geneva - Proverbs:1-5

geneva@Proverbs:1:1 @ The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; (note:)The Argument - The wonderful love of God toward his Church is declared in this book: for as much as the sum and effect of the whole Scriptures is here set forth in these brief sentences, which partly contain doctrine, and partly manners, and also exhortations to both: of which the first nine Chapters are as a preface full of grave sentences and deep mysteries, to assure the hearts of men to the diligent reading of the parables that follow: which are left as a precious jewel to the Church, of those three thousand parables mentioned in (1Ki_4:32) and were gathered and committed to writing by Solomon's servants and incited by him.(:note)

geneva@Proverbs:1:2 @ To know wisdom (note:)That is, what we ought to know and follow, and what we ought to refuse.(:note) and instruction; to perceive the words Meaning, the word of God in which is the only true knowledge. of understanding;

geneva@Proverbs:1:3 @ To receive the (note:)To learn to submit ourselves to the correction of those who are wise.(:note) instruction of wisdom, By living justly and rendering to every man that which belongs to him. justice, and judgment, and equity;

geneva@Proverbs:1:4 @ To give subtilty to the (note:)To such as have no discretion to rule themselves.(:note) simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.

geneva@Proverbs:1:5 @ A wise [man] will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of (note:)As he shows that these parables containing the effect of religion concerning manners and doctrine, belong to the simple people: so he declares that the same is also necessary for them who are wise and learned.(:note) understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

geneva@Proverbs:1:6 @ To vnderstand a parable, & the interpretation, the wordes of ye wise, and their darke sayings.

geneva@Proverbs:1:7 @ The feare of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fooles despise wisedome and instruction.

geneva@Proverbs:1:8 @ My son, hear the instruction of thy (note:)He speaks this in the Name of God, who is the universal Father of all creatures, or in the name of the pastor of the Church, who is as a father.(:note) father, and forsake not the law of thy That is, of the Church, in which the faithful are begotten by the incorruptible seed of God's word. mother:

geneva@Proverbs:1:9 @ For they shalbe a comely ornament vnto thine head, and as chaines for thy necke.

geneva@Proverbs:1:10 @ My son, (note:)That is, the wicked who do not have the fear of God.(:note) if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

geneva@Proverbs:1:11 @ If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for (note:)He speaks not only of the shedding of blood with hand, but of all crafty practises which tend to the detriment of our neighbour.(:note) blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

geneva@Proverbs:1:12 @ Let us swallow them up alive as the (note:)As the grave is never satisfied, so the malice of the wicked and their cruelty has no end.(:note) grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

geneva@Proverbs:1:13 @ We shall finde all precious riches, and fill our houses with spoyle:

geneva@Proverbs:1:14 @ Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one (note:)He shows how the wicked are allured to join together, because they have everyone part of the spoil of the innocent.(:note) purse:

geneva@Proverbs:1:15 @ My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their (note:)That is, have nothing at all to do with them.(:note) path:

geneva@Proverbs:1:16 @ For their feete runne to euill, & make haste to shed blood.

geneva@Proverbs:1:17 @ Certainely as without cause the net is spred before the eyes of all that hath wing:

geneva@Proverbs:1:18 @ And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for (note:)He shows that there is no reason to move these wicked to spoil the innocent, aside from their malice and cruelty.(:note) their [own] lives.

geneva@Proverbs:1:19 @ So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; [which] taketh away (note:)By which he concludes that the covetous man is a murderer.(:note) the life of the owners thereof.

geneva@Proverbs:1:20 @

geneva@Proverbs:1:21 @ She calleth in the hye streete, among the prease in the entrings of the gates, and vttereth her wordes in the citie, saying,

geneva@Proverbs:1:22 @ How long, ye (note:)Wisdom reproves three kinds of men, the foolish or simple who err out of ignorance, the mockers who cannot stand to be taught, and the fools who are drowned in worldly lusts and hate the knowledge of godliness.(:note) simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

geneva@Proverbs:1:23 @ (Turne you at my correction: loe, I will powre out my mind vnto you, and make you vnderstand my wordes)

geneva@Proverbs:1:24 @ Because I haue called, & ye refused: I haue stretched out mine hand, & none woulde regarde.

