
Text -- Proverbs 14:9 (NET)




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Wesley -> Pro 14:9
They find favour both with God and men.
Or, "Sin deludes fools."

That is, of God, instead of the punishment of sin.
Clarke -> Pro 14:9
Clarke: Pro 14:9 - -- Fools make a mock at sin - And only fools would do so. But he that makes a sport of sinning, will find it no sport to suffer the vengeance of an ete...
Fools make a mock at sin - And only fools would do so. But he that makes a sport of sinning, will find it no sport to suffer the vengeance of an eternal fire. Some learned men by their criticisms have brought this verse into embarrassments, out of which they were not able to extricate it. I believe we shall not come much nearer the sense than our present version does.
TSK -> Pro 14:9
TSK: Pro 14:9 - -- Fools : Pro 1:22, Pro 10:23, Pro 26:18, Pro 26:19, Pro 30:20; Job 15:16, Job 34:7-9; Jud 1:18
among : Pro 3:4, Pro 8:35, Pro 12:2, Pro 13:15; Rom 14:1...

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Barnes -> Pro 14:9
Barnes: Pro 14:9 - -- Fools make a mock - The verb in the Heb. is singular, the noun plural. The King James Version assumes that the number is altered to individuali...
Fools make a mock - The verb in the Heb. is singular, the noun plural. The King James Version assumes that the number is altered to individualize the application of the maxim. Others translate it: "Sin mocks the fools who are its victims,"i. e., disappoints and ruins them; or, "A sin-offering does but mock the worshippers when they are willfully wicked:"they expect to gain God’ s favor, and do not gain it. So taken it becomes parallel to Pro 15:8; Pro 21:7.
Poole -> Pro 14:9
Poole: Pro 14:9 - -- Fools wicked men, as appears from their opposition to the righteous in the next clause,
make a mock at sin please and support themselves with their...
Fools wicked men, as appears from their opposition to the righteous in the next clause,
make a mock at sin please and support themselves with their own and other men’ s sins, which is a high offence and provocation to God and men. Or, as others render it, excuse or cover sin ; sin against God or men, and then justify or extenuate their sins, which is to double the injury. Possibly this clause may be thus rendered, Sin deludes or makes a mock of fools , or sinners, i.e. exposeth them to shame and contempt, which is fitly opposed to favour in the next clause. And thus two ancient and learned interpreters, Aquila and Theodotion, render it. And this suits exactly with the Hebrew words, whereas in the other translation the noun and verb governed by it are of diverse numbers, which, though sometimes it be allowed, yet is not to be supposed without necessity. But this I submit to the learned and judicious.
Among the righteous who are so far from making a mock of sin, or excusing it, that they do not allow themselves to commit it,
there is favour they find favour both with God and men, as this very word thus generally expressed is used, Pro 11:27 , because they make conscience of ordering their lives so that they offend neither God nor men; or if they offend either, they heartily repent of it; so far are they from excusing it, or pleasing themselves with it. Or, there is good will , as the word properly and usually is taken; they have a real love, and are ready to do all offices of kindness one to another, and therefore neither sin against others, nor rejoice in the sins of others.
Haydock -> Pro 14:9
Haydock: Pro 14:9 - -- Sin. Chap. x. 23. Hebrew, "excuse sin," (Calmet) or "mock at sin," (Haydock) committed by others. (Menochius) ---
Grace, or good-will. They are...
Sin. Chap. x. 23. Hebrew, "excuse sin," (Calmet) or "mock at sin," (Haydock) committed by others. (Menochius) ---
Grace, or good-will. They are agreeable to all. (Calmet)
Gill -> Pro 14:9
Gill: Pro 14:9 - -- Fools make a mock at sin,.... At sinful actions, their own or others; they make light of them, a jest of them, call evil good, and good evil; take ple...
Fools make a mock at sin,.... At sinful actions, their own or others; they make light of them, a jest of them, call evil good, and good evil; take pleasure in doing them themselves, and in those that do them; yea, sport themselves with the mischief that arises from them unto others; they make a mock at reproofs for them, and scoff at those that instruct and rebuke them; and laugh at a future state, and an awful judgment they are warned of, and in a scoffing manner say, "where is the promise of his coming?" Some, as Aben Ezra observes, render it "a sin offering"; and interpret it of the sin offerings and sacrifices under the law, as derided by wicked men; but may be better applied to the sin offering or sacrifice of Christ, who made his soul an offering for sin, to make satisfaction and atonement for the sins of his people; this is mocked at by false teachers, who deny it; and is exposed to derision and contempt by the Papists, by their bloodless sacrifice of the mass, and by their merits and works of supererogation, which they prefer to the sacrifice and satisfaction of Christ. The words may be rendered, "sin makes a mock of fools" h; it deceives them, it promises them pleasure, or profit, or honour, but gives them neither, but all the reverse;
but among the righteous there is favour: they enjoy the favour of God and man; or "there is good will" i, good will towards men; they are so far from making a mock at sin, and taking delight in the mischief that comes by it to others, that they are willing to do all good offices unto men, and by love to serve their friends and neighbours: or "there is acceptance" k; they are accepted with God upon the account of the sin offering, sacrifice, and satisfaction of Christ, which fools mock and despise.

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NET Notes: Pro 14:9 The word רָצוֹן (ratson) means “favor; acceptance; pleasing.” It usually means what is pleasing or acc...
Geneva Bible -> Pro 14:9
Geneva Bible: Pro 14:9 Fools make a mock at ( f ) sin: but among the righteous [there is] favour.
( f ) Does not know the grievousness of it, nor God's judgments against th...

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Maclaren -> Pro 14:9
Maclaren: Pro 14:9 - --Sin The Mocker
Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.'--Proverbs 14:9.
THE wisdom of this Book of Proverbs is not simply ...
MHCC -> Pro 14:9
MHCC: Pro 14:9 - --Foolish and profane men consider sin a mere trifle, to be made light of rather than mourned over. Fools mock at the sin-offering; but those that make ...
Matthew Henry -> Pro 14:9
Matthew Henry: Pro 14:9 - -- See here, 1. How wicked people are hardened in their wickedness: they make a mock at sin. They make a laughing matter of the sins of others, makin...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Pro 14:9
Keil-Delitzsch: Pro 14:9 - --
9 The sacrificial offering of fools mocketh;
But between upright men there is good understanding
We may not give to the Hiph . הליץ any mean...
Constable -> Pro 10:1--22:17; Pro 14:1--15:33
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...
