
Text -- Proverbs 10:21 (NET)




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By their wise discourses and counsels.

They have not wisdom to preserve themselves, much less to feed others.
JFB -> Pro 10:21
TSK -> Pro 10:21
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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Barnes -> Pro 10:21
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
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
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
Gill -> Pro 10:21
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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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
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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TSK Synopsis -> Pro 10:1-32
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
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
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
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; Pro 10:15-32
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...
