Chú giải Kinh Thánh

Pr 27:1-27.

1. Do not confide implicitly in your plans

(Pr 16:9; 19:21; Jas 4:13-15).

2. Avoid self-praise.

3. heavy--The literal sense of "heavy," applied to material subjects, illustrates its figurative, "grievous," applied to moral.

a fool's wrath--is unreasonable and excessive.

4. envy--or, "jealousy" (compare Margin;

Pr 6:34),

is more unappeasable than the simpler bad passions.

5, 6. secret love--not manifested in acts is useless; and even, if its exhibition by rebukes wounds us, such love is preferable to the frequent (compare Margin), and hence deceitful, kisses of an enemy.

7. The luxury of wealth confers less happiness than the healthy appetite of labor.

8. Such are not only out of place, but out of duty and in danger.

9. rejoice the heart--the organ of perceiving what pleases the senses.

sweetness . . . counsel--or, "wise counsel is also pleasing."