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# Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

*Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown*

The Victorian standard commentary, critical and practical, from Genesis to Revelation.

## 258. Proverbs · 8 of 27

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[¶0] 18. Both vices must one day be known and punished, and hence their folly.

[¶1] 19. Much speech involves risk of sin; hence the wisdom of restraining the tongue ([Psa 39:1]; [Jas 1:26]).

[¶2] 20. Right speech is the fruit of a good heart, but the wicked show theirs to be useless.

[¶3] 21. Fools not only fail to benefit others, as do the righteous, but procure their own ruin (compare [Pr 10:11], ; [Ho 4:6]).

[¶4] 22. it maketh, &c.--"it" is emphatic. Riches from God are without the sorrow of ill-gotten wealth (compare [Ec 2:21-23]; [1Ti 6:9], 10, 17).

[¶5] 23. Sin is the pleasure of the wicked; wisdom that of the good.

[¶6] 24. it--the very thing. The wicked get dreaded evil; the righteous, desired good.

[¶7] 25. (Compare [Psa 1:4]; 37:9, 10, 36).

[¶8] righteous ... foundation--well laid and firm ([Mt 7:24], ).

[¶9] 26. that is, causes vexation.

[¶10] 27. (Compare [Pr 9:11]; [Psa 55:23]).

[¶11] 28. gladness--in confidence of realizing it.

[¶12] expectation ... perish--in disappointment.

[¶13] 29. The way, &c.--that is, God's providence sustains the righteous and overthrows the wicked ([Ho 14:9]).

[¶14] 30. (Compare [Pr 12:3]; Psa 37:9-11; 102:28).

[¶15] earth--or, "land of promise."

[¶16] 31. bringeth forth--literally, "germinates" as a plant.

[¶17] froward--(Compare [Pr 2:12], ).

[¶18] cut off--as an unproductive plant.

[¶19] 32. know--regard and provide for ([Psa 1:6]).

[¶20] frowardness--all kinds of deceit and ill-nature. The word is plural.

### Chapter 11

[¶22] [Pr 11:1-31].

[¶23] 1. (Compare Margin). The Hebrews used stones for weights.

[¶24] just--complete in measure.

[¶25] 2. Self-conceit is unteachable; the humble grow wise (compare [Pr 16:18]; ).

[¶26] 3. guide--to lead, as a shepherd ([Pr 6:7]; [Psa 78:52]).

[¶27] perverseness--ill-nature.

[¶28] destroy--with violence.

[¶29] 4. (Compare [Pr 10:2]).

[¶30] wrath--that is, of God.

[¶31] 5. direct--or, "make plain"; wicked ways are not plain ([Pr 13:17]).

[¶32] 6. deliver them--that is, from evil, which the wicked suffer by their own doings ([Pr 5:22]; [Psa 9:16]).

[¶33] 7. expectation ... perish--for death cuts short all his plans ([Lu 16:25]).

[¶34] hope of unjust--better, "hope of wealth," or "power" (compare [Is 40:29], Hebrew). This gives an advance on the sentiment of the first clause. Even hopes of gain die with him.

[¶35] 8. Perhaps the trouble prepared by the wicked, and which he inherits (compare [Pr 11:6]).

[¶36] 9. (Compare [Psa 35:16]; [Da 11:32]). The just is saved by superior discernment.

[¶37] 10-11. The last may be a reason for the first. Together, they set forth the relative moral worth of good and bad men.

[¶38] 12. despiseth--or, "reviles," a course contrasted with the prudent silence of the wise.

[¶39] holdeth his peace--as if neither hearing nor telling.

[¶40] 13. tale-bearer--(Compare Margin), one trading as a peddler in scandal, whose propensity to talk leads him to betray confidence.

[¶41] 14. counsel--the art of governing ([Pr 1:5]).

[¶42] counsellors--literally, "one giving counsel"; the participle used as a collective.

[¶43] 15. (Compare [Pr 6:1]).

[¶44] suretiship--(Compare Margin), the actors put for the action, which may be lawfully hated.