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Selected Verse: Proverbs 1:19 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Pr 1:19 |
King James |
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Not robbery only, but all forms of covetousness are destructive of true life. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
An epiphonema:
Such is the lot of all who indulge in covetousness;
It takes away the life of its owner.
This language is formed after Job 8:13. Here, as there, in the word ארחות, the ideas of action and issue, manner of life and its result, are all combined. בּצע signifies properly that which is cut off, a piece, fragment broken off, then that which one breaks off and takes to himself - booty, gain, particularly unjust gain (Pro 28:16). בּצע בּצע is he who is greedy or covetous. The subject to יקּח is בּצע, covetousness, πλεονεξία (see Isa 57:17). As Hoses, Job 4:11, says of three other things that they taken away לב, the understanding (νοῦς), so here we are taught regarding unjust gain or covetousness, that it takes away נפשׁ, the life (ψυχή) (לקח נפשׁ, to take away the life, Kg1 19:10; Psa 31:14). בּעליו denotes not the possessor of unjust gain, but as an inward conception, like בעל אף, Pro 22:24, cf. Pro 23:2; Pro 24:8; Ecc 10:11, him of whom covetousness is the property. The sing. נפשׁ does not show that בּעליו is thought of as sing.; cf. Pro 22:23, Ps. 34:23; but according to Pro 3:27; Pro 16:22; Ecc 8:8, this is nevertheless probable, although the usage without the suffix is always בּעל בּצע, and not בּעלי (of plur. intens. בּעלים). |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Greedy - That seeks gain by wicked practices. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Which taketh away the life - A covetous man is in effect, and in the sight of God, a murderer; he wishes to get all the gain that can accrue to any or all who are in the same business that he follows - no matter to him how many families starve in consequence. This is the very case with him who sets up shop after shop in different parts of the same town or neighborhood, in which he carries on the same business, and endeavors to undersell others in the same trade, that he may get all into his own hand. |
8 There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
22 Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.
27 Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.
23 For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.
11 Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.
8 He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.
2 And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
24 Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
14 But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.
10 And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
11 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.
17 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.
16 The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.
13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish: