Click to donate today! THE EVIL OF ISOLATION. High - In the Hebrew the same word as "safe" Proverbs 18:10, and manifestly used in reference to it. This would be an amusing character, were it not, at the same time, so provoking. Nay, even the commendation of a large liberality as a means of gaining for ones self favour and influence in human society (Proverbs 18:16), and likewise the praise of an excellent mistress of a family, are quite closely connected with this main subject of the chapter, which admonishes to love towards ones fellow-men; they only show the many-sided completeness with which the theme is here treated.Langes Commentary. You faith tested - Jesus sees. Herod feasts in the palace, while John the Baptist is beheaded in the dungeon. 4. Why? When the wicked comes, then comes also contempt, and with ignominy reproach. The sources of the evil are various. Because it is the only thing that separates them. And the act of faith is a renouncing of self and a snatching at the name, that is, the righteousness or substituted standing of our Great Deliverer. ESV There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death. The matter of fact is here statedand there are natural enough reasons to account for it. 2. Unfriendly people care only about themselves; they lash out at common sense. There is in the wise a love of knowledge, and an application of the mental powers for its attainment. A man may, in various ways, make his lips the instrument of either want on the one hand, or plenty on the other.Wardlaw. I. Slothfulness and prodigality have the same origin. In the field of the world, the tares grow as well as the wheat (Matthew 13:26), and often they seem for a time to be more flourishing. (1 Samuel 15:17-23.) Other renderings are. Bereavement, the faithlessness of friends, disappointed hopes, often deeply wound the spirit, yet men bear these wounds and often are made better and stronger by them. Rivers and wells that are fed from the mountain recesses which are filled with eternal snows never dry upthey are fed from a source that is never exhausted. 1 Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom. A heart made discerning gains in knowledge, etc. Spiritual sickness varies (as some diseases do in the body according to the constitution of the sick) thereafter as the soul is that hath it, whether regenerate or reprobate. I. Solitude is indispensable to the attainment of wisdom. He separates himself from all outward hindrances, vain company, trifling amusements or studies, needless engagements, that he may seek and intermeddle with all wisdom. A sinner stands dead like a blasted oak, but a saint not only lives by growing, but grows by living.Miller. They who thrive on slender means, make the most of what they have; whereas they who live in the midst of abundance get into habits of carelessness, and of the prodigal use of what they have.Wardlaw. 4 and 15); that against bold impiety, proud dispositions and hardness of heart against the poor (Proverbs 18:3; Proverbs 18:12; Proverbs 18:23); that against slothfulness in the duties of ones calling, foolish confidence in earthly riches, and want of true moral courage and confidence in God (Proverbs 18:9-11; comp. He is impelled to the search simply by a desire which is born of his appreciation of its worthby a knowledge of its power to bless his life. If there is to be a genuine friendship there must be mutual confidence and a mutual recognition of excellencies, for if the trust and admiration is on one side only the fire will soon burn out for want of fuel. (1) He who separateth himself from others seeks his own desire, and rushes forward against all wise counsel: a warning against self-will and the self-assertion which exults in differing from the received customs and opinions of mankind. So the man whose words are listened to and waited for by other menwhether he be the skilful barrister, or the powerful statesman, or the preacher of the Gospel, has a satisfaction in being able so to put forth his conceptions as to give to his fellow-men new ideasto show them things in a light in which they might never have seen them but for this power which he possesses. Things go on as before; and still (to use rather a colloquial, but sufficiently expressive phrase), what is taken in by the door is thrown out by the window; and still the wonder continues how it goes! 18 The simple have folly as an adornment, but the shrewd wear knowledge as a crown. Things don't always work out the way we want them to, and even if you're the most adaptable person in the world, life is going to throw you a few curveballs, and you're going to strike out once or twice. David has recorded as his experience that he had seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay-treebut he passed by, and lo, he was not (Psalms 37:35). They trusted in themselves, and in their own wisdom, despising others (Luke 18:9; Luke 16:15; Jude 1:19). Proverbs 3:13). Proverbs 12:18; Proverbs 26:28). A moment once lost, is lost for ever. The one has been compared to a man who dies by a rapid and violent disease, and the other by a slow and subtle consumption. 18 Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment. He is filled with the increase of his skilful hand. But observe:. and be exalted on high. That, of course, is Jesus Christ. Wherefore, when the mighty strive, and might of reason standeth on both sides equally, being too strong for man to decide, let the Almighty by His lot decide it.Jermin. Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee (Ezekiel 3:22). The gift of one talent is more common than the gift of ten, yet both the ten and the one are gifts from the same hand. This is but another way of putting the old proverb that One tale is good till another is told. And this does not necessarily imply that the first teller of the tale is an untruthful person, but we are so apt to apprehend facts through the medium of our own prejudicesto see things in the light in which we wish to see themthat even two truthful men may sometimes vary much in their version of the same occurrence. They keep no daily reckoningno accounts; and so their money is gone, they cant tell howthey had no idea they were living at such a rate!and even when they have made the discovery there is no improvement. Partner with StudyLight.org as God uses us to make a difference for those displaced by Russia's war on Ukraine. Verse 8. When such expectations are disappointed, the wound in the spirit is proportionately deeper, and more difficult of healingthe breach wider, and harder of being made up. She said, "Well, honey, you go outside and play for a little while and then come on in and Mother will tell you." What care, then, should we use to pluck from our hearts every root of bitterness, and to have them furnished with knowledge and prudence, that our discourse may be good, to the use of edifying!Lawson. We know there have been many noble exceptions to this rulethat there have been hundreds of poor men who have preferred starvation to a forfeiture of any part of their God-given inheritancebut the temptation of the poor man in this direction is often very strong by reason of his great necessity. If there is effort without wisdom to guide it there may be seeking without getting. They become uneasy, fretted, and fidgetty; and are ever anxious to catch at any occasion for cutting the matter short and being done with it. The two evils censured are. Self-conceitthe affectation of extraordinary acuteness. But the water from a well, or from a deep and flowing stream, is generally pure and wholesome to the taste, and refreshing to the land through which it flows. Abigail Dodds Nov 7, 2020. Rich in privileges, they are poor in the graces and enjoyments of the life of God in the soul. Proverbes 18:1 Interlinaire Proverbes 18:1 Multilingue Proverbios 18:1 Espagnol Proverbes 18:1 Franais Sprueche 18:1 Allemand Proverbes 18:1 Chinois Proverbs 18:1 Anglais Bible Apps Bible Hub Version Louis Segond 1910 La Bible David Martin 1744 Darby Bible courtesy of CCEL.org. A communication has been established between the soul of a good man and the living Godhe holds constant communion with a source of spiritual life which can never fail, and consequently he can never be at a loss for subjects upon which to discoursehis mind is always filled with new thoughts of God, and new hopes of heaven upon which to meditate himself and which he can communicate to others. Is harder to be won; these words are not in the original, but have been inserted to supply the sense. A. James, is the most precious thing in the world. So same concept, another proverb. The name of the Lord. God has revealed Himself to men by many names, each one of which is intended to set forth some attribute of His perfect nature. John separated himself in the wilderness, Paul in Arabia, our blessed Lord in frequent retirement, in order to greater concentration in their momentous work. There is no anguish to that of the conscience: A wounded spirit who can bear? II. Everything here calls for our deepest, closest thoughts. The self-conceited man assumes a very sagacious and penetrating looksits down with apparent determination to hear out the cause on both sides, and to judge righteous judgment. But it is hardly well begun, when the self-conceited man sees to the end of it. It is surprising with what agility this spirit of self-conceit gets over difficulties. Jobs incautious self-defence was laid open by Elihus probing application. We must separate ourselves from all those things which would divert us from or retard us in the pursuit, retire out of the noise of this world's vanities, and then seek and intermeddle with all the means and instructions of wisdom, be willing to take pains and try all the methods of improving ourselves, be acquainted with a variety of opinions, that we may prove all things and hold fast that which is good. Self-love is the twist in the heart within, and self-interest is the side to which the variation from righteousness steadily tends. The heart makes the lie, deceiving first the man himself, and thereafter his neighbours. ch. Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear; Dare to look in thy chest, for tis thine own. A man, when he is alone, is more likely to see things as they really are; he is less under the influence of the seen and temporal than when he is in the market, or on the crowded highway, and consequently things unseen and eternal have a more powerful influence over him at such a season. The eye can influence men, but not so powerfully as the tongue, nor can its influence reach so many at once. However, we do not feel this is the best method for using the Blue Letter Bible. Another passage may serve to confirm this view. Like the apostles of old, he cannot but speak the things which he has seen and heard (Acts 4:20). 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