Author Archives: david

The way of the guilty is crooked, but the conduct of the pure is upright. It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife. The soul of the wicked desires evil;… →

The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty. The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapour and a snare of death. The violence of the wicked will sweep them away, because they refuse… →

The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will. Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart. To do righteousness and justice is more… →

The glory of young men is their strength, but the splendour of old men is their grey hair. Blows that wound cleanse away evil; strokes make clean the innermost parts. Proverbs 20:29-30 Of 29 Kidner says that it is ‘a proverb to… →

Unequal weights are an abomination to the Lord, and false scales are not good. A man’s steps are from the Lord; how then can man understand his way? It is a snare to say rashly, “It is holy”, and to reflect only after making vows.… →

Do not say, “I will repay evil”;     wait for the Lord, and he will deliver you Proverbs 20:22 Here is a worthy and challenging comment on this verse from Ironside’s commentary: ‘No lesson is harder for some of us to learn than… →

Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty;     open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread. “Bad, bad,” says the buyer,     but when he goes away, then he boasts. There is gold and abundance of costly stones,     but the lips of… →

Many a man proclaims his own steadfast love,     but a faithful man who can find? The righteous who walks in his integrity—     blessed are his children after him! A king who sits on the throne of judgement     winnows all evil with his eyes.… →

The terror of a king is like the growling of a lion;     whoever provokes him to anger forfeits his life. It is an honour for a man to keep aloof from strife,     but every fool will be quarrelling. The sluggard does not plough… →