A wood gathers wood, like all vegetable or vital growths. II. This is the best policy for security. Take the sinner in his first awakening conviction. Granted that it is a defence against some very real ills, who can insure to himself a continuance of his present possessions? Who can translate all its outgoings? The very name that is cavilled at by the lost is the foundation of the Christians safety. 18 m Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. Wealth is a fortress with a most uncertain foundation. When people become too confident in their own opinions, they are liable to break away from former friends. 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. Understanding the gift here spoken of as a special mental endowment (see Hitzig), we remark. The simple power to influence men by speech will gratify for the momentbut if the increase of the lips is to be an abiding source of contentment there must be a consciousness that the power has been used to benefit mankind in some way or otherthat the skilful pleading has been on the side of right, that the powerful logic has been used to expose the false and to defend the true, or the brilliant oratory has had for its aim the moral enlightenment and strengthening of the listeners. Pro 18:1 Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh [and] intermeddleth with all wisdom. 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. This is true in relation to any and every kind of evil to which men are exposed. Zibas cause seemed just in Davids eyes, until Mephibosheths explanation searched him to his confusion. 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. When the eleven Apostles were awaiting the seal of their commission, they felt that they had no time to waste in contending who should fill up the empty place in their bandthey knew that, although they were brethren in Christ, they might differ in their opinions in the matterand they therefore wisely determined to decide it by referring to the lot. 3 When wickedness comes, so does contempt, and with shame comes reproach. The truth is they contrive to infuse their poison without a bite. CRITICAL NOTES. Proverbs 18:1.Through desire, etc.The readings and expositions of this verse are many. You faith tested - Jesus sees. Zockler translates, "He that separateth himself seeketh his own pleasure, against all counsel doth he rush on," and the renderings of Stuart, Miller, and Delitzsch are substantially the same, except that Delitzsch translates the latter clause"against all that is . The readings and expositions of this verse are many. Spiritual sickness varies (as some diseases do in the body according to the constitution of the sick) thereafter as the soul is that hath it, whether regenerate or reprobate. Verse Proverbs 18:1. They that love it, i.e., make it a special object of gratification (Stuart). then, but not till then, will those be exposed to danger who have put their trust in Him. He does violence to his own understandingto those mental faculties which enable him to place things side by side and to compare them, and to sift and weigh evidence before he arrives at a conclusion. Satisfied. The self-conceited man assumes a very sagacious and penetrating looksits down with apparent determination to hear out the cause on both sides, and to judge righteous judgment. But it is hardly well begun, when the self-conceited man sees to the end of it. It is surprising with what agility this spirit of self-conceit gets over difficulties. Scripture: Proverbs 18:19. Through desire a man having separated himself, seeketh,. Or, "a separated man seeketh desire" g; his own desire, will, and pleasure. The stronghold of the man who trusts in riches. A man who gives judgment in a matter before he has heard all the facts of the case wrongs himself. Others have been honored for their kind and wise . Click to donate today! And if they keep their power and influence throughout the term of their human probation, their names will be contemned by posterity, and in the day when everyone receives the things done in his body (2 Corinthians 5:10), they shall awake to shame and everlasting contempt (Daniel 12:2). if there is the absence of all sober and considerate calculation, and, as a consequence, no due proportioning of outlay to income, but a reckless and wasteful expenditure, leaving an unlooked-for deficiencya woful amount minusat the years end? As in similar verses, Miller translates a wounded spirit: a spirit of upbraiaing. It matters not in what condition man is found, whether in riches or in poverty, whether ignorant and rude or highly civilized and educated, he needs the friendship of one or more of his fellow creatures. ], ". This word, falling from heaven on the busy life of man, is echoed back from every quarter in a universal acknowledgment of its justness. This scripture reveals a crook in the creature that God made upright. Home; . [Note: Toy, p. 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. What, if I should return to the world, look back, give up my profession, yield to my own deceitful heart, and perish at last with aggraved condemnation? You are walking outside the gates of your tower; no wonder that your imprudence exposes you to the fiery darts of the wicked. Read again the name of the Lord! III. Verse 4. How many illustrations of this last case we have in men who have been desperately wounded in battle, and yet have been so intensely absorbed in the terrible contest that they have seemed scarcely aware of it, and have kept their position until their strength has utterly failed. 