h "immiscet se omni negotio", Munster; "omnibus quae sunt immiscet se", Junius & Tremellius. The necessity of the case seemed to warrant the deviation from the command. "He that separateth himself seeketh his own desire, And rageth against all sound wisdom.". The two evils censured are. 1 Unfriendly people care only about themselves; they lash out at common sense. 3. 1. This is true in relation to any and every kind of evil to which men are exposed. a. The redeemed will be employed throughout eternity in this delighted searching; exploring the breadth, and length, and depth, and height, until they be filled with all the fulness of God (Ephesians 3:18-19). David has recorded as his experience that he had seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay-treebut he passed by, and lo, he was not (Psalms 37:35). 18 The simple have folly as an adornment, but the shrewd wear knowledge as a crown. That all sorrow of heart does not crush a man. They use their privileges on no principle of economy. Proverbs 16:33, page 499). As brothers are the children of a common parent, so sloth and waste have their root in the common sin of ungodliness; men are spendthrifts or they are lazy, because they have no right sense of their obligations to God and to manbecause they do not look upon their life as a stewardship for which they must give an account (Romans 14:12), but as a gift which they are at liberty to spend as they please. We must separate ourselves from all those things which would divert us from or retard us in the pursuit, retire out of the noise of this world's vanities, and then seek and intermeddle with all the means and instructions of wisdom, be willing to take pains and try all the methods of improving ourselves, be acquainted with a variety of opinions, that we may prove all things and hold fast that which is good. "He that separates himself follows after his own desire, but against all sound wisdom he shows his teeth."-. tushigyah, lit. The word also here used may seem to refer this verse to that which goeth before it; and then it is a further description of a talebearer. He surely learned an awful lot about women. Time, when gone, never returns. 18:30-32; 33:11; 1 Tim. Proverbs 15:18 Commentary; Proverbs 15:19 Commentary; Proverbs 15:20 Commentary; . The name of the Lord. God has revealed Himself to men by many names, each one of which is intended to set forth some attribute of His perfect nature. There is in the wise a love of knowledge, and an application of the mental powers for its attainment. They read, they hear, they frequent ordinancesand yet their progress in spiritual attainments bears no proportion to the extent of their advantages. Blind passion is not to make the selection at random.Fausset. and yet, when the harvest is come, he may take his choice whether he will eat of the product or not. We humans keep brainstorming options and plans, but God's purpose prevails. We shun it. 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. The Vulgate, Septuagint, and Arabic, read as follows: "He who wishes to break with his friend, and seeks occasions or pretenses, shall at all times be worthy of blame.". So is it with contention, or a dispute in words. The evidence of one person alone must not be too much depended on. Proverbs 2:7), yielding the sense the lost man sits careless to what is stable. He does not regard it. 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. Talleyrand defined speech to be the art of concealing ones opinions. They become unreasonable in discussion and blind to the viewpoints of others. Some men spend days of solitude in patient investigation for no other purpose than to make a name for themselves. The words of the wise bring refreshment, but those of a fool or a gossip bring destruction (4-8).Those who leave work undone are almost as bad as those who wreck what already has been done (9). and a chain to adorn your neck. We must try to fathom the profound meaning which is hidden under this simple but striking proverb. This fact has often tried the faith of righteous men. And, like their Divine Master, they know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary (Isaiah 50:4), and thus that which flows from their lips is as refreshing and healthful to weary and struggling men and women on the highway of life as the living, cooling watercourse is to the dusty and thirsty traveller. Here again, as in Proverbs 18:4, the Hebrew word ish is used for man. They know their friend, and to them it is enough that he has been a sufferer; they take it for granted that he must be in the right. III. If he would grow wise in the mysteries of the natural world he must oftentimes shut himself away from the haunts of men, and ponder the manifold phenomena which creation presents to him, and endeavour to unravel her secrets. 