{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/jfb/pro017.htm","path":"bib/cmt/jfb/pro017.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/jfb/pro017.htm","text":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]\nsacrifices--or, \"feasts\" made with part of them (compare Pro 7:14; Lev 2:3; Lev 7:31).\nwith--literally, \"of.\"\nstrife--its product, or attendant.\n(Compare Pro 14:35).\ncauseth shame-- (Pro 10:5).\nshall . . . inheritance--that is, share a brother's part (compare Num 27:4, Num 27:7).\nGod only knows, as He tries (Psa 12:6; Psa 66:10) the heart.\nWicked doers and speakers alike delight in calumny.\n(Compare Pro 14:31).\nglad at calamities--rejoicing in others' evil. Such are rightly punished by God, who knows their hearts.\nProlonged posterity is a blessing, its cutting off a curse (Pro 13:22; Psa 109:13-15), hence children may glory in virtuous ancestry.\nExcellent speech--(Compare Margin). Such language as ill suits a fool, as lying (ought to suit) a prince (Pro 16:12-13).\nOne so corrupt as to take a bribe evinces his high estimate of it by subjection to its influence (Pro 18:16; Pro 19:6).\nseeketh love--(Compare Margin). The contrast is between the peace-maker and tale-bearer.\nReproof more affects the wise than severe scourging, fools.\nSuch meet just retribution (Kg1 2:25).\na cruel messenger--one to inflict it.\nThey are less rational in anger than wild beasts.\n(Compare Psa 7:4; Psa 35:12).\nevil--injury to another (Pro 13:21).\nletteth . . . water--as a breach in a dam.\nbefore . . . meddled with--before strife has become sharp, or, by an explanation better suiting the figure, before it rolls on, or increases.\nabomination . . . Lord--as reversing His method of acting (Pro 3:32; Pro 12:2).\nThough wealth cannot buy wisdom for those who do not love it, yet wisdom procures wealth (Pro 3:16; Pro 14:24).\nTo the second of these parallel clauses, there is an accession of meaning, that is, that a brother's love is specially seen in adversity.\n(Compare Pro 6:1-5; Pro 11:15).\nin the presence, &c.--that is, he either fails to consult his friend, or to follow his advice.\nstrife--contention is, and leads to, sin.\nhe that exalteth his gate--gratifies a vain love of costly building.\nseeketh--or, \"findeth,\" as if he sought (compare \"loveth death,\" Pro 8:36).\nThe second clause advances on the first. The ill-natured fail of good, and the cavilling and fault-finding incur evil.\n(Compare Pro 23:24). Different words are rendered by \"fool,\" both denoting stupidity and impiety.\n(Compare Pro 14:30; Pro 15:13). The effect of the mind on the body is well known.\nmedicine--or, \"body,\" which better corresponds with \"bone.\"\ndrieth--as if the marrow were exhausted.\na gift . . . bosom--Money and other valuables were borne in a fold of the garment, called the bosom.\nto pervert--that is, by bribery.\nWisdom . . . him--ever an object of regard, while a fool's affections are unsettled.\na grief--or cross, vexation (compare Pro 17:21; Pro 10:1).\nAlso--that is, Equally to be avoided are other sins: punishing good subjects, or resisting good rulers.\nPrudence of speech is commended as is an excellent or calm spirit, not excited to vain conversation.","title":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments: Proverbs: Proverbs Chapter 17","type":"page"}