Proverbs 24
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Chapter 24
| 24:2 | Destruction - How they may oppress and destroy others. |
| 24:3 | Through wisdom - There is no need that thou shouldest raise thy family by ruining others, which thou mayest more effectually do by wisdom. |
| 24:4 | By knowledge - Which in scripture phrase includes the love and practice of what we know. |
| 24:5 | Is strong - Is courageous and resolute, and able by wisdom to do greater things than others can accomplish by strength. |
| 24:6 | Thy war - War is better managed by wisdom than by strength. |
| 24:7 | A fool - For a wicked man, whose sins enfeeble his mind, and make it incapable of wisdom. Openeth not - He knows not how to speak acceptably, and profitably in the publick assembly. |
| 24:8 | Shall be called - Though he cover his wicked devices with fair pretences, he shall be branded with that infamy which is due to him. |
| 24:9 | The thought - The very inward thought or contrivance of evil, is a sin in God's sight. |
| 24:11 | Deliver - When it is in thy power. Drawn - By the violence of lawless men. |
| 24:12 | Consider - That this is only a frivolous excuse. |
| 24:13 | Eat - 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. |
| 24:14 | A reward - It is not only sweet for the present, but brings a sure and everlasting reward. |
| 24:16 | Falleth - Into calamities, of which he evidently speaks both in the foregoing verse, and in the following branch of this verse.Fall - Frequently into irrecoverable destruction. |
| 24:17 | Falleth - Into mischief. |
| 24:18 | From him - Understand, upon thee, which is implied in the Hebrew phrase. |
| 24:20 | No reward - All his happiness shall quickly and eternally perish.The candle - All their comfort and glory shall cease. |
| 24:21 | To change - That are unstable in their obedience to God or to the king. |
| 24:22 | Who knoweth - Who can conceive how sore and sudden will be the ruin of them that fear not God, and the king. |
| 24:23 | These - The counsels following, to the end of the chapter, no less than those hitherto mentioned, are worthy of their consideration. |
| 24:25 | Rebuke - That publickly and judicially rebuke and condemn the wicked. Delight - The peace of a good conscience. |
| 24:26 | Shall kiss - Shall respect him. A right answer - That speaks pertinently and plainly, and truly. |
| 24:32 | Received - I learned wisdom by his folly. |