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. NLT. If the soul, therefore, would lie quiet, and yield to its own light, it would be joined by what is higher, and would contain, or control its own malady; God helping, as He would, would check, and get the better of it; but a spirit of upbraidingand by this is meant precisely the quarrel (chap. 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. We talk about fetching up a lost hour, but the thing is impossible. If you say he spent the night in a den of lions you read the story superficially. Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. Because the flow is natural and spontaneous. The need of cross-examinationof another to come and search him. Questioning may not convict the first person of any mis-statement, but it may elicit other facts which give quite a different colouring to the whole. He separates himself from all outward hindrances, vain company, trifling amusements or studies, needless engagements, that he may seek and intermeddle with all wisdom. In this verse the thought is the advantage of its use as putting an end to contention. II. It would be a difficult matter, and perhaps an impossible one, to enumerate all the respective moral advantages of poverty and riches, and strike the true balance between them. 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! However, we do not feel this is the best method for using the Blue Letter Bible. A man's gift maketh room for him and bringeth him before great men. Partner with StudyLight.org as God uses us to make a difference for those displaced by Russia's war on Ukraine. Even women have borne the most severe bodily sufferings not only with fortitude but with exultationlifted above their bodily pain by a vivid realisation of unseen and spiritual realities and an intense consciousness of the favour of God. ProverbsChapter 18. A man's gift makes room for him and brings him before great men. Proverbs 18:16. 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. Findeth implies the rarity of the thing obtained (Ecclesiastes 7:27-28), and the need of circumspection in the search. Wait till God speaks, and the case will look very differently.Miller. Water may be sent through a tract of country by artificial means; fields may be watered and reservoirs filled by calling in science to supply natural deficiencies. Men would justly say that the house or the picture had as yet no existence, and therefore could not be judged. The last clause of this verse may be divided into two smaller ones and placed in apposition, thus: a bubbling brook,a fountain of wisdom. The Pharisees were such; from the Hebrew, pharash, to separate. II. Oh, how hard it is when your spirit has been wounded. and there is a friend [there is a special friend] who will stick closer than a brother ( Proverbs 18:24 ). Life is full of changes and challenges. When the Lord reckons with His servants, He will account that talent mis-used which is used for self-aggrandisement alone. Proverbs 2:7), yielding the sense the lost man sits careless to what is stable. He does not regard it. 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). Doubtless there is secular truth in all this The disgraced citizen is often the most reproachful.Miller. I. This proverb treats of a twofold aspect of human life which furnishes a strong proof of the fallen condition of human nature. It is a fine adage, even for this world but when applied to our Great Brother, and to our God and King, it is one of the noblest of inspired texts. Things go on as before; and still (to use rather a colloquial, but sufficiently expressive phrase), what is taken in by the door is thrown out by the window; and still the wonder continues how it goes! We have before given a definition of prudence as wisdom applied to practice; a prudent man is likewise defined as one cautious to avoid harm. Taking in both definitions, the text suggests. 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. unfriendliness and unreasonableness are inseparable." 4 The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring . The phrase may meanWhen the wicked cometh into intimacy, companionship, familiarity, then cometh contempt.He who admits the wicked to his intimacymakes him his associatemust share the infamy of his ill-chosen companion. That this is by no means the rule we have many proofs, but that the tendency is strong we know not only from observation but from the frequent warnings against it in the Word of God. i. 