geneva@Proverbs:1:25 @ But ye haue despised all my counsell, and would none of my correction.

geneva@Proverbs:1:26 @ I also will (note:)This is spoken according to our capacity signifying that the wicked, who mock and jest at God's word, will have the just reward of their mocking.(:note) laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

geneva@Proverbs:1:27 @ When (note:)That is, your destruction, which you feared.(:note) your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

geneva@Proverbs:1:28 @ Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not (note:)Because they sought not with an affection to God, but for ease of their own grief.(:note) find me:

geneva@Proverbs:1:29 @ Because they hated knowledge, and did not chuse the feare of the Lord.

geneva@Proverbs:1:30 @ They would none of my counsel: they (note:)Showing that without faith and obedience, we cannot call on God correctly.(:note) despised all my reproof.

geneva@Proverbs:1:31 @ Therefore shall they eat of the (note:)They will feel what convenience their wicked life will give them.(:note) fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

geneva@Proverbs:1:32 @ For (note:)That is, the prosperity and sensuality in which they delight.(:note) the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

geneva@Proverbs:1:33 @ But he that obeyeth me, shall dwell safely, and be quiet from feare of euill.

geneva@Proverbs:2:1 @ My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and (note:)That is, keep them in your heart.(:note) hide my commandments with thee;

geneva@Proverbs:2:2 @ So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, [and] apply (note:)If you give yourself to the true knowledge of God without hypocrisy.(:note) thine heart to understanding;

geneva@Proverbs:2:3 @ Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, [and] (note:)Meaning that we must seek the knowledge of God with care and diligence.(:note) liftest up thy voice for understanding;

geneva@Proverbs:2:4 @ If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as [for] hid (note:)Showing that no labour must be spared.(:note) treasures;

geneva@Proverbs:2:5 @ Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the (note:)This (he says) is the true wisdom to know and fear God.(:note) knowledge of God.

geneva@Proverbs:2:6 @ For the Lorde giueth wisdome, out of his mouth commeth knowledge and vnderstanding.

geneva@Proverbs:2:7 @ He preserueth the state of the righteous: he is a shielde to them that walke vprightly,

geneva@Proverbs:2:8 @ That they may keepe the wayes of iudgement: and he preserueth the way of his Saintes)

geneva@Proverbs:2:9 @ Then shalt thou vnderstand righteousnes, and iudgement, and equitie, and euery good path.

geneva@Proverbs:2:10 @ When wisdome entreth into thine heart, and knowledge deliteth thy soule,

geneva@Proverbs:2:11 @

geneva@Proverbs:2:12 @ And deliuer thee from the euill way, and from the man that speaketh froward things,

geneva@Proverbs:2:13 @ Who leave the (note:)That is, the word of God, which is the only light, to follow their own fantasies which are darkness.(:note) paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

geneva@Proverbs:2:14 @ Who rejoice to do evil, [and] delight (note:)When they see any given to evil as they are.(:note) in the frowardness of the wicked;

geneva@Proverbs:2:15 @ Whose wayes are crooked and they are lewde in their paths.

geneva@Proverbs:2:16 @ To deliver thee from the strange (note:)Meaning, the wisdom which is the word of God, will preserve us from all vices: naming this vice of whoredom to which man is most prone.(:note) woman, [even] from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words;

geneva@Proverbs:2:17 @ Which forsaketh the (note:)That is, her husband, who is her head and guide to govern her, from whom she ought not to depart, but remain in his subjection.(:note) guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

geneva@Proverbs:2:18 @ For her (note:)Her acquaintance with her spirits and they that haunt her.(:note) house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto To them who are dead in body and soul. the dead.

geneva@Proverbs:2:19 @ All they that goe vnto her, returne not againe, neither take they holde of the wayes of life.

geneva@Proverbs:2:20 @ Therefore walke thou in the way of good men, and keepe the wayes of the righteous.

