Proverbs
Published on 1. January 2015
192 pages
978-1-78359-245-6 (ISBN)
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Proverbs - a book full of wisdom, and yet a book demanding all one's wisdom to understand.
Derek Kidner has not only provided a running commentary on the whole of Proverbs, but has also included two helpful study aids: a set of subject guides that brings together teaching scattered throughout the book, and a short concordance that helps to locate lost sayings (in territory notoriously hard to search) and encourages further subject studies. In short, this volume is a wise person's guide to wisdom.
Derek Kidner has not only provided a running commentary on the whole of Proverbs, but has also included two helpful study aids: a set of subject guides that brings together teaching scattered throughout the book, and a short concordance that helps to locate lost sayings (in territory notoriously hard to search) and encourages further subject studies. In short, this volume is a wise person's guide to wisdom.
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Nottingham
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978-1-78359-245-6 (9781783592456)
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Derek Kidner (1913-2008) was warden of Tyndale House, Cambridge. He wrote several volumes in the Tyndale Old Testament Commentary series, including those on Genesis, Ezra and Nehemiah, Psalms and Proverbs.
Content
- Intro
- Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries
- Proverbs
- Contents
- General preface
- Author's Preface
- Chief Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. The book of Proverbs and the wisdom of Israel
- 2. Wisdom in the ancient world
- 3. The structure, authorship, date and text of Proverbs
- a. The structure and authorship
- b. The date
- c. The text
- Subject-Studies
- God and man 1
- Wisdom
- 1. The many facets of wisdom
- 2. The attainment of wisdom
- 3. The pre-eminence of wisdom
- The fool
- 1. The simple
- 2. The fool
- 3. The scoffer
- The sluggard
- 1. The sluggard's character
- 2. The sluggard's lesson
- The friend
- 1. Friends and neighbours
- a. The good neighbour
- b. The good friend
- 2. The vulnerability of friendship
- Words
- 1. The power of words
- 2. The weakness of words
- 3. Words at their best
- a. The marks of them
- b. The making of them
- The family
- 1. Husband and wife
- 2. Parents and children
- 3. Brothers
- 4. The family in general
- Life and death
- 1. Life
- a. Material and social
- b. Personal or psychological
- c. Moral and spiritual
- 2. Death
- Analysis
- Title, introduction and motto (1:1-7)
- A father's praise of wisdom (1:8-9:18)
- Proverbs of Solomon (10:1-22:16)
- Words of wise men (22:17-24:22)
- Further words of wise men (24:23-34)
- Further proverbs of Solomon (Hezekiah's collection) (25:1-29:27)
- Words of Agur (30:1-33)
- Words of King Lemuel (31:1-9)
- An alphabet of wifely excellence (31:10-31)
- Commentary
- Title, Introduction And Motto (1:1-7)
- 1:1. The title
- 1:2-6. The introduction: the benefits of the book
- 1:7. The motto
- 1. A Father's Praise Of Wisdom (1:8-9:18)
- 1:8-19. 'If sinners entice thee .'
- 1:20-33. Wisdom's impassioned appeal
- 2:1-22. Wisdom as treasure and safeguard
- 3:1-35. The wholehearted disciple
- 4:1-27. The lifelong pilgrimage
- 5:1-23. Wisdom about marriage
- 6:1-35. Pitfalls for the unwary
- 7:1-27. Simpleton and seductress
- 8:1-36. Wisdom's apologia
- 9:1-18. The rival feasts
- 2. Proverbs of Solomon (10:1-22:16)
- 10:1. '. Bound up in the lad's life'
- 10:2, 3. Righteousness is the best security
- 10:4, 5. Hard work-its material and moral aspects
- 10:6, 7. Goodness brings lasting blessing
- 10:8. The obedient and the opinionated
- 10:9. Nothing to hide, nothing to fear
- 10:10. Mischief sooner made than mended
- 10:11. Sweet water and bitter
- 10:12. Troublemaker-peacemaker
- 10:13. Man-God's mouthpiece or God's mule
- 10:14. Proper reticence
- 10:15. Don't despise money
- 10:16. Earnings-their use and abuse
- 10:17. Stay teachable, you stay progressive
- 10:18. The hater's dilemma
- 10:19-21. Words, good and bad
- 10:22. Wealth unspoilt
- 10:23. Taste-depraved or sound
- 10:24, 25. The insecurity of the wicked
- 10:26. The exasperating sluggard
- 10:27-30. Massive certainty
- 10:31, 32. The fruit of the lips
- 11:1. Short weight
- 11:2. Pride pricked
- 11:3-9. Righteousness sees a man through
- 11:10, 11. A people's happiness
- 11:12, 13. Least said, soonest mended
- 11:14. Get all the advice you can
- 11:15. Standing surety
- 11:16. Charm
- 11:17-19. Reaping the consequences
- 11:20. Hateful or delightful to God
- 11:21. Justice will be done
- 11:22. Beauty-and the beast
- 11:23. Desire-and fulfilment
- 11:24-26. The rewards of generosity
- 11:27. What you seek for others, you will get yourself
- 11:28. Prosperity-false and true
- 11:29. It's yourself you are damaging
- 11:30. Virtue spreads its blessings
- 11:31. Strict requital
- 12:1. Welcome discipline
- 12:2. God loves kindness
- 12:3. No righteousness, no roots
- 12:4. A fine wife
- 12:5. As the man, so the policy
- 12:6. Words lethal or liberating
- 12:7. Time is the test
- 12:8. Good sense wins respect
- 12:9. Threadbare gentility
- 12:10. Kindness, even to animals
- 12:11. Frivolity fills no cupboards
- 12:12. The fascination of the forbidden
- 12:13, 14. Words and deeds come back to roost
- 12:15. The man who is never wrong
- 12:16. Self-control is sense
- 12:17-19. Words good and bad
- 12:20. The plans you shape, shape you
- 12:21. More than conquerors
- 12:22. Another thing God detests
- 12:23. Discretion
- 12:24. Laziness has its price
- 12:25. Anxiety
- 12:26. Walk circumspectly
- 12:27. Fleeting opportunity
- 12:28. The way of life
- 13:1. Teachability
- 13:2, 3. Words fruitful or fatal
- 13:4. Sloth leaves you dissatisfied
- 13:5. Words fair and foul
- 13:6. Honesty is safety
- 13:7, 8. Riches and poverty
- 13:9. Bright prospect
- 13:10. The products of pride
- 13:11. Easy come, easy go
- 13:12. Hope deferred
- 13:13. Obedience pays
- 13:14. Law means life
- 13:15. Tact with integrity
- 13:16. The product proclaims the man
- 13:17. Envoys good and bad
- 13:18. Welcome criticism
- 13:19. Heart's desire
- 13:20. Education by friendship
- 13:21, 22. Requital
- 13:23. Method matters most
- 13:24. Spare the rod, spoil the child
- 13:25. Requital
- 14:1. The home-maker
- 14:2. Not only with our lips
- 14:3. Words come back to roost
- 14:4. Neat but negative
- 14:5. Witnesses true and false
- 14:6. Wisdom eludes the know-all
- 14:7. Empty encounter
- 14:8. Real sense and real folly
- 14:9. Moral insolence
- 14:10. The inmost heart
- 14:11. Retribution
- 14:12. The false trail
- 14:13. Bitter-sweet gaiety
- 14:14. Table for one
- 14:15-17. Examples of folly and sense
- 14:18. The fool and the wise rewarded
- 14:19. Evil pays homage
- 14:20. Fair-weather friends
- 14:21. The sin of contempt
- 14:22. Paid in their own coin
- 14:23. Toil or talk
- 14:24. Crown or fool's cap
- 14:25. Unyielding honesty
- 14:26, 27. Godliness-fortress and fountain
- 14:28. A king's glory
- 14:29, 30. Live peaceably
- 14:31. Rags and respect
- 14:32. Final ruin or final refuge
- 14:33. Where wisdom is at home
- 14:34. A nation's stature
- 14:35. Efficiency rewarded
- 15:1. A soft answer
- 15:2. Responsible utterance
- 15:3. The eyes of the Lord
- 15:4. Words: life-giving, death-dealing
- 15:5. Impatience of criticism
- 15:6. What are you storing up?
- 15:7. What are you spreading?
