
Text -- Proverbs 13:9 (NET)




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The prosperity.

Wesley: Pro 13:9 - -- Shines with a pleasant and constant brightness. Rejoicing is here ascribed to the light, as it is to the sun, Psa 19:5, metaphorically.
Shines with a pleasant and constant brightness. Rejoicing is here ascribed to the light, as it is to the sun, Psa 19:5, metaphorically.

Their felicity shall have a hidden end.
Prosperity; the first, the greater, and it

Burns brightly, or continues, while the other, at best small, soon fails.
Clarke -> Pro 13:9
Clarke: Pro 13:9 - -- The light of the righteous rejoiceth - They shall have that measure of prosperity which shall be best for them; but the wicked, howsoever prosperous...
The light of the righteous rejoiceth - They shall have that measure of prosperity which shall be best for them; but the wicked, howsoever prosperous for a time, shall be brought into desolation. Light and lamp in both cases may signify posterity. The righteous shall have a joyous posterity; but that of the wicked shall be cut off. So 1Ki 11:36 : "And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light (
TSK -> Pro 13:9
TSK: Pro 13:9 - -- light : Pro 4:18; 1Ki 11:36; Psa 97:11, Psa 112:4
lamp : or, candle, Pro 20:20, Pro 24:20; Job 18:5, Job 18:6, Job 21:17; Isa 50:10, Isa 50:11; Mat 22...

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Barnes -> Pro 13:9
Barnes: Pro 13:9 - -- Very beautiful in its poetry is the idea of the light "rejoicing"in its brightness (compare Psa 19:5; Job 38:7). Note also the distinction between t...
Very beautiful in its poetry is the idea of the light "rejoicing"in its brightness (compare Psa 19:5; Job 38:7). Note also the distinction between the "light"and the "lamp."The righteous ones have the true light in them. That which belongs to the wicked is only derived and temporary, and even that shall be extinguished before long. Compare a like distinction in Joh 1:8; Joh 5:35.
Poole -> Pro 13:9
Poole: Pro 13:9 - -- The light the prosperity or happiness, which is oft called a light or lamp in Scripture, and other authors.
Rejoiceth shineth with a pleasant and...
The light the prosperity or happiness, which is oft called a light or lamp in Scripture, and other authors.
Rejoiceth shineth with a pleasant and constant brightness and glory; for this is opposed to the putting out in the next clause. Rejoicing is here ascribed to the light, as it is to the sun, Psa 19:5 , both metaphorically, because they would rejoice in it if they were capable of any such passions; and metonymically, because they refresh and cheer men’ s spirits. So mountains and trees are said to rejoice, Psa 65:12 96:12 .
The lamp of the wicked shall be put out their felicity shall have a sudden and a dismal end.
Haydock -> Pro 13:9
Out. They are hated as well as their offspring. (Calmet)
Gill -> Pro 13:9
Gill: Pro 13:9 - -- The light of the righteous rejoiceth,.... The light of joy and gladness, which is sown for them, and arises to them; the light of spiritual knowledge ...
The light of the righteous rejoiceth,.... The light of joy and gladness, which is sown for them, and arises to them; the light of spiritual knowledge and experience they have; the light of sound doctrine; the light of good works, and a Gospel conversation; all this, as it is delightful to themselves and others, so it is increasing more and more to the perfect day, and it continues: so the Septuagint and Arabic versions, "light is always for the righteous"; especially it will be in the latter day, and particularly in the New Jerusalem state, when there will be no night, Rev 21:23;
but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out; the light of the righteous is like that of the sun, bright and pleasant; but the light of the wicked is like that of a lamp, lesser and not so agreeable, nor will it last; their prosperity is short lived, their joy is but for a moment; the pleasures of sin are but for a season; their candle soon goes out; it is put out in obscure darkness, and they themselves are reserved to blackness of darkness, Job 18:5; as prosperous and flourishing as the kingdom of antichrist has been or is, it will be full of darkness, Rev 16:12.

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MHCC -> Pro 13:9
MHCC: Pro 13:9 - --The light of the righteous is as that of the sun, which may be eclipsed and clouded, but will continue: the Spirit is their Light, he gives a fulness ...
Matthew Henry -> Pro 13:9
Matthew Henry: Pro 13:9 - -- Here is, 1. The comfort of good men flourishing and lasting: The light of the righteous rejoices, that is, it increases, and makes them glad. Even...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Pro 13:9
Keil-Delitzsch: Pro 13:9 - --
The three following proverbs in Pro 13:9-11 have at least this in common, that the two concluding words of each correspond with one another almost r...
Constable -> Pro 10:1--22:17; Pro 13:1-25
Constable: Pro 10:1--22:17 - --II. COUPLETS EXPRESSING WISDOM 10:1--22:16
Chapters 1-9, as we have seen, contain discourses that Solomon eviden...
