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Proverbs 16:1-33
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commentaryMatthew Henry on Proverbs 16:1The renewing grace of God alone prepares the heart for every good work. This teaches us that we are not sufficient of ourselves to think or speak any thing wise and good.Matthew HenrycommentaryMatthew Henry on Proverbs 16:1As we read this, it teaches us a great truth, that we are not sufficient of ourselves to think or speak any thing of ourselves that is wise and good, but that all our sufficiency is of God, who is with the heart and wit…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 16:1The Authorized Version makes one sentence of this verse without any contrast or antithesis. This is plainly wrong, there being intended a contrast between the thought of the heart and the well ordered speech. It is bett…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 16:1Man's thought and God's work Theology and philosophy have ever been confronted with the problem of the interrelation of the Divine and the human in life. If God is supreme, what room is there for man's will, thought, an…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 16:1-7These are specially religions maxims, and they all contain the name Jehovah.Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 16:1-3The rule and guidance of Jehovah I. GOD THE OBJECT AND FULFILMENT OF HUMAN DESIRE. We are wishful, craving creatures, "with no language but a sigh." The answer of the praying tongue and heart is God himself—in the fulne…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryMatthew Henry on Proverbs 16:2Ignorance, pride, and self-flattery render us partial judges respecting our own conduct.Matthew HenrycommentaryMatthew Henry on Proverbs 16:2Note, 1. We are all apt to be partial in judging of ourselves: All the ways of a man, all his designs, all his doings, are clean in his own eyes, and he sees nothing amiss in them, nothing for which to condemn himself,…Matthew Henry