- 15:8, 9. Divine disgust, divine delight
- 15:10. Life-saving reproof
- 15:11. Naked and open
- 15:12. Speak to us smooth things
- 15:13. Morale
- 15:14. Seeker and trifler
- 15:15. Morale
- 15:16, 17. Priorities, spiritual and temporal
- 15:18. Storm-centre
- 15:19. The lazy take the most trouble
- 15:20. '. Bound up in the lad's life'
- 15:21. The playboy
- 15:22. Get all the advice you can
- 15:23. Verbal craftsmanship
- 15:24. Few there be that find it
- 15:25. Protector of the poor
- 15:26. Troublemaking and peacemaking
- 15:27. Root of all evil
- 15:28. Responsible utterance
- 15:29. God, aloof or at hand
- 15:30. A tonic
- 15:31-33. Three proverbs on teachability
- 16:1-9. The sovereignty of the Lord
- 16:10-15. The burden of power
- 16:16. Better than gold
- 16:17. Straight and sure
- 16:18, 19. Pride or humility
- 16:20. Truth and trust
- 16:21. The charm of wisdom (i)
- 16:22. You must live with yourself
- 16:23. The charm of wisdom (ii)
- 16:24. Sweetening is not superfluous
- 16:25. The deceptive road
- 16:26. Incentive to hard work
- 16:27-30. Mischief-makers
- 16:31. Beauty of age
- 16:32. Self-control
- 16:33. God, not chance, decides
- 17:1. Blessed tranquillity
- 17:2. Ability outruns privilege
- 17:3. The crucible
- 17:4. Guilty listener
- 17:5. Heartlessness
- 17:6. Harmony of age and youth
- 17:7. Be what you profess
- 17:8. Bribery
- 17:9. Peacemaker, troublemaker
- 17:10. The will to improve
- 17:11. Playing with fire
- 17:12. Fool on the prowl
- 17:13. Home to roost
- 17:14. Anger's havoc
- 17:15. Injustice
- 17:16. Wisdom not for sale
- 17:17. Friend in need
- 17:18. Unlimited liability
- 17:19. Asking for trouble
- 17:20. Too clever
- 17:21. Disappointing son
- 17:22. The best medicine
- 17:23. The bribe
- 17:24. One thing is needful
- 17:25. Exasperating son
- 17:26. Innocent blood
- 17:27, 28. Think before you speak
- 18:1. Doggedly out of step
- 18:2. Closed mind, open mouth
- 18:3. Sin's travelling companions
- 18:4. Wisdom's sparkling flow
- 18:5. Favouritism
- 18:6, 7. Talking oneself into trouble
- 18:8. Titbits of gossip
- 18:9. Slacker and wrecker
- 18:10, 11. Strong tower
- castle in the air
- 18:12. Pride and humility
- 18:13. Jumping to conclusions
- 18:14. The mainspring
- 18:15. A mind with an appetite
- 18:16. Paving the way
- 18:17. Hear both sides
- 18:18. In his will is our peace
- 18:19. Stubborn defences
- 18:20, 21. Your words will catch up with you
- 18:22. A fine wife
- 18:23. Harsh realities
- 18:24. A friend worth the name
- 19:1. 'How much is he worth?'
- 19:2. Getting nowhere, fast
- 19:3. Always God's fault
- 19:4 Fair-weather friends
- 19:5. Perjury
- 19:6, 7. Fair-weather friends
- 19:8. Sense pays its way
- 19:9. Perjury
- 19:10. Pearls and swine
- 19:11. Magnanimity
- 19:12. The lion and the dew
- 19:13, 14. Hell or heaven at home
- 19:15. The creeping spread of sloth
- 19:16. The soul that sinneth .
- 19:17. 'Ye did it unto me'
- 19:18. Deadly leniency
- 19:19. His own worst enemy
- 19:20. Wisdom a long-term investment
- 19:21. Man proposes, God disposes
- 19:22. A man's true worth
- 19:23. Godliness satisfies
- 19:24. The sluggard's inertia
- 19:25. The language a fool understands
- 19:26. Unnatural son
- 19:27. Trifling with truth
- 19:28. Deliberate distortion
- 19:29. When warnings fail
- 20:1. 'Under the influence .'
