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Selected Verse: Proverbs 13:14 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Pr 13:14 |
King James |
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
(Compare Pro 10:11).
fountain--or, "source of life."
to depart--(compare Pro 1:2-4), or, "for departing," &c., and so gives life. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
14 The doctrine of the wise man is a fountain of life,
To escape the snares of death.
An integral distich, vid., p. 8 of the Introduction. Essentially like 14a, Pro 10:11 says, "a fountain of life is the mouth of the righteous." The figure of the fountain of life with the teleological 'לסור וגו (the ל of the end and consequence of the action) is repeated Pro 14:27. The common non-biblical figure of the laquei mortis leads also to the idea of death as יקוּשׁ a fowler, Psa 91:3. If it is not here a mere formula for the dangers of death (Hitzig), then the proverb is designed to state that the life which springs from the doctrine of the wise man as from a fountain of health, for the disciple who will receive it, communicates to him knowledge and strength, to know where the snares of destruction lie, and to hasten with vigorous steps away when they threaten to entangle him. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| The law - The instruction, or counsel; as the word law, is frequently understood in scripture. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| The law of the wise is a fountain of life - Perhaps it would be better to translate, "The law is to the wise man a fountain of life." It is the same to him as the "vein of lives," מקור חיים mekor chaiyim, the great aorta which transmits the blood from the heart to every part of the body. There seems to be here an allusion to the garden of paradise, to the tree of lives, to the tempter, to the baleful issue of that temptation, and to the death entailed on man by his unwisely breaking the law of his God. |
2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
11 The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
27 The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
11 The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.