
Text -- Proverbs 24:13 (NET)




Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics



collapse allCommentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)
Wesley -> Pro 24:13
Wesley: Pro 24:13 - -- This is not a command, but a concession, and is only here expressed to illustrate the following verse. Honey in those parts was an usual food.
This is not a command, but a concession, and is only here expressed to illustrate the following verse. Honey in those parts was an usual food.
JFB -> Pro 24:13-14
JFB: Pro 24:13-14 - -- As delicious food whets the appetite, so should the rewards of wisdom excite us to seek it.
As delicious food whets the appetite, so should the rewards of wisdom excite us to seek it.
Clarke -> Pro 24:13
Clarke: Pro 24:13 - -- And the honey-comb - I have often had occasion to remark how much finer the flavour of honey is in the honey-comb than it is after it has been expre...
And the honey-comb - I have often had occasion to remark how much finer the flavour of honey is in the honey-comb than it is after it has been expressed from it, and exposed to the action of the air. But it has been asserted that the honey-comb is never eaten; it must be by those who have no acquaintance with the apiary. I have seen the comb with its contained honey eaten frequently, and of it I have repeatedly partaken. And that our Lord ate it, is evident from Luk 24:42. Nor can any man who has not eaten it in this way feel the full force of the allusions to the honey-comb and its sweetness in several parts of the sacred writings. See 1Sa 14:27; Psa 19:10; Pro 5:3; Pro 16:24; Pro 27:7; Son 4:11; Son 5:1; and the place before us.
TSK -> Pro 24:13

collapse allCommentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)
Barnes -> Pro 24:13
Barnes: Pro 24:13 - -- Honey entered largely into the diet of Hebrew children Isa 7:15, so that it was as natural an emblem for the purest and simplest wisdom, as the "sin...
Poole -> Pro 24:13
Poole: Pro 24:13 - -- This is not a command, but a concession, and is here expressed only to illustrate the following verse. Honey in those parts was excellent, and a usu...
Haydock -> Pro 24:13
Honey. Of wisdom, which is most delicious. (Menochius)
Gill -> Pro 24:13
Gill: Pro 24:13 - -- My son, eat thou honey, because it is good,.... It is good for food; there was plenty of it in Palestine, and it was eaten for food, not only by chil...
My son, eat thou honey, because it is good,.... It is good for food; there was plenty of it in Palestine, and it was eaten for food, not only by children, but grown persons; and was very nourishing, strengthening, and refreshing to them, as Samson, Jonathan, John the Baptist, and others; and is good for medicine, is healthful and salutary, and useful in many diseases: it is said m to conduce much to prolong life and preserve from diseases; it has been observed that those who have much used it have lived to a great age;
and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste; because it is so, as all honey is, and especially that which is immediately squeezed or drops from the honeycomb; this is said not so much on account of honey, and the eating of that, as for what follows concerning the knowledge of wisdom, which is comparable to it for pleasure and profit; see Pro 16:24 n.

expand allCommentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes
NET Notes -> Pro 24:13
NET Notes: Pro 24:13 The twenty-sixth saying teaches that one should develop wisdom because it has a profitable future. The saying draws on the image of honey; its health-...
Geneva Bible -> Pro 24:13
Geneva Bible: Pro 24:13 My son, eat thou ( d ) honey, because [it is] good; and the honeycomb, [which is] sweet to thy taste:
( d ) As honey is sweet and pleasant to the tas...

expand allCommentary -- Verse Range Notes
MHCC -> Pro 24:13-14
MHCC: Pro 24:13-14 - --We are quickened to the study of wisdom by considering both the pleasure and the profit of it. All men relish things that are sweet to the palate; but...
Matthew Henry -> Pro 24:13-14
Matthew Henry: Pro 24:13-14 - -- We are here quickened to the study of wisdom by the consideration both of the pleasure and the profit of it. 1. It will be very pleasant. We eat ho...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Pro 24:13-14
Keil-Delitzsch: Pro 24:13-14 - --
The proverb now following stands in no obvious relation with the preceding. But in both a commencement is made with two lines, which contain, in the...
Constable: Pro 22:17--25:1 - --III. WISE SAYINGS 22:17--24:34
A third major section of the Book of Proverbs begins with 22:17. This is clear fr...

Constable: Pro 22:17--24:23 - --A. Thirty Sayings of the Wise 22:17-24:22
Many scholars have called attention to the similarities betwee...
