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Text -- Proverbs 16:3 (NET)

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16:3 Commit your works to the Lord, and your plans will be established.
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Wesley: Pro 16:3 - -- Refer all thy actions and concerns to God, as the end of them, and depend upon God's providence for success.

Refer all thy actions and concerns to God, as the end of them, and depend upon God's providence for success.

Wesley: Pro 16:3 - -- Thy designs shall be brought to an happy issue.

Thy designs shall be brought to an happy issue.

JFB: Pro 16:3 - -- (Compare Margin). Rely on God for success to your lawful purposes.

(Compare Margin). Rely on God for success to your lawful purposes.

Clarke: Pro 16:3 - -- Commit thy works unto the Lord - See that what thou doest is commanded; and then begin, continue, and end all in his name. And thy thoughts shall be...

Commit thy works unto the Lord - See that what thou doest is commanded; and then begin, continue, and end all in his name. And thy thoughts shall be established - these schemes or arrangements, though formed in the heart, are agreeable to the Divine will, and therefore shall be established. His thoughts - his meditations - are right; and he begins and ends his work in the Lord; and therefore all issues well.

TSK: Pro 16:3 - -- Commit : Heb. Roll thy works : Job 5:8; Psa 37:4, Psa 37:5, Psa 55:22; Mat 6:25-34; Luk 12:22; Phi 4:6; 1Pe 5:7 thy thoughts : Job 22:28; Isa 7:5-7

Commit : Heb. Roll

thy works : Job 5:8; Psa 37:4, Psa 37:5, Psa 55:22; Mat 6:25-34; Luk 12:22; Phi 4:6; 1Pe 5:7

thy thoughts : Job 22:28; Isa 7:5-7

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Barnes: Pro 16:3 - -- Commit - literally, as in the margin, as a man transfers a burden from his own back to one stronger and better able to bear it. Compare the mar...

Commit - literally, as in the margin, as a man transfers a burden from his own back to one stronger and better able to bear it. Compare the margin reference.

Thy thoughts - i. e., The plans or counsels out of which the works spring.

Poole: Pro 16:3 - -- Commit thy works unto the Lord Heb. Roll , &c., as a man rolls a burden to another, which is too heavy for himself, imploring his help. Refer all th...

Commit thy works unto the Lord Heb. Roll , &c., as a man rolls a burden to another, which is too heavy for himself, imploring his help. Refer all thy actions and concerns to God, and to his glory, as the end of them, and in the discharge of thy own duty depend upon God’ s providence for assistance and success.

Thy thoughts shall be established thy honest desires and designs shall be brought to a happy issue one way or other.

Haydock: Pro 16:3 - -- Open. Hebrew, "roll on," and refer all to God's glory. (Menochius) (Psalm xxxvi. 5.)

Open. Hebrew, "roll on," and refer all to God's glory. (Menochius) (Psalm xxxvi. 5.)

Gill: Pro 16:3 - -- Commit thy works unto the Lord,.... Natural, civil, or religious; seek to him for strength and assistance in all, and leave the success of all with hi...

Commit thy works unto the Lord,.... Natural, civil, or religious; seek to him for strength and assistance in all, and leave the success of all with him: or "roll thy works on" or "unto the Lord" b; devolve all upon him, cast all care upon him and his providence for supply, support, and sustenance in life; and commit the business of the salvation of thy soul, and the important affairs of it, wholly to him, who is able, willing, and faithful, to keep what is committed to him; and, having so done, may sit down easy and satisfied, as one that is rid of a burden by casting it on another, better able to bear it, or more equal to the work committed to him: the Targum is, "reveal thy works to God"; and so the Syriac and Vulgate Latin versions, "reveal thy works to the Lord"; thy case, condition, and circumstances; thy wants and necessities; seek and ask for a supply of him, make known thy requests to him; for though he is not ignorant of the affairs of his people, yet he will be sought unto to do the things for them he intends to do, and they stand in need of;

and thy thoughts shall be established; when a man has, by faith and in prayer, committed himself, his case, his ways and works, to the Lord, his mind is made easy, his thoughts are composed and settled, and he quietly waits the issues of things; he says, the will of the Lord be done; he knows that he causes all things to work together for good; and whatever is for his good and God's glory shall be brought to pass; and this makes him calm, sedate, and easy; and he is in a fair way of having his designs, desires, and endeavours accomplished; see Psa 37:5.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Pro 16:3 The syntax of the second clause shows that there is subordination: The vav on וְיִכֹּנוּ (...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

MHCC: Pro 16:3 - --Roll the burden of thy care upon God, and leave it with him, by faith and dependence on him.

Matthew Henry: Pro 16:3 - -- Note, 1. It is a very desirable thing to have our thoughts established, and not tossed, and put into a hurry, by disquieting cares and fears, - to...

Keil-Delitzsch: Pro 16:3 - -- 3 Roll on Jahve thy works, So thy thoughts shall prosper. The proverbs Pro 16:1-3 are wanting in the lxx; their absence is compensated for by thre...

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...

Constable: Pro 16:1-33 - --1. Trusting God ch. 16 There is a shift in emphasis in Solomon's anthology here. Pleasing God (cf. Col. 1:10; 1 John 3:22) becomes a greater factor in...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Proverbs (Book Introduction) THE NATURE AND USE OF PROVERBS.--A proverb is a pithy sentence, concisely expressing some well-established truth susceptible of various illustrations ...

TSK: Proverbs (Book Introduction) The wisdom of all ages, from the highest antiquity, has chosen to compress and communicate its lessons in short, compendious sentences, and in poetic ...

TSK: Proverbs 16 (Chapter Introduction) Overview

Poole: Proverbs 16 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 16 Men can neither think nor speak wisely and well of themselves, or without Divine assistance. Or, as many others, both ancient and moder...

MHCC: Proverbs (Book Introduction) The subject of this book may be thus stated by an enlargement on the opening verses. 1. The Proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel. 2. ...

Matthew Henry: Proverbs (Book Introduction) An Exposition, With Practical Observations, of The Proverbs We have now before us, I. A new author, or penman rather, or pen (if you will) made use o...

Constable: Proverbs (Book Introduction) Introduction Title The title of this book in the Hebrew Bible is "The Proverbs of Solo...

Constable: Proverbs (Outline) Outline I. Discourses on wisdom chs. 1-9 A. Introduction to the book 1:1-7 ...

Constable: Proverbs Proverbs Bibliography Aitken, Kenneth T. Proverbs. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1986. Alden...

Haydock: Proverbs (Book Introduction) THE BOOK OF PROVERBS. INTRODUCTION. This book is so called, because it consists of wise and weighty sentences, regulating the morals of men; and...

Gill: Proverbs (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO PROVERBS This book is called, in some printed Hebrew copies, "Sepher Mishle", the Book of Proverbs; the title of it in the Vulgate ...

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