- 20:2. Tactlessness
- 20:3. 'Not easily provoked'
- 20:4. The sluggard's softness
- 20:5. Fathoming one's fellow men
- 20:6. Yours faithfully
- 20:7. A father's best legacy
- 20:8. An eye for character
- 20:9. Where self-help fails
- 20:10. Short weight
- 20:11. A child's character
- 20:12. By grace alone
- 20:13. Early to rise
- 20:14. The bargain-driver
- 20:15. Precious jewel
- 20:16. Hostage to fortune
- 20:17. Sin's aftertaste
- 20:18. Be open to advice
- 20:19. Beware of a gossip
- 20:20. Unfilial behaviour
- 20:21. The final audit
- 20:22. Sweeter than vengeance
- 20:23. Fraud
- 20:24. Planned route
- 20:25. Count the cost
- 20:26. Strong government
- 20:27. Conscience
- 20:28. Severity is not enough
- 20:29. Beauty of youth and age
- 20:30. Corporal punishment
- 21:1. King of kings
- 21:2. Weighed in the balances
- 21:3. God cannot be bought
- 21:4. Lofty unconcern
- 21:5. Thoroughness tells
- 21:6. Ill-gotten, ill-fated
- 21:7. Their own executioners
- 21:8. Clear conscience, clear path
- 21:9. The scold
- 21:10. Bent upon evil
- 21:11. Degrees of teachability
- 21:12. Justice will be done
- 21:13. His turn will come
- 21:14. Gifts and bribes
- 21:15. Justice-friend or foe?
- 21:16. Moral wanderlust
- 21:17. The price of pleasure-seeking
- 21:18. The unjust for the just
- 21:19. The scold
- 21:20, 21. Material and spiritual treasure
- 21:22. Strategy
- 21:23. Least said .
- 21:24. Portrait of the scoffer
- 21:25, 26. The tyranny of desire
- 21:27. A sop to heaven
- 21:28. Accurate reporting
- 21:29. Bluff
- 21:30. 'He poureth contempt upon princes .'
- 21:31. '. and looseth the belt of the strong'
- 22:1. Reputation
- 22:2. Poor relations
- 22:3. Walk warily
- 22:4. They shall inherit the earth
- 22:5. The way of the transgressor
- 22:6. Formative years
- 22:7. Money's leverage
- 22:8. The furrows of unrighteousness
- 22:9. Cheerful giver
- 22:10. Troublemaker
- 22:11. Grace and truth
- 22:12. Truth's guardian
- 22:13. Lie on!
- 22:14. The adulteress
- 22:15. Knocking the nonsense out
- 22:16. Expensive tactics
- 3a. Words Of Wise Men (22:17-24:22)
- 22:17-21. The right use of proverbs
- 22:22, 23. Protector of the poor
- 22:24, 25. Bad company
- 22:26, 27. Reckless promises
- 22:28. Betraying the past
- 22:29. The craftsman
- 23:1-8. Discomforts of the social heights
- 23:9. Wisdom wasted on a fool
- 23:10, 11. Champion of the fatherless
- 23:12-16. The strict school of wisdom
- 23:17, 18. Enviable sinners?
- 23:19-21. From revelry to rags
- 23:22-25. A son to be proud of
- 23:26-28. The prostitute's clutches
- 23:29-35. Drink
- 24:1, 2. Enviable sinners?
- 24:3, 4. Founded and furnished
- 24:5, 6. Strategy is strength
- 24:7. A fool out of his element
- 24:8, 9. Morality flouted
- 24:10-12. The quitter
- 24:13, 14. Pleasure with profit
- 24:15, 16. Resilience of the righteous
- 24:17, 18. Never gloat
- 24:19, 20. Never envy sinners
- 24:21, 22. The godly citizen
- 3b. Further Words Of Wise Men (24:23-34)
- 24:23-26. Straight speaking
- 24:27. Foundations for the home
- 24:28. Groundless accusation
- 24:29. Vengefulness
- 24:30-34. The sluggard overwhelmed
- 4. Further Proverbs Of Solomon (Hezekiah's Collection) (25:1-29:27)
- 25:1. Title
- 25:2-7. Kings and courtiers (cf. 16:10-15)
- 25:8-10. Is your tale true-kind-necessary?
- 25:11, 12. Finely said, finely taken
- 25:13. Refreshing faithfulness
- 25:14. The big talker
- 25:15. Quiet persistence
- 25:16. Knowing when to stop
- 25:17. Knowing when to go
- 25:18. False witness
- 25:19. Confidence misplaced
- 25:20. Heartless jollity
- 25:21, 22. The best revenge
- 25:23. Chill wind of slander
- 25:24. The scold
- 25:25. Suspense and relief
- 25:26. The spreading poison of compromise
- 25:27. Too much of a good thing
- 25:28. Soft victim
- 26:1-12. Mostly about fools
- 26:13-16. The sluggard
- 26:17-28. Mischief-making
- 27:1. Boasting of tomorrow
- 27:2. Boasting of oneself
- 27:3. A fool's anger
- 27:4. Jealousy
- 27:5, 6. Frankness between friends
- 27:7. Unenviable repletion
- 27:8. The wanderer
- 27:9. 'Sweet counsel together'
- 27:10. The old family friend
- 27:11. The teacher's joy
- 27:12. Walk warily
- 27:13. Hostage to fortune
- 27:14. Fatuous friend
- 27:15, 16. Nagging wife
- 27:17. Stimulating contact
- 27:18. Rewards of service
- 27:19. Self-knowledge
- 27:20. Never satisfied
- 27:21. The crucible
- 27:22. Ingrained folly
- 27:23-27. Pastoral symphony
- 28:1. 'Where no fear was' (Ps. 53:5)
- 28:2. The scramble for power
- 28:3. Unnatural tyrant
- 28:4. God's law man's bastion
- 28:5. God's law man's light
- 28:6. How much is he worth?