geneva@Proverbs:2:21 @ For the upright shall dwell in the (note:)They will enjoy the temporal and spiritual promises of God, as the wicked will be void of them.(:note) land, and the perfect shall remain in it.

geneva@Proverbs:2:22 @ But the wicked shalbe cut off from ye earth, and the transgressours shalbe rooted out of it.

geneva@Proverbs:3:1 @ My sonne, forget not thou my Lawe, but let thine heart keepe my commandements.

geneva@Proverbs:3:2 @ For length of (note:)Long life is the blessing of God which he gives to his, so far as it is expedient for them.(:note) days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.

geneva@Proverbs:3:3 @ Let not (note:)By mercy and truth he means the commandments of the first and second table, or else the mercy and faithfulness that we ought to use toward our neighbours.(:note) mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy Keep them as a precious jewel. neck; write them upon the table of thine Have them ever in remembrance. heart:

geneva@Proverbs:3:4 @ So shalt thou finde fauour and good vnderstanding in the sight of God and man.

geneva@Proverbs:3:5 @ Trust in the Lorde with all thine heart, and leane not vnto thine owne wisdome.

geneva@Proverbs:3:6 @ In all thy wayes acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy wayes.

geneva@Proverbs:3:7 @ Be not wise in thine owne eyes: but feare the Lord, and depart from euill.

geneva@Proverbs:3:8 @ It shall be health to thy (note:)By this part he comprehends the whole body, as by health he means all the benefits promised in the law both corporal and spiritual.(:note) navel, and marrow to thy bones.

geneva@Proverbs:3:9 @

geneva@Proverbs:3:10 @ So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall (note:)For the faithful distributor God gives in greater abundance.(:note) burst out with new wine.

geneva@Proverbs:3:11 @ My sonne, refuse not the chastening of the Lord, neither be grieued with his correction.

geneva@Proverbs:3:12 @ For the Lord correcteth him, whome he loueth, euen as the father doeth the childe in whom he deliteth.

geneva@Proverbs:3:13 @ Blessed is the man that findeth wisedome, and the man that getteth vnderstanding.

geneva@Proverbs:3:14 @ For the marchandise thereof is better then the marchandise of siluer, and the gaine thereof is better then golde.

geneva@Proverbs:3:15 @ It is more precious then pearles: and all things that thou canst desire, are not to be compared vnto her.

geneva@Proverbs:3:16 @ Length of days [is] in her right hand; (note:)Meaning, that he seeks wisdom, that is, suffers himself to be governed by the Word of God, will have all prosperity both corporal and spiritual.(:note) [and] in her left hand riches and honour.

geneva@Proverbs:3:17 @ Her wayes are wayes of pleasure, and all her pathes prosperitie.

geneva@Proverbs:3:18 @ She [is] a tree (note:)Which brings forth such fruit that they who eat of it have life and he alludes to the tree of life in paradise.(:note) of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy [is every one] that retaineth her.

geneva@Proverbs:3:19 @ The LORD by wisdom hath (note:)By this he shows that this wisdom of which he speaks is everlasting, because it was before all creatures and that all things even the whole world were made by it.(:note) founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.

geneva@Proverbs:3:20 @ By his knowledge the depthes are broken vp, and the cloudes droppe downe the dewe.

geneva@Proverbs:3:21 @ My sonne, let not these things depart from thine eyes, but obserue wisdome, and counsell.

geneva@Proverbs:3:22 @ So they shalbe life to thy soule, and grace vnto thy necke.

geneva@Proverbs:3:23 @ Then shalt thou walke safely by thy way: and thy foote shall not stumble.

geneva@Proverbs:3:24 @ If thou sleepest, thou shalt not bee afraide, and when thou sleepest, thy sleepe shalbe sweete.

geneva@Proverbs:3:25 @

geneva@Proverbs:3:26 @ For the Lorde shall be for thine assurance, and shall preserue thy foote from taking.

