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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 21:5

Here is, 1. The way to be rich. If we would live plentifully and comfortably in the world, we must be diligent in our business, and not shrink from the toil and trouble of it, but prosecute it closely, improving all advantages and opportunities for it, and doing what we do with all our might; yet we must not be hasty in it, nor hurry ourselves and others with it, but keep doing fair and softly, which, we say, goes far in a day. With diligence there must be contrivance. The thoughts of the... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 21:6

This shows the folly of those that hope to enrich themselves by dishonest practices, by oppressing and over-reaching those with whom they deal, by false-witness-bearing, or by fraudulent contracts, of those that make no scruples of lying when there is any thing to be got by it. They may perhaps heap up treasures by these means, that which they make their treasure; but, 1. They will not meet with the satisfaction they expect. It is a vanity tossed to and fro; it will be disappointment and... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 21:7

See here, 1. The nature of injustice. Getting money by lying (Prov. 21:6) is no better than downright robbery. Cheating is stealing; you might as well pick a man's pocket as impose upon him by a lie in making a bargain, which he had no fence against but by not believing you; and it will be no excuse from the guilt of robbery to say that he might choose whether he would believe you, for that is a debt we should owe to all men. 2. The cause of injustice. Men refuse to do judgment; they will not... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 21:8

This shows that as men are so is their way. 1. Evil men have evil ways. If the man be froward, his way also is strange; and this is the way of most men, such is the general corruption of mankind. They have all gone aside (Ps. 14:2, 3); all flesh have perverted their way. But the froward man, the man of deceit, that acts by craft and trick in all he does, his way is strange, contrary to all the rules of honour and honesty. It is strange, for you know not where to find him nor when you have him;... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 21:9

See here, 1. What a great affliction it is to a man to have a brawling scolding woman for his wife, who upon every occasion, and often upon no occasion, breaks out into a passion, and chides either him or those about her, is fretful to herself and furious to her children and servants, and, in both, vexatious to her husband. If a man has a wide house, spacious and pompous, this will embitter the comfort of it to him?a house of society (so the word is), in which a man may be sociable, and... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 21:10

See here the character of a very wicked man. 1. The strong inclination he has to do mischief. His very soul desires evil, desires that evil may be done and that he may have the pleasure, not only of seeing it, but of having a hand in it. The root of wickedness lies in the soul; the desire that men have to do evil, that is the lust which conceives and brings forth sin. 2. The strong aversion he has to do good: His neighbour, his friend, his nearest relation, finds no favour in his eyes, cannot... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 21:11

This we had before (Prov. 19:25), and it shows that there are two ways by which the simple may be made wise:?1. By the punishments that are inflicted on those that are incorrigibly wicked. Let the law be executed upon a scorner, and even he that is simple will be awakened and alarmed by it, and will discern, more than he did, the evil of sin, and will take warning by it and take heed. 2. By the instructions that are given to those that are wise and willing to be taught: When the wise is... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 21:5

The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness ,.... A man that is thoughtful and studious, and wisely forms schemes in his mind, and diligently pursues them; the issue of it is, generally speaking, prosperity and plenty: such a man is usually thriving and flourishing; and this holds good in things spiritual, as well as in things temporal, Matthew 25:29 ; but of everyone that is hasty only to want ; that is in haste to be rich, and is resolved to be so, right or wrong, he... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 21:6

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue ,.... By telling lies in trade; by bearing false witness in a court of judicature; or by preaching false doctrines in the church of God: is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death : such treasures, though ever so great, are like any light thing, smoke or vapour, straw, stubble, chaff, or a feather, tossed about the wind; which is expressive of the instability uncertainty of riches ill gotten; they do not last long, but are taken... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 21:7

The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them ,.... Or cut them, so Ben Melech: dissect or "saw" F19 יגורם "dissecabit eos", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; "serrabit eos", Aben Ezra & Kimchi in Mercer. Michaelis; "gravem ipsis uterum trahit", Schultens. them; cut them to the heart; that is, when the sins they have been guilty of, in robbing God of his due, or doing injury to men in their properties, cheating them or stealing from them, are set home on their consciences, they... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 21:5

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 21:6

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 21:7

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 21:8

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 21:9

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 21:10

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 21:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 21:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 21:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 21:7

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