasto show them things in a light in which they might never have seen them but for this power which he possesses. A reference to the Critical Notes will show that the word translated wounds may be rendered dainties, and it is because evil reports of others are so keenly relished by an unsanctified soul that the words of a tale-bearer are able to inflict such suffering and work so much ill in the world. But yet where the spring of those waters is a well-spring of wisdom, though sometimes it send forth deep waters, yet it doth not always; for that were to overwhelm the hearers. The heart is the core of any human being and is the true measure of who we are. The good things of his lips are the natural outcome of the good treasure of his heart, for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh (Matthew 12:24-25). How sad must be the reflections of those who have possessed this God-given power for good or ill when they have to look back upon its misuse. Whereas impatiency for anything that is lost taketh away the comfort of all that remaineth, yea, the comfort of thine own self.Jermin. Monogamy brings a double portiona good thing and the Divine favour. They who have not gotten it do not know the worth of it, and so have no mind to look after it, or if they have the mind, they have no knowledge how to seek it. So long as a man has this no pain of body or sorrow of soul can cast him down entirely, but without it he has little power to bear manfully the burdens of life, and a sense of the absence of it would be enough to crush him utterly although he had no other burdens to bear. When God shall raise up our sins, like dust and smoke in the eyes of our souls when He either hides His countenance from us, or beholds us with an angry look; lo, then, if any sickness be like this sickness, any calamity like the fainting soul! Men cannot live a life of isolation and know anything of the enjoyment of life. Both may bear the image and superscription of the king, but the one is an insult to the name it bears while the other has a right to be imprinted with the royal name. The selfish and morose man who will not deny himself for anothers good, or who cannot rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep, cannot expect others to deny themselves for him and to sympathise with his joy and sorrow. (This is Millers rendering only.) A man who isolates himself seeks his own desire. Proverbs 18:1 warns us of the consequences of using words carelessly. Suppose your eyes are good. Although it tends to his own personal exaltation and benefit, it is not bestowed for that purpose only or chiefly. If there is water beneath the surface of the earth it must force its way and find an outlet; it needs no hand of man to come to its aid; it penetrates the soil and forms a fertilising stream in obedience to natural law. The poor inconsiderate fools never think what they are about. Tails, we won't. Help us purchase electrical generators for churches. We must walk with God in secret, or the enemy will walk with us, and our souls will die. Whoso findeth a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of the LORD ( Proverbs 18:21-22 ). 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. 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. and there is a friend [there is a special friend] who will stick closer than a brother ( Proverbs 18:24 ). I. 18 Loners who care only for themselves. Which has in the margin the following note: "He that loveth wisdom will separate himself from all impediments, and give himself wholly to seek it.". There is a secular and a spiritual in every proverb. Can't agree on something, we'll flip a coin. 11 The rich, in their conceit, imagine that their wealth. 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. The hand can strike down the body of a single foe, or of two or three at once. The painter that has conceived a picture in his mind, and then, seeing it upon canvas, thinks of the many eyes who will gaze upon it with interest, and of those who perchance will be elevated and instructed by it, feels a satisfaction in the thought that it owes its existence to himthat without the working of his brain and hand it would not have been. And surely, if thou be courageously patient, whatsoever thou mayest lose yet thou enjoyest that which thou hast; or, if thou hast nothing, yet thou shalt enjoy thyself, thou shalt enjoy the comfort of thy own spirit. II. The first clause of this verse should be A man of many friends will prove himself base, or is so to his own destruction, i.e., he who professes to regard everybody as his friend will, in so doing, involve himself in trouble. A man of narrow means has often to fight a hard battle to supply his bodily necessities, and is a stranger to those luxuries which make life, in this respect, so comfortable to a rich man. Verse Proverbs 18:1. Adams. The tale-bearer must have a repository for his slandersthe busy tongue must have a listening ear or no mischief would be done, and tale-bearing would die out for want of an atmosphere in which it could live. NIV. One of the many temptations of wealth. But the words are the stream which the deep waters send forth. The favour of God is a fortune for a period which extends beyond that named in the marriage vow, it is a fortune which no creature can afford to despise, and a blessing