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. In 1969, after graduating from Talbot Theological Seminary, John came to Grace Community Church. The aims of a man left to himself is really a translation of but two words, meaning a separated one seeks. So if a man is to be a wise man, if his mental and spiritual capabilities are to be developed as his Creator intended they should be, he must at times separate himselfa certain amount of solitude is indispensable. Here again, as in Proverbs 18:4, the Hebrew word ish is used for man. So same concept, another proverb. since against everything stable he just lets himself roll. The whole meaning is that the lost man is in high chase under the spur of appetite, and ruthlessly bears down everything stable.Miller. That great abilities are gifts from God. spit on the common good. This fact has often tried the faith of righteous men. O what an amount of scorn and reproach has been brought upon the sacred office of the ministry by the intrusion, under numberless pretexts, and from numberless causes, of wicked, worldly, ungodly men into its holy functions! Many of those who fawned upon them and flattered them while they were prospering will be most ready to scorn and upbraid them, if the day of their retribution arrives before they quit this world. 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 motive is through (his own) desire of being esteemed singularly learned, as Proverbs 18:2 shows, not from sincere delight in understanding. His aim is singularity, through self-seeking desire (Psalms 10:3; Psalms 112:10) of raising himself to a separate elevation from the common crowd, and of being thought versed in all that can be known: so he intermeddleth with all wisdom. His restless appetite for making himself peculiar and separate from others is marked by the indefinite verb seeketh, it not being added what he seeketh, for he hardly knows himself what.Fausset. Sure enough the wall was according to rule, and yet the wall was not plumb. Stuart understands this in the sense of to deserve., Proverbs 18:8. And he that answers a matter before he hears it, it is folly and a shame to him. Time, says J. And so it is with the speech of a godly man. Chapter 18 of Proverbs is full of wisd. Speech, even without any attempt at concealment, must be endlessly deep and wide as uttering all our being. Scripture: Proverbs 18:13. Others read as in the authorised version. There is a secular and a spiritual in every proverb. God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him Learn more about Desiring God Proverbs 30:8-9), and that one of the sins to which the rich man is most liable is that of inconsiderateness of the claims of his poor brother, and even of insolence towards him. The sources of the evil are various. If our strength were as an army, and our lands not limited save with east and west, if our meat were manna, and our garments as the ephod of Aaron; yet the afflicted conscience would refuse to be cheered with all these comforts. A man who does it proclaims that he values very lightly the reputation of those concerned, and is often a robber of what is more to a man than his purse, viz. There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death. 5 But there are moral fools who think it only an amusement to pick a quarrel, little heeding what the consequences of it may be, not caring if blows succeed to angry words, or perhaps even desiring that they should do so. And men are prone to go even beyond thisthe children of the same common Father often take delight in making their poor brethren feel their dependence on them, and instead of giving sympathy and help freely and after a brotherly fashion, they withhold the first entirely, and if they give the latter they do it coldly and even contemptuously. 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. We know the viper. The righteous is not a righteous man provero, but only righteous, he having the first chance to speak. Contempt and reproach are their final portion. And a man who has only heard a part of a matter is in no better position to judge in it, and commits as great a folly if he attempts to do so. One of the many temptations of wealth. The original here is difficult, and differently understood. 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. 2. Poverty seems as universal as disease and death, and must be referred to the same source. Every attempt at its removal still leaves some portion of it behind. The spirit of a man, at least among those to whom Solomon wrote, had truth enough to save him if he would only listen. h "immiscet se omni negotio", Munster; "omnibus quae sunt immiscet se", Junius & Tremellius. Going beyond these to utterances which have a wider influence, the proverb is no less true. There are certain mental capabilities which are the common inheritance of men in general, but it cannot be denied that there are men who, apart from all the differences made by circumstances and education, have capacities and abilities which far exceed those of ordinary men. He may unintentionally leave out facts which in the eyes of another person may be very important, or he may bring others into a prominence to which an impartial judge may not consider them entitled. b 3 A stone is heavy and sand is weighty, But the irritation caused by a fool is heavier than both. If a man desires to know the sweets of real friendship he must be prepared to be himself a real friend. 1. Verses 1-2. Casting his eye along the work, as he laid down his tools and adjusted his apron, he detected a defect, and instantly called out to his senior partner that the wall was not plumb. Who cannot rest till he good fellows find,He breaks up house, turns out of doors his mind.. 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