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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown · 1871
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown · 1871
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871). CCEL expanded electronic edition states it is in the public domain.
Proverbs Chapter 16 1 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Proverbs Chapter 16 2 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
2. clean--or, "faultless."
weigheth--or, "tries," "judges," implying that they are faulty
(Pr 21:2; 24:12).
Proverbs Chapter 16 3 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
3. (Compare Margin). Rely on God for success to your lawful purposes.
Proverbs Chapter 16 4 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
4. for himself--"for its answer," or "purpose," that is, according to God's plan; the wicked are for the day of evil
(Ps 49:5; Jer 17:18);
sinning and suffering answer to each other, are indissolubly united.
Proverbs Chapter 16 5 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
5. (Compare
Pr 3:32).
Proverbs Chapter 16 6 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
6. By mercy and truth--that is, God's
(Ps 85:10);
He effects the atonement, or covering of sin; and the principles of true piety incline men to depart from evil; or, "mercy" and "truth" may be man's, indicative of the gracious tempers which work instrumentally in procuring pardon.
purged--expiated (as in
Le 16:33; Isa 27:9,
Hebrew).
Proverbs Chapter 16 7 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
7. Persecutions, of course, excepted.
Proverbs Chapter 16 8 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
8. (Compare
Pr 15:6, 16, 17).
Pr 16:1-33.
1. preparations--schemes.
in man--or literally, "to man," belonging, or pertaining to him.
the answer . . . Lord--The efficient ordering is from God: "Man proposes; God disposes."