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Selected Verse: Proverbs 31:6 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Pr 31:6 |
Strong Concordance |
Give [05414] strong drink [07941] unto him that is ready to perish [06], and wine [03196] unto those that be of heavy [04751] hearts [05315]. |
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King James |
Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts. |
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] |
| The proper use of such drinks is to restore tone to feeble bodies and depressed minds (compare Psa 104:15). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| The true purpose of the power of wine over man's mind and body, as a restorative and remedial agent. Compare the margin reference. The same thought showed itself in the Jewish practice of giving a cup of wine to mourners, and (as in the history of the crucifixion) to criminals at their execution. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
6 Give strong drink to him that is perishing,
And wine to those whose soul is in bitter woe;
7 Let him drink and forget his poverty,
And let him think of his misery no more.
The preparation of a potion for malefactors who were condemned to death was, on the ground of these words of the proverb, cared for by noble women in Jerusalem (נשׁים יקרות שׁבירושׁלים), Sanhedrin 43a; Jesus rejected it, because He wished, without becoming insensible to His sorrow, to pass away from the earthly life freely and in full consciousness, Mar 15:23. The transition from the plur. to the sing. of the subject is in Pro 31:7 less violent than in Pro 31:5, since in Pro 31:6 singular and plur. already interchange. We write תּנוּ־שׁכר with the counter-tone Metheg and Mercha. אובד designates, as at Job 29:13; Job 31:19, one who goes to meet destruction: it combines the present signification interiens, the fut. signif. interiturus, and the perf. perditus (hopelessly lost). מרי נפשׁ (those whose minds are filled with sorrow) is also supported from the Book of Job; Job 3:20, cf. Pro 21:25, the language and thought and mode of writing of which notably rests on the Proverbs of Agur and Lemuel (vid., Mhlau, pp. 64-66). The Venet. τοῖς πικροῖς (not ψυξροῖς) τὴν ψυχήν. רישׁ (poverty) is not, however, found there, but only in the Book of Proverbs, in which this word-stem is more at home than elsewhere. Wine rejoices the heart of man, Psa 104:15, and at the same time raises it for the time above oppression and want, and out of anxious sorrow, wherefore it is soonest granted to them, and in sympathizing love ought to be presented to them by whom this its beneficent influence is to be wished for. The ruined man forgets his poverty, the deeply perplexed his burden of sorrow; the king, on the contrary, is in danger from this cause of forgetting what the law required at his hands, viz., in relation to those who need help, to whom especially his duty as a ruler refers. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| To perish - To faint; for such need a cordial. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish - We have already seen, that inebriating drinks were mercifully given to condemned criminals, to render them less sensible of the torture they endured in dying. This is what was offered to our Lord; but he refused it. See note on Psa 104:15. |
15 And wine [03196] that maketh glad [08055] the heart [03824] of man [0582], and oil [08081] to make his face [06440] to shine [06670], and bread [03899] which strengtheneth [05582] man's [0582] heart [03824].
15 And wine [03196] that maketh glad [08055] the heart [03824] of man [0582], and oil [08081] to make his face [06440] to shine [06670], and bread [03899] which strengtheneth [05582] man's [0582] heart [03824].
25 The desire [08378] of the slothful [06102] killeth [04191] him; for his hands [03027] refuse [03985] to labour [06213].
20 Wherefore is light [0216] given [05414] to him that is in misery [06001], and life [02416] unto the bitter [04751] in soul [05315];
19 If I have seen [07200] any perish [06] for want of clothing [03830], or any poor [034] without covering [03682];
13 The blessing [01293] of him that was ready to perish [06] came [0935] upon me: and I caused the widow's [0490] heart [03820] to sing for joy [07442].
6 Give [05414] strong drink [07941] unto him that is ready to perish [06], and wine [03196] unto those that be of heavy [04751] hearts [05315].
5 Lest they drink [08354], and forget [07911] the law [02710], and pervert [08138] the judgment [01779] of any of the afflicted [01121] [06040].
7 Let him drink [08354], and forget [07911] his poverty [07389], and remember [02142] his misery [05999] no more.
23 And [2532] they gave [1325] him [846] to drink [4095] wine [3631] mingled with myrrh [4669]: but [1161] he received [2983] it not [3756].
15 And wine [03196] that maketh glad [08055] the heart [03824] of man [0582], and oil [08081] to make his face [06440] to shine [06670], and bread [03899] which strengtheneth [05582] man's [0582] heart [03824].