Proverbs

A soft answer (verse 1) “A soft answer turneth away wrath; but grievous words stir up anger.” We greatly need an instrument that is capable of...

The place of refuge (verse 26) “In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence; and his children shall have a place of refuge.” Fear is...

Becoming rich by poverty (verse 7) “There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great...

Love of instruction vs. hatred of reproof (verse 1) “Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.”...

The proud and the lowly (verse 2) “When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.” Pride consists in an immoderate...

After all the personifications of true Wisdom, King Solomon proceeds to give us advice in short but pithy lines of instruction, which are...

Christ and sin are rivals for the souls of human beings! And here we are told how they both court attention from us, in order to have the...

This chapter opens with the cry of Wisdom; and both the earnestness of the subject, and the earnestness with which it is enforced, demand our...

This chapter is opened by a general preface, in the first five verses, which is given to prepare the mind for the subject that is to follow. We...

If we live according to the directions of the Word of God, we shall find it to be very profitable to us, even in this present world. The Lord...

In this chapter, we have an exhortation to the study of Wisdom, which runs in a similar strain to the last chapter. The blessed effects of that...

When the things of God are to be taught, precept must be upon precept, and line upon line – not only because the things themselves are of great...

This chapter is one of the most excellent in the whole Book – both for reasons to persuade us to be religious, and also for directions therein....

Wisdom continues her sermon throughout this chapter, which she had begun in the former one. In this part of her discourse, blessings are...

The subject of this Book of Proverbs may be stated by an enlargement upon the opening verses of the first chapter. The human penman of these...