- 28:7. A son to be proud of
- 28:8. The extortioner's estate
- 28:9. Prayer as insult
- 28:10. Corruption of others
- 28:11. Pretentiousness seen through
- 28:12. A people's happiness
- 28:13. Sin buried is sin kept
- 28:14. 'Rejoice with trembling'
- 28:15, 16. Mindless tyranny
- 28:17. The murderer
- 28:18. Nothing to hide, nothing to fear
- 28:19. The diligent and the dilettante
- 28:20. What is he worth?
- 28:21. Favouritism
- 28:22. Miser's miscalculation
- 28:23. Welcome outspokenness
- 28:24. Inhuman son
- 28:25. 'Seek ye first .'
- 28:26. Walk in wisdom
- 28:27. The blessedness of giving
- 28:28. A people's dismay
- 29:1. Beyond reform
- 29:2. A people's happiness
- 29:3. A father's joy
- 29:4. A country's stability
- 29:5. Flattery
- 29:6. Sin's entanglement
- 29:7. Care for the unprivileged
- 29:8. Troublemakers, peacemakers
- 29:9. Controversy with a fool
- 29:10. Good men persecuted
- 29:11. Self-control
- 29:12. False master, false men
- 29:13. One sky over all
- 29:14. The king who wins loyalty
- 29:15. Rod and reproof
- 29:16. Evil outlived
- 29:17. Through discipline to delight
- 29:18. No vision
- 29:19. Stubborn servant
- 29:20. The fool outclassed
- 29:21. Pampered servant
- 29:22. Storm-centre
- 29:23. Pride and humility
- 29:24. Suicidal complicity
- 29:25. 'If God be for us .'
- 29:26. 'My expectation is from him'
- 29:27. Birds of a feather
- 5. Words Of Agur (30:1-33)
- 30:1-9. The sage looks upward
- 30:10-33. The sage looks about him
- 6. Words of King Lemuel (31:1-9)
- A king's calling
- 7. An Alphabet of Wifely Excellence (31:10-31)
- A Short Concordance to the Authorized Version of The Proverbs
- Abomination
- Acknowledge
- Angry (see also Wrath)
- Ant
- Beginning
- Boast
- Brother
- Chasten, Correct
- Child
- Counsel
- Dead, Death
- Discretion
- Dog
- Eat
- End
- Enemy
- Entice
- Envy
- Eyes
- Fall
- Father
- Fear
- Fire
- Folly, Fool
- Friend
- Gift
- Glory
- God
- Gold
- Harlot (see also Woman)
- Hate
- Hear
- Heart
- Hell
- Honeycomb
- Honour
- Hope
- House
- Instruction
- King
- Knowledge
- Labour
- Landmark
- Law
- Life
- Light
- Lips
- Lord
- Lot
- Love
- Lowly (see also Proud)
- Message, Messenger
- Multitude
- Name
- Neighbour
- Net
- News
- Ox
- Path (see also Way)
- Peace
- Pit
- Poor (see also Rich)
- Poverty
- Prayer
- Pride
- Proud
- Prudent
- Rebuke, Reproof
- Recompense
- Rich, Riches (see also Poor, Poverty)
- Righteous, Righteousness (see also Wicked)
- Rod
- Rubies
- Scorner
- Secret
- Servant
- Shame
- Simple
- Sin
- Sleep
- Slothful, Sluggard
- Son
- Sorrow, Sorrowful
- Soul
- Spirit
- Surety
- Sweet, Sweetness
- Thief
- Tongue
- Trust
- Understanding
- Vinegar
- Way
- Weight
- Wicked (see also Righteous)
- Wife
- Wine
- Wisdom
- Witness
- Woman
- Word
- Wounds
- Wrath
