{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/geneva/pro019.htm","path":"bib/cmt/geneva/pro019.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/geneva/pro019.htm","text":"The Geneva Bible Translation Notes, [1599]\n(a) To have comfort from them.\nHe that getteth wisdom (b) loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good.\n(b) He that is upright in judgment finds favour from God.\n(c) Delight is not proper for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.\n(c) The free use of things are not to be permitted to him who cannot use them correctly.\nThe discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and [it is] his glory (d) to pass over a transgression.\n(d) That is, to cover it by charity, and to do in it as may most serve to God's glory.\nA foolish son [is] the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife [are] a continual (e) dropping.\n(e) As rain that drops and rots the house.\nA man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou (f) deliver [him], yet thou must do it again.\n(f) Though for a time he gives place to counsel, yet soon after will he give place to his raging affections.\n[There are] many devices in a (g) man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.\n(g) Man's device will not have success, unless God governs it, whose purpose is unchangeable.\nThe desire of a man [is] his (h) kindness: and a poor man [is] better than a liar.\n(h) That is, that he be honest: for the poor man who is honest is to be esteemed above the rich who is not virtuous.\nSmite a scorner, and the (i) simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, [and] he will understand knowledge.\n(i) That is, the simple and ignorant men learn when they see the wicked punished.\nAn ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked (k) devoureth iniquity.\n(k) Takes a pleasure and delight in it, as gluttons and drunkards in delicate meats and drinks.","title":"The Geneva Bible Translation Notes [1599]: Proverbs: Prov...","type":"page"}