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Text -- Proverbs 10:21 (NET)

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10:21 The teaching of the righteous feeds many, but fools die for lack of wisdom.
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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

Wesley: Pro 10:21 - -- By their wise discourses and counsels.

By their wise discourses and counsels.

Wesley: Pro 10:21 - -- They have not wisdom to preserve themselves, much less to feed others.

They have not wisdom to preserve themselves, much less to feed others.

JFB: Pro 10:21 - -- Fools not only fail to benefit others, as do the righteous, but procure their own ruin (compare Pro 10:11, Pro 10:17; Hos 4:6).

Fools not only fail to benefit others, as do the righteous, but procure their own ruin (compare Pro 10:11, Pro 10:17; Hos 4:6).

TSK: Pro 10:21 - -- feed : Pro 12:18, Pro 15:4; Job 4:3, Job 4:4, Job 23:12, Job 29:21, Job 29:22; Psa 37:30; Ecc 12:9, Ecc 12:10; Jer 3:15, Jer 15:16; Joh 21:15-17; 1Pe ...

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Barnes: Pro 10:21 - -- Feed - The Hebrew word, like ποιμαίνειν poimainein , includes the idea of guiding as well as nourishing; doing a shepherd...

Feed - The Hebrew word, like ποιμαίνειν poimainein , includes the idea of guiding as well as nourishing; doing a shepherd’ s work in both.

For want of wisdom - Some prefer, through him who wanteth understanding, referring to a person. The wise guides others to safety; the fool, empty-headed, and empty-hearted, involves others like himself in destruction.

Poole: Pro 10:21 - -- Feed many by their wise and pious discourses, counsels, and comforts, which are so many evidences of their wisdom. Die for want of wisdom they have...

Feed many by their wise and pious discourses, counsels, and comforts, which are so many evidences of their wisdom.

Die for want of wisdom they have not wisdom to feed or preserve themselves, much less to feed others.

Haydock: Pro 10:21 - -- Understanding. Literally, "hear." (Haydock) (Ver. 13.)

Understanding. Literally, "hear." (Haydock) (Ver. 13.)

Gill: Pro 10:21 - -- The lips of the righteous feed many,.... Not their bodies; words are but wind, and will not feed; it is not enough to say to the distressed, "be ye wa...

The lips of the righteous feed many,.... Not their bodies; words are but wind, and will not feed; it is not enough to say to the distressed, "be ye warmed and filled", and give nothing; unless this can be understood of obtaining food for others by their prayers, as Jarchi interprets it: but the souls of many; these the righteous feed, by communicating the spiritual knowledge and understanding of divine things they are partakers of; by setting before them the bread of life, the honey and milk of the Gospel, they have under their tongue; and by the good counsel and advice, comforts and admonitions, they give them; see Jer 3:15;

but fools die for want of wisdom: not a corporeal death, which is common to men of every rank and quality; wise men die even as fools; but they continue under the power of a spiritual death, for want of enlightening and quickening grace, and so die an eternal death: not for want of natural wisdom, which they may have a greater share of than those who live spiritually and eternally; but for want of spiritual wisdom and knowledge; the knowledge of Christ, and the way of life and salvation by him, and the knowledge of God in Christ; and not always for the want of the means of such wisdom and knowledge; as the Scriptures, which are able to make a man wise unto salvation; and the Gospel, which is the wisdom of God in a mystery; but through the neglect and contempt of them: though sometimes men perish through want of the means of knowledge, and the neglect of those who should instruct them, Hos 4:6.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Pro 10:21 Heb “heart.” The term לֵב (lev, “heart”) functions as a metonymy of association for wisdom and knowledge (BD...

Geneva Bible: Pro 10:21 The lips of the righteous ( i ) feed many: but fools die for lack of wisdom. ( i ) For they speak truth and edify many by exhortations, admonition an...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Pro 10:1-32 - --1 From this chapter to the five and twentieth are sundry observations of moral virtues, and their contrary vices.

MHCC: Pro 10:20-21 - --The tongue of the just is sincere, freed from the dross of guile and evil design. Pious discourse is spiritual food to the needy. Fools die for want o...

Matthew Henry: Pro 10:20-21 - -- We are here taught how to value men, not by their wealth and preferment in the world, but by their virtue. I. Good men are good for something. Thoug...

Keil-Delitzsch: Pro 10:21 - -- 21 The lips of the righteous edify many; But fools die through want of understanding. The lxx translate 21a: the lips of the righteous ἐπί...

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 10:15-32 - --2. Things of true value 10:15-32 10:15 Even though wealth is not most important, it still can result in security or poverty, and therefore people shou...

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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 10 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Pro 10:1, From this chapter to the Pro 5:1 and Pro 20:1 are sundry observations of moral virtues, and their contrary vices.

Poole: Proverbs 10 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 10 From this chapter to the five and twentieth, are sundry observations of moral virtues, and their contrary vices, with excellent rules fo...

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. ...

MHCC: Proverbs 10 (Chapter Introduction) Through the whole of the Proverbs, we are to look for somewhat beyond the first sense the passage may imply, and this we shall find to be Christ. He i...

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...

Matthew Henry: Proverbs 10 (Chapter Introduction) Hitherto we have been in the porch or preface to the proverbs, here they begin. They are short but weighty sentences; most of them are distichs, tw...

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 ...

Gill: Proverbs 10 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO PROVERBS 10 From this chapter to the "twenty fifth" are various proverbial sentences, without any very apparent connection or coher...

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