Proverbs 24

Proverbs 24:7

24:7 Wisdom [is] too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the \ gate.

(a) In the place where wisdom should be shown.

Proverbs 24:10

24:10 [If] thou \ faintest in the day of adversity, thy strength [is] small.

(b) Man has no trial of his strength till he is in trouble.

Proverbs 24:11

24:11 If thou refraineth to deliver [them that are] drawn to \ death, and [those that are] ready to be slain;

(c) No one can be excused, if he does not help the innocent when he is in danger.

Proverbs 24:13

24:13 My son, eat thou \ honey, because [it is] good; and the honeycomb, [which is] sweet to thy taste:

(d) As honey is sweet and pleasant to the taste, so wisdom is to the soul.

Proverbs 24:16

24:16 For a just [man] \ falleth seven times, and riseth again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.

(e) He is subject to many perils, but God delivers him.

Proverbs 24:18

24:18 Lest the LORD see [it], and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath \ from him.

(f) To be avenged on you.

Proverbs 24:22

24:22 For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them \ both?

(g) Meaning, either of the wicked and seditious, as in Proverbs 24:19; Proverbs 24:21 or of them who do not fear God or obey their king.

Proverbs 24:27

24:27 Prepare thy work outside, and make it fit for thyself in the field; \ and afterwards build thy house.

(h) Be sure of the means how to compass it, before you take any enterprise in hand.

Proverbs 24:29

24:29 Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I \ will render to the man according to his work.

(i) He shows what is the nature of the wicked, to revenge wrong for wrong.

Proverbs 24:32

24:32 Then I saw, [and] considered [it] well: I looked upon [it, and] received \ instruction.

(k) That I might learn by another man’s fault.

Proverbs 24:33

24:33 [Yet] a little sleep, \ a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

(l) Read Geneva “Proverbs 6:10”