Some do all the mischief they can by force and violence, and are blind to the result.
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Proverbs 16:29-30
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 16:29-30
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The Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 16:1-33Proverbs 16:1-33 · The Pulpit CommentaryEXPOSITIONThe Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 16:27-30Proverbs 16:27-30 · The Pulpit CommentaryPenal judgments on guilt I. GODLESS STRIVINGS. Life is full of success and failure. There are successes which cost the soul, and failures in which is contained the reaping of life eternal. The activity of the worthless…The Sovereignty of Divine ProvidenceProverbs 16:29-30 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleHere is another sort of evil men described to us, that we may neither do like them, nor have any thing to do with them. 1. Such as (like Satan) do all the mischief they can by force and violence, as roaring lions, and n…The Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 16:29Proverbs 16:29 · The Pulpit CommentaryA violent man enticeth his neighbour. The man of violence (Proverbs 3:31) is one who wrongs others by injurious conduct, by fraud or oppression. How such a one "enticeth," talks a man over, we see in Proverbs 1:10, etc.…
commentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 16:1-33EXPOSITIONJoseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 16:27-30Penal judgments on guilt I. GODLESS STRIVINGS. Life is full of success and failure. There are successes which cost the soul, and failures in which is contained the reaping of life eternal. The activity of the worthless…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Sovereignty of Divine ProvidenceHere is another sort of evil men described to us, that we may neither do like them, nor have any thing to do with them. 1. Such as (like Satan) do all the mischief they can by force and violence, as roaring lions, and n…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 16:29A violent man enticeth his neighbour. The man of violence (Proverbs 3:31) is one who wrongs others by injurious conduct, by fraud or oppression. How such a one "enticeth," talks a man over, we see in Proverbs 1:10, etc.…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 16:30This verse is better taken as one sentence, and translated, as Nowack, "He that shutteth his eyes in order to contrive froward things, he that compresseth his lips, hath already brought evil to pass;" he has virtually e…Joseph S. Exell and contributors