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<p id="Chapter24" align="center">Commentary by A. R. FAUSSET<br>CHAPTER 24
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<p id="Pr24_1"><a onclick="return mV('Pro',24,'1-34');">Pro 24:1-34</a>.
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<p><b>1, 2.</b> (Compare <a onclick="return mV('Pro',23,3,17);">Pro 23:3, 17</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',37,1);">Psa 37:1</a>).
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<p id="Pr24_2"><b>2. studieth</b>—meditateth.
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<br><br><b>talk...mischief</b>—Their expressed purposes are to do evil.
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<p id="Pr24_3"><b>3, 4.</b> (Compare <a onclick="return mV('Pro',14,1);">Pro 14:1</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',54,14);">Isa 54:14</a>).
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<br><br><b>house</b>—including the family.
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<p id="Pr24_4"><b>4. by knowledge...riches</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Pro',8,18);">Pro 8:18</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Pro',21,20);">21:20</a>).
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<p id="Pr24_5"><b>5, 6.</b> The general statement (<a onclick="return mV('Ecc',9,16,18);">Ecc 9:16, 18</a>) is specially illustrated (compare <a onclick="return mV('Pro',21,22);">Pro 21:22</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',144,1);">Psa 144:1</a>).
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<p id="Pr24_7"><b>7.</b> (Compare <a onclick="return mV('Pro',14,16);">Pro 14:16</a>).
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<br><br><b>in the gate</b>—(Compare <a onclick="return mV('Pro',22,22);">Pro 22:22</a>).
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<p id="Pr24_8"><b>8.</b> So called even if he fails <i>to do evil.</i>
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<p id="Pr24_9"><b>9.</b> Same thought varied.
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<p id="Pr24_10"><b>10.</b> Literally, "If thou fail in the day of straits (<i>adversity</i>), strait (or, small) is thy strength," which is then truly tested.
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<p id="Pr24_11"><b>11, 12.</b> Neglect of known duty is sin (<a onclick="return mV('Jam',4,17);">Jam 4:17</a>).
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<br><br><b>ready</b>—literally, "bowing down"
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<br><br><b>to be slain</b>—that is, unjustly. God's retributive justice cannot be avoided by professed ignorance.
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<p id="Pr24_13"><b>13, 14.</b> As delicious food whets the appetite, so should the rewards of wisdom excite us to seek it.
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<p id="Pr24_14"><b>14. reward</b>—literally, "after part," the proper result (compare <a onclick="return mV('Pro',23,18);">Pro 23:18</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',37,37,38);">Psa 37:37-38</a>).
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<p id="Pr24_15"><b>15, 16.</b> The plots of the wicked against the good, though partially, shall not be fully successful (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',37,24);">Psa 37:24</a>); while the wicked, falling under penal evil, find no help.
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<p id="Pr24_16"><b>16. seven times</b>—often, or many (<a onclick="return mV('Pro',6,16,31);">Pro 6:16, 31</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Pro',9,1);">9:1</a>).
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<p id="Pr24_17"><b>17, 18.</b> Yet let none rejoice over the fate of evildoers, lest God punish their wrong spirit by relieving the sufferer (compare <a onclick="return mV('Pro',17,5);">Pro 17:5</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Job',31,29);">Job 31:29</a>).
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<p id="Pr24_19"><b>19, 20.</b> (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',37,1,38);">Psa 37:1, 38</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',18,28);">18:28</a>).
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<p id="Pr24_20"><b>20. candle</b>—or, "prosperity"; it shall come to an end (<a onclick="return mV('Pro',13,9);">Pro 13:9</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Pro',20,20);">20:20</a>).
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<p id="Pr24_21"><b>21, 22.</b> A warning against impiety and resistance to lawful rule (<a onclick="return mV('Rom',13,'1-7');">Rom 13:1-7</a>; <a onclick="return mV('1Pe',2,17);">1Pe 2:17</a>).
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<br><br><b>meddle...change</b>—(Compare <i>Margin</i>), literally, "mingle not yourself," avoid the society of restless persons.
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<p id="Pr24_22"><b>22. their calamity,</b> etc.—either what God and the king inflict, or what <i>changers</i> and their company suffer; better the first.
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<p id="Pr24_23"><b>23. These...wise</b>—literally, "are of the wise," as authors (compare "Psalms of David," <i>Hebrew</i>). "These" refers to the verses following, <a onclick="return mV('Pro',24,'24-34');">Pro 24:24-34</a>.
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<br><br><b>to have respect</b>—literally, "to discern faces," show partiality,
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<p id="Pr24_24"><b>24, 25.</b> of which an example is justifying the wicked, to which is opposed, rebuking him, which has a blessing.
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<p id="Pr24_26"><b>26. kiss his lips</b>—love and obey, do homage (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',2,12);">Psa 2:12</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Sgs',8,1);">Sgs 8:1</a>).
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<br><br><b>right answer</b>—literally, "plain words" (compare <a onclick="return mV('Pro',8,9);">Pro 8:9</a>), opposed to deceptive, or obscure.
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<p id="Pr24_27"><b>27. Prepare...in the field</b>—Secure, by diligence, a proper support, and then build; provide necessaries, then comforts, to which a house rather pertained, in a mild climate, permitting the use of tents.
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<p id="Pr24_28"><b>28.</b> Do not speak even truth needlessly against any, and never falsehood.
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<p id="Pr24_29"><b>29.</b> Especially avoid retaliation (<a onclick="return mV('Mat',5,'43-45');">Mat 5:43-45</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rom',12,17);">Rom 12:17</a>).
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<p id="Pr24_30"><b>30, 31.</b> A striking picture of the effects of sloth.
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<p id="Pr24_32"><b>32-34.</b> From the folly of the sluggard learn wisdom (<a onclick="return mV('Pro',6,10,11);">Pro 6:10-11</a>).
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