2 A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing his own opinions. A man who is in the general sense of the term an ignorant manwho does not possess even the rudimentary knowledge of an ordinary schoolboyis liable to be imposed upon and deceived by those who know more. Verse 1. CRITICAL NOTES. Proverbs 18:1.Through desire, etc.The readings and expositions of this verse are many. The acts of the prodigal and the slothful man differ in themselves, but they all spring from that spirit of self-pleasing which is the essence of ungodliness. To this tower the wicked are sometimes driven in distress, then seeking help here, when it is nowhere else to be found. I. NASB There is a way which seems right to a person, But its end is the way of death. Wealth is a fortress with a most uncertain foundation. Very mighty are the influence of words for good or for ill. Our first parents lost Eden by listening to the words of the tempter, and the speech of the wicked always diffuses an unwholesome moral atmosphere around it, if it does not eject a deadly poison into the soul. Unfriendly people care only about themselves; they lash out at common sense. The man of business or science is filled with his great object; and through desire he separates himself from all lets and hindrances, that he may intermeddle with its whole range. When such expectations are disappointed, the wound in the spirit is proportionately deeper, and more difficult of healingthe breach wider, and harder of being made up. This strong refuge is not only safe, but set aloft, so the word signifies, out of the gunshot. Men have been, and still are, able to find among their fellows those who are worthy of the name of friend. This thought is still clearer in the verse that follows:Death and life are in the power (literally the hand) of the tongue. There can be no doubt that mens conduct (for tongue is but the leading instrument of it) determines death or life, yet, in spite of the adventurous hazard, their love to it (or literally, just as they love this or that sort of tongue), they shall eat its fruit, and incur, of course, fearful responsibilities.Miller. 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. It is an outline which God has given to him to be filled up in a certain timespiritual and mental capacities and abilities are bestowed upon him which he is expected so to use as to form a godly noble character, and he cannot afford to waste any of the life given him for this purpose in contention with his brother man, thereby arousing the devil within himself and in him with whom he disputes. Verse 6. The bite of a viper is not so deadly as the wound of these talebearers stories and insinuations. There are several methods by which a city may be won. An alternative interpretation is not difficult to find. The Hebrew: lethaavah yebakkesh niphrad, bechol tushiyah yithgalla. 18 Loners who care only for themselves. The heart is the core of any human being and is the true measure of who we are. Speech, even without any attempt at concealment, must be endlessly deep and wide as uttering all our being. An impregnable refuge. But at other times it is as a flowing brook, more shallow for capacity, but more forcible also in the stream of it, and either by persuasive exhortation carrying on the hearers to a pursuit of virtue and godliness, or else by a dissuasive reproof carrying them away from the practice of wickedness, and in both washing away the stains of their sinful lives. 2 Fools have no interest in understanding; they only want to air their own opinions. Can't agree on something, we'll flip a coin. Proverbs 13:8, page 302), but the evil of the text is a very real and common one. The heart of the prudent gets knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge. A fool has no delight in understanding: The wise man or woman has great satisfaction in knowledge, understanding, and wisdom. A pretty thing for him to cavil! He has before mentioned some of its advantages (see chap. There is. Many offences touch the body which extend not to the soul; but if the soul be grieved, the sympathising flesh suffers deeply with it. It is to a man of this stagnant and lazy temperament an exertion quite unbearable to keep his mind so long on the stretch as to listen even to a statement, and still more to an argument or pleading, that cannot be finished in a breath and done with. In the field of the world, the tares grow as well as the wheat (Matthew 13:26), and often they seem for a time to be more flourishing. All spiritual communisms bless.Miller. His enemy now suggests that it is beyond his reach; that he has sinned too long and too much, against too much light and knowledge; how can he be saved? ", Bible by Barker, 1615: "Fro the desire thereof he will separate himself to seeke it, and occupie himself in all wisdome." KJV. When the wicked comes, then comes also contempt, and with ignominy reproach. A thousand counterfeit coins, even if they pass as genuine for a time, are nothing worth in comparison with one real golden sovereign. g So the Targum. Then your body also is full of darkness. The name I AM, by which He revealed Himself to Israel (Exodus 3:14) set forth His eternal self-existence, but He has also revealed Himself by names which are used to express human relations, such as king, judge, husband, father. Blessed Are the Unoffendable. Those who are truly wise seek wisdom for its own sake. 2. One greater than Solomon astonished the people by the clearness, no less than by the depth of the waters (Matthew 7:28-29). 