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Text -- Proverbs 15:14-33 (NET)

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15:14 The discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on folly. 15:15 All the days of the afflicted are bad, but one with a cheerful heart has a continual feast. 15:16 Better is little with the fear of the Lord than great wealth and turmoil with it. 15:17 Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox where there is hatred. 15:18 A quick-tempered person stirs up dissension, but one who is slow to anger calms a quarrel. 15:19 The way of the sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is like a highway. 15:20 A wise child brings joy to his father, but a foolish person despises his mother. 15:21 Folly is a joy to one who lacks sense, but one who has understanding follows an upright course. 15:22 Plans fail when there is no counsel, but with abundant advisers they are established. 15:23 A person has joy in giving an appropriate answer, and a word at the right time– how good it is! 15:24 The path of life is upward for the wise person, to keep him from going downward to Sheol. 15:25 The Lord tears down the house of the proud, but he maintains the boundaries of the widow. 15:26 The Lord abhors the plans of the wicked, but pleasant words are pure. 15:27 The one who is greedy for gain troubles his household, but whoever hates bribes will live. 15:28 The heart of the righteous considers how to answer, but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things. 15:29 The Lord is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous. 15:30 A bright look brings joy to the heart, and good news gives health to the body. 15:31 The person who hears the reproof that leads to life is at home among the wise. 15:32 The one who refuses correction despises himself, but whoever hears reproof acquires understanding. 15:33 The fear of the Lord provides wise instruction, and before honor comes humility.
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 · Sheol the place of the dead


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Wisdom | Speaking | Pride | Hedge | WAY | Mother | Widow | Stall | Reproof | Humility | Food | Riches | Fear of God | Contentment | Fool | Heart | Greed | Knowledge | Laziness | Good News | more
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NET Notes: Pro 15:14 The idea expressed in the second colon does not make a strong parallelism with the first with its emphasis on seeking knowledge. Its poetic image of f...

NET Notes: Pro 15:15 The image of a continual feast signifies the enjoyment of what life offers (cf. TEV “happy people…enjoy life”). The figure is a hypo...

NET Notes: Pro 15:16 Not all wealth has turmoil with it. But the proverb is focusing on the comparison of two things – fear of the Lord with little and wealth with t...

NET Notes: Pro 15:17 Again the saying concerns troublesome wealth: Loving relationships with simple food are better than a feast where there is hatred. The ideal, of cours...

NET Notes: Pro 15:18 The fact that רִיב (riv) is used for “quarrel; strife” strongly implies that the setting is the courtroom or other...

NET Notes: Pro 15:19 The contrast to the “thorny way” is the highway, the Hebrew word signifying a well built-up road (סָלַל, sal...

NET Notes: Pro 15:20 The proverb is almost the same as 10:1, except that “despises” replaces “grief.” This adds the idea of the callousness of the ...

NET Notes: Pro 15:21 The Hebrew construction is יְיַשֶּׁר־לָכֶת (yÿyasher-la...

NET Notes: Pro 15:22 The proverb says essentially the same thing as 11:14, but differently.

NET Notes: Pro 15:23 Heb “in its season.” To say the right thing at the right time is useful; to say the right thing at the wrong time is counterproductive.

NET Notes: Pro 15:24 Heb “to turn from Sheol downward”; cf. NAB “the nether world below.”

NET Notes: Pro 15:25 The Lord administers justice in his time. The Lord champions the widow, the orphan, the poor, and the needy. These people were often the prey of the p...

NET Notes: Pro 15:26 The MT simply has “but pleasant words are pure” (Heb “but pure [plural] are the words of pleasantness”). Some English versions...

NET Notes: Pro 15:27 Heb “gifts” (so KJV). Gifts can be harmless enough, but in a setting like this the idea is that the “gift” is in exchange for ...

NET Notes: Pro 15:28 The form is plural. What they say (the “mouth” is a metonymy of cause) is any range of harmful things.

NET Notes: Pro 15:29 God’s response to prayer is determined by the righteousness of the one who prays. A prayer of repentance by the wicked is an exception, for by i...

NET Notes: Pro 15:30 Heb “makes fat the bones”; NAB “invigorates the bones.” The word “bones” is a metonymy of subject, the bones repre...

NET Notes: Pro 15:31 The proverb is one full sentence; it affirms that a teachable person is among the wise.

NET Notes: Pro 15:32 The Hebrew text reads קוֹנֶה לֵּב (qoneh lev), the participle of קָנ...

NET Notes: Pro 15:33 Heb “[is] humility” (so KJV). The second clause is a parallel idea in that it stresses how one thing leads to another – humility to ...

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