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Selected Verse: Proverbs 28:5 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Pr 28:5 |
King James |
Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things. |
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 Joh 7:17). Ignorance of moral truth is due to unwillingness to know it. |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
The deep interdependence of morality and intellect. We have a right judgment in all things in proportion as our hearts seek to know God. Compare Jam 1:23-24. |
Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
A similar antithetic distich:
Wicked men understand not what is right;
But they who seek Jahve understand all.
Regarding the gen. expression אנשׁי־רע, vid., under Pro 2:14. He who makes wickedness his element, falls into the confusion of the moral conception; but he whose end is the one living God, gains from that, in every situation of life, even amid the greatest difficulties, the knowledge of that which is morally right. Similarly the Apostle John (Jo1 2:20): "ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things" (οἴδατε πάντα): i.e., ye need to seek that knowledge which ye require, and which ye long after, not without yourselves, but in the new divine foundation of your personal life; from thence all that ye need for the growth of your spiritual life, and for the turning away from you of hostile influences, will come into your consciences. It is a potential knowledge, all-comprehensive in its character, and obviously a human relative knowledge, that is here meant. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
Judgment - What is just and right. All things - Which are necessary to be known by them. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
They that seek the Lord understand all things - They are wise unto salvation; they "have the unction from the Holy One, and they know all things," Jo1 2:20, every thing that is essentially needful for them to know, in reference to both worlds. |
17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
20 But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.
14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
20 But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.