20 Whoever gives thought to the word 2 p will discover good, and blessed is he q who trusts in the L ord. Read the direction to trust in itWho is there among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant: that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? It's idea of flipping a coin, you know. II. Ignorance of physical and scientific truth often leads men to expose themselves to bodily danger without being aware of it, and ignorance of spiritual truth often causes men to become victims of great moral evil without realising their danger. But the grave, sooner or later, receives them both. . Sanctified sorrow, although it wounds the spirit, yet it only wounds it to raise it to a higher levelto make it capable of a more refined enjoyment. Coverdale thus: "Who so hath pleasure to sowe discorde, piketh a quarrel in every thinge. A man who isolates himself seeks his own desire: To cut one's self off from family, friends, and community is often to express a selfish desire. In every cause, the first information, if it have dwelt for a little in the judges mind, takes deep root, and colours and takes possession of it, insomuch that it will hardly be washed out unless either some clear falsehood be detected or some deceit in the statement thereof.Bacon. II. Why? Thus it was under the old dispensation. The one when he speaketh is not understood by the ear, the other when he speaketh is not understood by the heart: the words of the one are not apprehended, the wants of the other are not apprehended; the one is heard, but not conceived; the other is conceived, but not heard. But Samuel searched him, and laid open his rebellion. When this word vir is used for man in sacred Scriptures it signifieth one who is strong and mighty, and for his strength great and excellent, and then by a man here we may understand him who is mighty and great in knowledge; the words of such a man are as deep waters, to the bottom whereof the shallow capacity of every one is not able to reach. and observes, that their Rabbins explain it of Lot separating from Abraham, following the desires of his heart: but R. Saadiah Gaon better interprets it of an apostate from religion; that objects to everything solid and substantial, in a wrangling and contentious manner; and "shows his teeth" i at it, as Schultens, from the use of the Arabic word, renders it. ESV There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death. Unless he does this, the opinion that he forms to-day will be altered to-morrow, and his mind will never be firmly made up on any subject. Proverbs 18:16. Men cannot live a life of isolation and know anything of the enjoyment of life. A man, when he is alone, is more likely to see things as they really are; he is less under the influence of the seen and temporal than when he is in the market, or on the crowded highway, and consequently things unseen and eternal have a more powerful influence over him at such a season. Home; . A brother who is offended is harder to be won than a strong city ( Proverbs 18:19 ): So the idea is, don't offend your brother. than to o divide the spoil with the proud. Time, says J. If we have to decide between the two interpretations, one blaming and the other commending the life of isolation, the answer must be that the former is more in harmony with the broad, genial temper of the Book of Proverbs.Plumptre. Beginning with the familiar intercourse of every-day life, how true it is that the utterance of kindly words of sympathy, and advice and warning, have a tendency to make sunshine in the heart of him who utters them, while censorious, hasty, harsh words embitter and darken the spirit of their author. The stream is ready to flow, and sometimes can scarcely be restrained. But a good wife is the best friend of all (22-24). There seems no Scriptural prohibition to the use of this ordinance, provided it be exercised in a reverential dependence upon God, and not profaned for common purposes or worldly ends. If the kings and great men of the earth had resorted to this method of causing contentions to cease and parting between the mighty, how many homes and cities would have escaped overthrow, how many a fruitful and prosperous country would have been preserved from desolation, and how many a princely fortune would have remained in the hands of its rightful owners. A man can rise above pain of body. Dr. Constable's Expository Notes. It prevents waste of material wealth. Whoso findeth a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of the LORD ( Proverbs 18:21-22 ). If there is water beneath the surface of the earth it must force its way and find an outlet; it needs no hand of man to come to its aid; it penetrates the soil and forms a fertilising stream in obedience to natural law. His mouth is in his own destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul, for it is a law as old as the universe that with what measure ye meet it shall be measured to you again (Matthew 6:1-2). It may seem a very insignificant deed to strike a flint and steel together so as to produce a single spark, but one spark may produce a terrible and destructive fire. Some take it as a rebuke to an affected singularity. In this verse the thought is the advantage of its use as putting an end to contention. In my early childhood a fact regarding the relations of matter came under my observation which I now see has its analogue in the moral laws. He came at the appointed time, laid the foundations according to the specifications, and proceeded with his building, course upon course, according to the approved methods of his craft. Wait till God speaks, and the case will look very differently.Miller. An unbearable wound of spirit can be the portion of those only who have no sense of the favour of God. Pro 18:1 Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh [and] intermeddleth with all wisdom. II. Many men seek secular knowledge for the sole purpose of acquiring fame by the acquisition. We could as rationally set out to find a sound that had expired in air, as to find a lost moment. And when we reflect what infinite results depend upon what a man does with his time, we can see the force of the proverb, because the slothful man is a waster of the most precious commodity in this world. If he were to give his opinion upon a building as soon as the builders had dug out the foundation, or were to criticise a picture when the artist had only sketched its outline upon his canvas, he would be deemed a fool, and what he said would have no weight whatever. The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook. A man must exert himselfhe must seekand his exertions must be wisely directed if he is to possess that knowledge which is better than any material treasure because it enriches the better part of a man. (NEB) 3:33) or will their damnation (Ezek. Click to donate today! Human friendships cost. Control. Yea, they are not only carried unto it but into it, by placing their confidence in it, and making it their safety. The author of this proverb was a polygamisthis great experience qualified him to give an opinion upon the subjectbut we do not here find him dwelling upon the satisfaction of the harem, but upon the blessedness of a wife. When men take a pride in separating themselves from the sentiments and society of others, in contradicting all that has been said before them and advancing new notions of their own, which, though ever so absurd, they are wedded to, it is to gratify a desire or lust of vain-glory, and they are seekers and meddlers with that which does not belong to them. 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. A. Reynolds. 1. 5 Till now he had no idea of his need of salvation. The sympathy of passion with one or other of the parties. These names are often borne by men who are destitute of the qualifications and feelings proper to the relationships which they express, but when any one of them is applied to God it is applied to one who combines within Himself all those attributes of character in perfection which ought to be possessed in some degree by men who are called by these names. But it is pre-eminently the godly man who can sustain infirmity of body. II. I. Polygamy cannot be recommended by those who have practised it. Abigail Dodds Nov 7, 2020. 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. II. Wherefore, when the mighty strive, and might of reason standeth on both sides equally, being too strong for man to decide, let the Almighty by His lot decide it.Jermin. God exalts those who willingly take the lowest place (10-12).Strength of mind and spirit is more important in the battle of life than strength of body. As a muscle, the tongue isn't as capable of producing force as a leg or even the jaw, but its power is measured by the damage it can do and the life it can bring. 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. Let David be your example. Such a gift to a man is a gift for men. They are ever marvelling how other folks do. And then, when we look around us into the infinitely extended field of the Revelation of God, what a world of heavenly wisdom is there to intermeddle with! 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). March 12. III. Saul made himself appear just in his own cause. I. Whereas impatiency for anything that is lost taketh away the comfort of all that remaineth, yea, the comfort of thine own self.Jermin. If it be not so, the fruit of a mans mouth will be like the roll given to the apocalyptic seer, in the mouth as sweet as honey, but afterwards bitter. (Revelation 10:10.) In 1969, after graduating from Talbot Theological Seminary, John came to Grace Community Church. 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. Secularly, a wife is the highest treasure. Nov 7, 2020. (He hath no delight in knowledge, but in the displaying of his own thoughts.Hodgson.) Pride first, then the crash, but humility is precursor to honor. 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. Verses 1-2. But there is one friend who will stick closer than a brother. It gives a place for you. The special good-will of some who can feel with him and for him in all the vicissitudes of life is indispensable to his happiness. To commit sin is the killing of the soul; to refuse hope of mercy is to cast it down to hell. I. 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. The sources of the evil are various. (JB) The man who holds aloof seeks every pretext to bare his teeth; he defies all sound judgment. Solomon delivers a warning against the vainglorious passion of aspiring to an universal acquaintance and an empty popularity, such as was courted by his brother Absalom, which will bring with it no support in adversity, but will ruin a man by pride and rashness and prodigal expenditure.Wordsworth. 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. You if you're going to have friends, you've got to just be friendly. The answer is plain. If you store bad fruit (sin) in your heart, you will always produce sin, if you store good fruit, that is what your mouth (tongue . It is a universal tendency of fallen humanity to look exclusively on his own things and not on the things of others, and the wealth of the rich man enables him to indulge this tendency to its utmost. 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. When a wicked man enters upon the stage, that creature, the most degraded of the universe, and who has the least right to show any contempt, is the very person to be the most contemptuous; and the mortal who is himself most disgraced, shows the readiest mind to cry shame upon and to reproach and that even the Most High. Before destruction the heart of man is haughty ( Proverbs 18:11-12 ), That's again, "Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before the fall." He that answers a matter before he hears it, it's a folly and a shame ( Proverbs 18:13 ). 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