which those who know Him prize before all things in earth or heaven. They are well acquainted with the way, and therefore can make speed; they have cast off the clogs of worldly impediments and so are fit for running; they think it much longer until they come to God, than impatient hearts do until they come to help.Jermin. But contention builds around each one a more impregnable barrier than the highest walls of the strongest fortress. The tongue of the tale-bearer is a two-edged sword, at once it cutteth on both sides, and his words are his wounds, at once wounding both him of whom he speaketh and him to whom he speaketh. They become unreasonable in discussion and blind to the viewpoints of others. I. It is a vapid distinction to say a good wife, and the Bible many a time hurries on without any such distinction (comp. David Guzik is the pastor of Calvary Chapel Santa Barbara, California. II. If they would but appear in their true character;would they but show their fangs, and make us feel them, we should be put upon our guard. We follow the authorised version. That, of course, is Jesus Christ. He that hath commanded to cease from labour, hath much more commanded to cease from strife. Proverbs 18. Zibas cause seemed just in Davids eyes, until Mephibosheths explanation searched him to his confusion. She said, "The little girl next door said she came from Missouri and I just wondered where I came from. The married who is truly Christian knows that, even though sometimes things are badly matched, still his marriage relation is well pleasing to God as His creation and ordinance, and what he therein does or endures, passes as done or suffered for God.Luther. The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as a high wall in his own conceit. Our understanding of Proverbs 18:20 is, that as the outward wants of a man are satisfied by his daily acts, so he himself is, and that simply as his acts, or because of the intimate sympathy between the man and what he does. Now the lost has done all the strong speaking as yet. Proverbs 11:28. 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 EVIL OF ISOLATION. Men can gain much, even of the highest wisdom, from intercourse with their fellow-men, but all human guides are fallible and all human teaching is imperfectthere must be seasons when a man separates himself from them all and stands face to face with the fountain of all truth, if he would intermeddle with pure wisdom. Till now he had no idea of his need of salvation. 3:33) or will their damnation (Ezek. Deeply does the Christian minister feel the responsibility of this holy separation, that he may give himself wholly to his office (1 Timothy 4:15; 2 Timothy 2:4). There is a path before each person that seems right, but it ends in death. But there is, after all, no comparison between this kind of forced irrigation and that which is the result of natural causes. a. But the tongue can reach a thousand hearts at one time, and make men its slaves, not in twos and threes but in masses. To this tower the wicked are sometimes driven in distress, then seeking help here, when it is nowhere else to be found. Solomon here sets forth. They keep no daily reckoningno accounts; and so their money is gone, they cant tell howthey had no idea they were living at such a rate!and even when they have made the discovery there is no improvement. A man must exert himselfhe must seekand his exertions must be wisely directed if he is to possess that knowledge which is better than any material treasure because it enriches the better part of a man. Partner with StudyLight.org as God uses us to make a difference for those displaced by Russia's war on Ukraine. Like the apostles of old, he cannot but speak the things which he has seen and heard (Acts 4:20). Time has crumbled their once mighty walls, and made them unfit for purposes of defence. Jobs incautious self-defence was laid open by Elihus probing application. Contempt and reproach are their final portion. The man who trusts in material wealth as his chief good, has either made too low an estimate of his own needs, or too high an estimate of the power of wealth. Or intense excitement of the mind renders them for a time at least oblivious of bodily sensations. 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. In my early childhood a fact regarding the relations of matter came under my observation which I now see has its analogue in the moral laws. 1. This was not an untruth, and appearances were certainly very much against her innocent victim, but if Joseph had been allowed to tell his story too, the truth might have come to light. 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. 4 The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring . esther job psalms proverbs ecclesiastes song of solomon isaiah jeremiah lamentations ezekiel Control. That great abilities are gifts from God. The cold-hearted, speculative professor has his flowsometimes a torrent of words, yet without a drop of profitable matter; chilling, even when doctrinally correct; without life, unction, or love. Self-love is the twist in the heart within, and self-interest is the side to which the variation from righteousness steadily tends. The heart makes the lie, deceiving first the man himself, and thereafter his neighbours. 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