{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/jfb/pro018.htm","path":"bib/cmt/jfb/pro018.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/jfb/pro018.htm","text":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]\nThrough desire . . . seeketh--that is, seeks selfish gratification.\nintermeddleth . . . wisdom--or, \"rushes on\" (Pro 17:14) against all wisdom, or what is valuable (Pro 2:7).\nthat his heart . . . itself--that is, takes pleasure in revealing his folly (Pro 12:23; Pro 15:2).\nSo surely are sin and punishment connected (Pro 16:4).\nwicked, for \"wickedness,\" answers to\nignominy, or the state of such; and\ncontempt, the feeling of others to them; and to\nreproach, a manifestation of contempt.\nWise speech is like an exhaustless stream of benefit.\naccept the person--(Compare Psa 82:2). \"It is not good\" is to be supplied before \"to overthrow.\"\nThe quarrelsome bring trouble on themselves. Their rash language ensnares them (Pro 6:2).\n(Compare Pro 16:28).\nas wounds--not sustained by the Hebrew; better, as \"sweet morsels,\" which men gladly swallow.\ninnermost . . . belly--the mind, or heart (compare Pro 20:27-30; Psa 22:14).\nOne by failing to get, the other by wasting wealth, grows poor.\nwaster--literally, \"master of washing,\" a prodigal.\nname of the Lord--manifested perfections (Psa 8:1; Psa 20:2), as faithfulness, power, mercy, &c., on which men rely.\nis safe--literally, \"set on high, out of danger\" (Psa 18:2; Psa 91:4).\ncontrasts with Pro 18:10 (compare Pro 10:15). Such is a vain trust (compare Psa 73:6).\n(Compare Pro 15:33; Pro 16:18).\nHasty speech evinces self-conceit, and ensures shame (Pro 26:12).\ninfirmity--bodily sickness, or outward evil. The spirit, which sustains, being wounded, no support is left, except, as implied, in God.\n(Compare Pro 1:5, Pro 1:15, Pro 1:31).\n(Compare Pro 17:8, Pro 17:23). Disapproval of the fact stated is implied.\nOne-sided statements are not reliable.\nsearcheth--thoroughly (Pro 17:9, Pro 17:19).\nThe lot--whose disposal is of God (Pro 16:13), may, properly used, be a right mode of settling disputes.\nNo feuds so difficult of adjustment as those of relatives; hence great care should be used to avoid them.\n(Compare Pro 12:14; Pro 13:2). Men's words are the fruit, or, increase of his lips, and when good, benefit them.\nsatisfied with--(Compare Pro 1:31; Pro 14:14).\nDeath and life--or, the greatest evil and good.\nthat love it--that is, the tongue, or its use for good or evil.\neat . . . fruit--(Compare Pro 18:19; Jam 1:19).\nThe old versions supply \"good\" before the \"wife,\" as the last clause and Pro 19:14 imply (compare Pro 31:10).\nthe rich . . . roughly--He is tolerated because rich, implying that the estimate of men by wealth is wrong.\nA man . . . friendly--better, \"A man . . . (is) to, or, may triumph (Psa 108:9), or, shout for joy (Psa 5:11), that is, may congratulate himself.\" Indeed, there is a Friend who is better than a brother; such is the \"Friend of sinners\" [Mat 11:19; Luk 7:34], who may have been before the writer's mind.","title":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments: Proverbs: Proverbs Chapter 18","type":"page"}