geneva@Proverbs:3:27 @ Withhold not good from (note:)Not only from them to whom the possession belongs but also you shall not keep it from them who have need of the use of it.(:note) them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do [it].

geneva@Proverbs:3:28 @ Say not vnto thy neighbour, Go and come againe, and to morow wil I giue thee, if thou now haue it.

geneva@Proverbs:3:29 @ Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth (note:)That is, puts his trust in you.(:note) securely by thee.

geneva@Proverbs:3:30 @ Striue not with a man causelesse, when he hath done thee no harme.

geneva@Proverbs:3:31 @

geneva@Proverbs:3:32 @ For the froward [is] abomination to the LORD: but his (note:)That is, his covenant and fatherly affection which is hid and secret from the world.(:note) secret [is] with the righteous.

geneva@Proverbs:3:33 @ The curse of the Lorde is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the righteous.

geneva@Proverbs:3:34 @ Surely (note:)He will show by his plagues that their scorn will turn to their own destruction, (Pro_1:26).(:note) he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly.

geneva@Proverbs:3:35 @ The wise shall inherite glorie: but fooles dishonour, though they be exalted.

geneva@Proverbs:4:1 @ Hear, ye children, the instruction of a (note:)He speaks this as a preacher and minister which is as a father to the people, (Pro_2:8).(:note) father, and attend to know understanding.

geneva@Proverbs:4:2 @ For I doe giue you a good doctrine: therefore forsake yee not my lawe.

geneva@Proverbs:4:3 @ For I was my fathers sonne, tender and deare in the sight of my mother,

geneva@Proverbs:4:4 @ He (note:)Meaning, David his father.(:note) taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.

geneva@Proverbs:4:5 @ Get wisedom: get vnderstading: forget not, neither decline from the woordes of my mouth.

geneva@Proverbs:4:6 @ Forsake her not, and shee shall keepe thee: loue her and shee shall preserue thee.

geneva@Proverbs:4:7 @

geneva@Proverbs:4:8 @ Exalt her, and she shall exalt thee: she shall bring thee to honour, if thou embrace her.

geneva@Proverbs:4:9 @ She shal giue a comely ornamet vnto thine head, yea, she shal giue thee a crowne of glorie.

geneva@Proverbs:4:10 @ Heare, my sonne, & receiue my wordes, and the yeeres of thy life shalbe many.

geneva@Proverbs:4:11 @ I have (note:)Solomon declares what care his father had to bring him up in the true fear of God: for this was David's protest.(:note) taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.

geneva@Proverbs:4:12 @ When thou goest, thy steps shall not be (note:)You will walk at liberty without offence.(:note) straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.

geneva@Proverbs:4:13 @ Take holde of instruction, and leaue not: keepe her, for shee is thy life.

geneva@Proverbs:4:14 @ Enter not into the way of the wicked, and walke not in the way of euill men.

geneva@Proverbs:4:15 @ Auoide it, and goe not by it: turne from it, and passe by.

geneva@Proverbs:4:16 @ For they (note:)Meaning that to do evil is more proper and natural to the wicked than to sleep, eat or drink.(:note) sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause [some] to fall.

geneva@Proverbs:4:17 @ For they eat the bread of (note:)Gotten my wicked means and cruel oppression.(:note) wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

geneva@Proverbs:4:18 @ But the path of the just [is] as the shining light, that (note:)Signifying that the godly increase daily in knowledge and perfection, till they come to full persecution, which is when the are joined to their head in the heavens.(:note) shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

geneva@Proverbs:4:19 @ The way of the wicked is as the darkenes: they knowe not wherein they shall fall.

geneva@Proverbs:4:20 @ My sonne, hearken vnto my wordes, incline thine eare vnto my sayings.

geneva@Proverbs:4:21 @ Let them not depart from thine eyes, but keepe them in the middes of thine heart.

geneva@Proverbs:4:22 @ For they [are] life unto those that find them, and health to all their (note:)That is, they will have health of body: under which all other blessings promised in the law are contained.(:note) flesh.

