Proverbs 22:7-16

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 22:15

Proverbs 22:15Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of cor-rection shall drive it far from him.Foolishness and the remedyI. The evil deplored.1. Of what does this foolishness consist? Wrong wishes, purposes, thoughts, pride, sin, levity, etc.2. Where does this foolishness lurk? In the heart. Deep in the nature, among the affections. Hidden, secret, for some time unknown. In the heart of a “child,” even of a little child.3. How this foolishness is held in the heart--“bound.”... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 22:16

Proverbs 22:16He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches . . . shall surely come to want. AvariceI. Oppression. “He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches “(R.V., “gain”). Everywhere do we see avarice working out its designs, and building up its fortunes by oppressing the poor. The poor have necessarily to cross the seas, to delve in mines, to toil in fields, to work in manufactories, to slave in shops and counting-houses. But avarice cares nothing for the health, the liberty,... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 22:7

Pro 22:7 The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower [is] servant to the lender. Ver. 7. The rich ruleth over the poor. ] And that with rigour, as Pharaoh did over Israel, as those imperious mammonists in St James’s time that oppressed and subjugated their poorest brethren, trampling upon them with the feet of intolerable insolence and cruelty. Jam 2:6 "Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children," said those poor Jews in Nehemiah, who pleads their... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 22:8

Pro 22:8 He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail. Ver. 8. He that soweth iniquity, shall reap vanity. ] The usurer and cruel creditor soweth his money, his mammon of iniquity (that ungain grain), upon his poor debtors; and whether it be a barren year or a fruitful, a good soil or a bad, luna affert menstruos sensus, he hath his constant pay, yea, his use upon use, according to that Greek verse, ‘ Eστι τοκος προ τοκοιο, τοκος τε μεν εστι και αλλος .’ Now,... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 22:9

Pro 22:9 He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor. Ver. 9. He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed. ] How Amalek, the licking people, as the name imports, I mean, the nation of usurers and proud lenders, shall speed, hath been spoken already. Now, on the other side, the bountiful eye, the cheerful giver (as the Septuagint, a and after them St Paul, render, or rather expound, this text), shall be abundantly blessed, for he gives with all his... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 22:10

Pro 22:10 Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease. Ver. 10. Cast out the scorner. ] Or, The evil interpreter, that construes everything to the worst, and so sows dissension. This is an evil instrument, and must be cashiered good company; the place where such a trouble town lives, longs for a vomit to spew him out. There is nothing that may not be taken with either hand. It is a spiritual unmannerliness to take it with the left, as that proud... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 22:11

Pro 22:11 He that loveth pureness of heart, [for] the grace of his lips the king [shall be] his friend. Ver. 11. He that loveth pureness of heart. ] That is vexed at his inward pollutions, and affecteth (what he can never fully effect) to be pure as God is pure. 1Jn 3:3 He that hath gotten that pure lip, Zep 3:9 called here the grace of his lips, and elsewhere the "law of grace," Pro 31:26 he that can skill of those good words that do ingratiate with God and man (Genesis 49:21 , compared with... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 22:12

Pro 22:12 The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor. Ver. 12. The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge. ] That is, Knowing persons. Those in the former verse that love truth in the inward parts, and hold this a rule, Truth must be spoken, however it be taken; these, howsoever they may suffer for a season, as Daniel in the den, Micaiah in the stock house, yet the watchful providence of God will preserve them, and provide for them. He will clear... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 22:13

Pro 22:13 The slothful [man] saith, [There is] a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets. Ver. 13. The slothful man saith, There is a lion, &c. ] ‘The lion is not so fierce as is painted,’ saith the Spanish proverb; much less this sluggard’s lion, a mere fiction of his own brain to cover and colour over his idleness. He pretends two lions for failing; first, Leo est foris, There is a lion abroad, or in the field, where his work lies, Psa 104:23 and another in the streets; - a likely... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 22:14

Pro 22:14 The mouth of strange women [is] a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein. Ver. 14. The month of a strange woman. ] Diabolus capite blanditur, ventre oblectat, cauda ligat, saith Rupertus. These she sinners, as their gallants call them, are most dangerous. See Trapp on " Pro 2:16 " See Trapp on " Pro 5:3 " Solomon had the woeful experience of it; Ecc 7:26 and Samson, Jdg 16:18-21 who “Lenam non potuit, potuit superare lesenam, Quem fera non potuit vincere,... read more

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