Proverbs 12:25

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Proverbs 12:25

MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 12:25HEAVINESS OF HEART AND ITS CUREI. The causes of “heaviness of heart” are many and various. It may arise, 1. From great bodily pain. The human mind and the human body act and re-act upon each other. The mind or spirit may be made heavy by physical pain, as the body may be brought under the dominion of disease by mental suffering. It is only when a more powerful influence comes into operation that pain of body is prevented from exercising a depressing influence... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Proverbs 12:1-28

Chapter 12Whoso loves instruction loves knowledge: but he who hates reproof is brutish ( Proverbs 12:1 ).And there's a lot in the Proverbs about instructing a wise man and he will love you. Instruct a fool and he will hate you. And a fool hateth instruction, and so forth. And the value of loving instruction, receiving instruction.A good man obtains favor of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will be condemned by God. A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Proverbs 12:1-28

Proverbs 12:4 . A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband, as illustrated at large in chap. 31. Proverbs 12:9 . He that is despised, and hath a servant. There are various comments here. He that is despised, as a plebeian, and hath a servant; others say, and hath many servants, is better than the baron lost in poverty and debts. In the east, the rank of a man is known, not so much by the splendour of his carriage, as by the number of footmen which attend him. Absalom had fifty men to... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 12:25

Proverbs 12:25Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.The saddening and the succouringI. The saddening in life. There is a soul-crushing sadness here.1. Personal affliction that maketh the heart stoop.2. Social affliction that maketh the heart stoop.II. The succouring in life. “A good word maketh it glad.”1. What are good words?(1) True words;(2) kind words;(3) suitable words.2. Where are good words? The gospel is that word. Words about providence, about... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 12:25

Pro 12:25 Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad. Ver. 25. Heaviness in the heart of a man maketh it stoop. ] Grief is like lead to the soul, - heavy and cold; it sinks downward, and carries the soul with it; Aιφα γαρ εν κακοτητι βροτοι καταγηρασκουσι . a How decrepit was David grown with much grief at seventy years of age. The like we may say of Jacob, who "attained not to the days of the years of the life of his fathers," Gen 47:9 as being a man of... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Proverbs 12:25

Heaviness: Proverbs 14:10, Proverbs 15:13, Proverbs 15:15, Proverbs 15:23, Proverbs 17:22, Proverbs 18:14, Nehemiah 2:1, Nehemiah 2:2, Psalms 38:6, Psalms 42:11, Mark 14:33, Mark 14:34 but: Proverbs 12:18, Proverbs 15:23, Proverbs 16:24, Proverbs 25:11, Proverbs 27:9, Isaiah 50:4, Zechariah 1:13, 2 Corinthians 2:4-Judges : Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 32:8 - upon the words Jeremiah 52:32 - kindly unto him Philippians 2:26 - full read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Proverbs 12:25

Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.A good word — A compassionate or encouraging word. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 12:25

25. Heaviness in the heart Trouble, anxiety, sorrow. Maketh it stoop Bows it down, as if oppressed by a burden. A good word A kind or cheering word. Some grammatical anomalies are noticed here by the critics, but they do not affect the sense. On latter clause compare Proverbs 25:11; Isaiah 50:4; Zechariah 1:13; 2 Corinthians 2:4-7. read more

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