
Text -- Proverbs 17:7 (NET)




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Wesley -> Pro 17:7
Discourse of high and excellent things.
JFB -> Pro 17:7
JFB: Pro 17:7 - -- (Compare Margin). Such language as ill suits a fool, as lying (ought to suit) a prince (Pro 16:12-13).
(Compare Margin). Such language as ill suits a fool, as lying (ought to suit) a prince (Pro 16:12-13).
Clarke -> Pro 17:7
Clarke: Pro 17:7 - -- Excellent speech becometh not a fool - This proverb is suitable to those who affect, in public speaking, fine language, which neither comports with ...
Excellent speech becometh not a fool - This proverb is suitable to those who affect, in public speaking, fine language, which neither comports with their ordinary conversation, nor with their education. Often fine words are injudiciously brought in, and are as unbecoming and irrelevant as a cart wheel among clockwork.
TSK -> Pro 17:7
TSK: Pro 17:7 - -- Excellent speech : Heb. A lip of excellency, Pro 26:7; Psa 50:16, Psa 50:17; Mat 7:5
much : Pro 16:10-13, Pro 29:12; 2Sa 23:3; Job 34:12; Psa 101:3-5
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Excellent speech : Heb. A lip of excellency, Pro 26:7; Psa 50:16, Psa 50:17; Mat 7:5
much : Pro 16:10-13, Pro 29:12; 2Sa 23:3; Job 34:12; Psa 101:3-5
lying lips : Heb. a lip of lying, Pro 12:19

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Barnes -> Pro 17:7
Barnes: Pro 17:7 - -- The margin renderings are more literal and give greater emphasis. What is pointed out is not the unfitness of lying lips for the princely-hearted, b...
The margin renderings are more literal and give greater emphasis. What is pointed out is not the unfitness of lying lips for the princely-hearted, but the necessity of harmony, in each case, between character and speech.
Poole -> Pro 17:7
Poole: Pro 17:7 - -- Excellent speech either,
1. Discourse of high and excellent things far above his capacity. Or,
2. Lofty or eloquent speech, which fools oft affect,...
Excellent speech either,
1. Discourse of high and excellent things far above his capacity. Or,
2. Lofty or eloquent speech, which fools oft affect, Or,
3. Virtuous and godly discourse.
A fool either properly so called; or, as this word is most commonly used in this book, a wicked man, whose actions give the lie to his expressions.
Haydock -> Pro 17:7
Eloquent. Septuagint, "faithful." They cannot be expected from them.
Gill -> Pro 17:7
Gill: Pro 17:7 - -- Excellent speech becometh not a fool,.... A wicked man. Eloquence, or a sublime grand way of speaking, a copiousness and fluency of expression, become...
Excellent speech becometh not a fool,.... A wicked man. Eloquence, or a sublime grand way of speaking, a copiousness and fluency of expression, become not such; because hereby he may be capable of doing more mischief; or such a style is unsuitable to the subject of his discourse, which is nothing but folly and wickedness. The Gospel is excellent speech, sound speech, that cannot be condemned; it treats of excellent things; concerning the person, office, and grace of Christ, and salvation by him; and very unfit is a wicked man to take it into his mouth, talk of it, and declare it;
much less do lying lips a prince; they rather become a fool, as excellent speech does a prince; who neither should speak lies himself, nor encourage, but abhor them in others. The Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions, render it, "a just man": but the word more property signifies a liberal man, as it is rendered in Isa 32:8; where it stands opposed to a churl or covetous man: and some Jewish f writers think by the "fool" is meant such an one to whom a "lip of abundance" g, as it may be rendered, is very unsuitable; or to talk of his abundance, when he makes no good use of what he has for himself or others; and so, on the other hand, it is very disagreeable to the character of an ingenuous and liberal man to promise and not perform, and never intended it. It is true of such who are made a "willing" people in the day of Christ's power, Psa 110:3; where the same word is used as here; of his volunteers; that to speak lies one to another very ill becomes them; or to receive, or to speak, or profess false doctrines; for no lie is of the truth.

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MHCC -> Pro 17:7
MHCC: Pro 17:7 - --A fool, in Solomon's Proverbs, signifies a wicked man, whom excellent speech does not become, because his conversation contradicts it.
Matthew Henry -> Pro 17:7
Matthew Henry: Pro 17:7 - -- Two things are here represented as very absurd: 1. That men of no repute should be dictators. What can be more unbecoming than for fools, who are kn...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Pro 17:7-10
Keil-Delitzsch: Pro 17:7-10 - --
The proverbs following, Pro 17:7-10, appear to be united acrostically by the succession of the letters ש ( שׂ , שׁ ) and ת .
Pro 17:7
7 It ...
Constable -> Pro 10:1--22:17; Pro 17:1-28
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...
