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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 24:11-12

Here is, 1. A great duty required of us, and that is to appear for the relief of oppressed innocency. If we see the lives or livelihoods of any in danger of being taken away unjustly, we ought to bestir ourselves all we can to save them, by disproving the false accusations on which they are condemned and seeking out proofs of their innocency. Though the persons be not such as we are under any particular obligation to, we must help them, out of a general zeal for justice. If any be set upon by... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 24:13-14

We are here quickened to the study of wisdom by the consideration both of the pleasure and the profit of it. 1. It will be very pleasant. We eat honey because it is sweet to the taste, and upon that account we call it good, especially that which runs first from the honey-comb. Canaan was said to flow with milk and honey, and honey was the common food of the country (Luke 24:41, 42), even for children, Isa. 7:15. Thus should we feed upon wisdom, and relish the good instructions of it. Those... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 24:15-16

This is spoken, not so much by way of counsel to wicked men (they will not receive instruction, Prov. 23:9), but rather in defiance of them, for the encouragement of good people that are threatened by them. See here, 1. The designs of the wicked against the righteous, and the success they promise themselves in those designs. The plot is laid deeply: They lay wait against the dwelling of the righteous, thinking to charge some iniquity upon it, or compass dome design against it; they lie in wait... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 24:17-18

Here, 1. The pleasure we are apt to take in the troubles of an enemy is forbidden us. If any have done us an ill turn, or if we bear them ill-will only because they stand in our light or in our way, when any damage comes to them (suppose they fall), or any danger (suppose they stumble), our corrupt hearts are too apt to conceive a secret delight and satisfaction in it?Aha! so would we have it; they are entangled; the wilderness has shut them in?or, as Tyrus said concerning Jerusalem (Ezek.... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 24:19-20

Here, 1. He repeats the caution he had before given against envying the pleasures and successes of wicked man in their wicked ways. This he quotes from his father David, Ps. 37:1. We must not in any case fret ourselves, or make ourselves uneasy, whatever God does in his providence how disagreeable soever it is to our sentiments, interests, and expectations, we must acquiesce in it. Even that which grieves us must not fret us; nor must our eye be evil against any because God is good. Are we... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 24:21-22

Note, 1. Religion and loyalty must go together. As men, it is our duty to honour our Creator, to worship and reverence him, and to be always in his fear; as members of a community, incorporated for mutual benefit, it is our duty to be faithful and dutiful to the government God has set over us, Rom. 13:1, 2. Those that are truly religious will be loyal, in conscience towards God; the godly in the land will be the quite in the land; and those are not truly loyal, or will be so no longer than is... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 24:11

If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death ,.... Or "taken for or unto death" F8 לקחים למות "captos ad mortem", Montanus. Piscator, Schultens. , in a violent way; who are taken by thieves and robbers, and used in a barbarous manner, as the man in the parable, whom the priest and Levite took no notice of, and was helped by the good Samaritan; or who are unjustly sentenced and appointed to death by the civil magistrate; if any know their innocency, it becomes them to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 24:12

If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not ,.... The danger the person was in; or the innocency of his cause; or what method to take to deliver him; or that it was in our power to do anything for him; so the Vulgate Latin version, "if thou sayest, strength is not sufficient": or "we knew him not" F11 לא ידענו זה , ουκ οιδα τουτον , Sept. "non noverimus istum", Gejerus; "non novimus hunc", Pagninus, Montanus, Michaelis. , who he was or what he was; had no knowledge of him, or... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 24:13

My son, eat thou honey, because it is good ,.... It is good for food; there was plenty of it in Palestine, and it was eaten for food, not only by children, but grown persons; and was very nourishing, strengthening, and refreshing to them, as Samson, Jonathan, John the Baptist, and others; and is good for medicine, is healthful and salutary, and useful in many diseases: it is said F13 Athenaei Deipnosophist. l. 2. c. 7. p. 46, 47. so Pierius Valerian. apud Steeb. Coelum Sephirot Heb. c.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 24:14

So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul ,.... Or let it be taken in as greedily and with as good an appetite; as pleasant, useful, delightful, and profitable; even the knowledge of Christ, the Wisdom of God, which is preferable to all things else, and more desirable than the most pleasant and profitable things in the world; and of the Gospel of Christ, the wisdom of God in a mystery, than which nothing is more sweet and comfortable to a truly gracious soul; it is like Ezekiel's... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 24:11-12

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 24:13-14

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 24:15-16

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 24:17-18

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 24:19-20

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 24:21-22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 24:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 24:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 24:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 24:14

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