geneva@Proverbs:4:23 @ Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it [are] the issues of (note:)For as the heart is either pure or corrupt, so is the whole course of man's life.(:note) life.

geneva@Proverbs:4:24 @ Put away from thee a froward mouth, and put wicked lippes farre from thee.

geneva@Proverbs:4:25 @ Let thine eyes beholde the right, and let thine eyeliddes direct thy way before thee.

geneva@Proverbs:4:26 @

geneva@Proverbs:4:27 @ Turne not to the right hande, nor to the left, but remooue thy foote from euill.

geneva@Proverbs:5:1 @ My sonne, hearken vnto my wisedome, & incline thine eare vnto my knowledge.

geneva@Proverbs:5:2 @ That thou maiest regarde counsell, and thy lippes obserue knowledge.

geneva@Proverbs:5:3 @ For the lips (note:)That is, a harlot who gives herself to someone other than her husband.(:note) of a strange woman drop [as] an honeycomb, and her mouth [is] smoother than By oil and honey he means flattering and crafty enticements. oil:

geneva@Proverbs:5:4 @ But the end of her is bitter as wormewood, and sharpe as a two edged sworde.

geneva@Proverbs:5:5 @ Her (note:)All her doings lead to destruction.(:note) feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

geneva@Proverbs:5:6 @ Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are (note:)She has always new means to allure to wickedness.(:note) moveable, [that] thou canst not know [them].

geneva@Proverbs:5:7 @ Heare yee me nowe therefore, O children, and depart not from the wordes of my mouth.

geneva@Proverbs:5:8 @ Keepe thy way farre from her, and come not neere the doore of her house,

geneva@Proverbs:5:9 @ Lest thou give thine (note:)That is, your strength and goods to her who will have no pity on you as is read of Samson and the prodigal son.(:note) honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:

geneva@Proverbs:5:10 @ Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy (note:)The goods gotten by your travel.(:note) labours [be] in the house of a stranger;

geneva@Proverbs:5:11 @ And thou mourne at thine end, (when thou hast consumed thy flesh and thy bodie)

geneva@Proverbs:5:12 @ And say, How haue I hated instruction, and mine heart despised correction!

geneva@Proverbs:5:13 @ And haue not obeied the voyce of them that taught mee, nor enclined mine eare to them that instructed me!

geneva@Proverbs:5:14 @ I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and (note:)Although I was faithfully instructed in the truth, yet I almost fell to utter shame and destruction nonetheless, by good bringing up in the assembly of the godly.(:note) assembly.

geneva@Proverbs:5:15 @ Drink waters out of (note:)He teaches us sobriety exhorting us to live of our own labours and to be beneficial to the godly who want.(:note) thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

geneva@Proverbs:5:16 @ Let thy fountaines flow foorth, and the riuers of waters in the streetes.

geneva@Proverbs:5:17 @ Let them be only (note:)Distribute them not to the wicked and infidels, but reserve them for yourself, your family and them who are of the household of faith.(:note) thine own, and not strangers' with thee.

geneva@Proverbs:5:18 @ Let thy (note:)Your children who will come from you in great abundance showing that God blesses marriage and curses whoredom.(:note) fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy Who you married in your youth. youth.

geneva@Proverbs:5:19 @ Let her be as the louing hinde and pleasant roe: let her brests satisfie thee at all times, and delite in her loue continually.

geneva@Proverbs:5:20 @ For why shouldest thou delite, my sonne, in a strange woman, or embrace the bosome of a stranger?

geneva@Proverbs:5:21 @ For the ways of man [are] before the (note:)He declares that unless a man joins to his wife both in heart and in outward conversation, he will not escape the judgments of God.(:note) eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.

geneva@Proverbs:5:22 @ His owne iniquities shall take the wicked himselfe, and he shall be holden with the cordes of his owne sinne.

geneva@Proverbs:5:23 @ He shall (note:)Because he will not give ear to God's word and be admonished.(:note) die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

geneva@Proverbs:6:1 @ My sonne, if thou be surety for thy neighbour, and hast striken hands with the stranger,