--- title: "Proverbs 10 - Study King James Bible with keil and delitzsch old testament commentary" description: "Read Proverbs 10 with keil and delitzsch old testament commentary commentary. 1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. 2 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: bu" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/keil-and-delitzsch-old-testament-commentary/proverbs/10" --- [ Read](/kjv/proverbs/10)[ Commentary](/study/proverbs/10)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/proverbs/10) Audio 1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son *is* the heaviness of his mother. 2 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death. 3 The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.* 4 He becometh poor that dealeth *with* a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich. 5 He that gathereth in summer *is* a wise son: *but* he that sleepeth in harvest *is* a son that causeth shame. 6 Blessings *are* upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. 7 The memory of the just *is* blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot. 8 The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.** 9 He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known. 10 He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.* 11 The mouth of a righteous *man is* a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. 12 Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins. 13 In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod *is* for the back of him that is void of understanding.* 14 Wise *men* lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish *is* near destruction. 15 The rich man’s wealth *is* his strong city: the destruction of the poor *is* their poverty. 16 The labour of the righteous *tendeth* to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin. 17 He *is in* the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.* 18 He that hideth hatred *with* lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, *is* a fool. 19 In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips *is* wise. 20 The tongue of the just *is as* choice silver: the heart of the wicked *is* little worth. 21 The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.* 22 The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it. 23 *It is* as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom. 24 The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted. 25 As the whirlwind passeth, so *is* the wicked no *more:* but the righteous *is* an everlasting foundation. 26 As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so *is* the sluggard to them that send him. 27 The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.* 28 The hope of the righteous *shall be* gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish. 29 The way of the LORD *is* strength to the upright: but destruction *shall be* to the workers of iniquity. 30 The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth. 31 The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out. 32 The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked *speaketh* frowardness.* [Proverbs 9](/study/proverbs/9) [Proverbs 11](/study/proverbs/11) ## Commentary To verse 1 In the introduction, chap. 1-9, there are larger sections of interconnected thoughts having one common aim.[Even in Prov 6:1-19](/kjv/-even-in-prov/6/1-19) there are manifestly three proverbial discourses distinguished from one another, shorter indeed, yet containing one fundamental thought. Such proverbs as are primarily designed to form one completed little whole of themselves, are not here to be met with. On the contrary, the Solomonic collection which now follows consists of pure distichs, for the most part antithetical, but at the same time going over all the forms of the technical proverb, as we have already shown; *vid*., p. 16. Accordingly the exposition must from this point onward renounce reproduced combinations of thought. The succession of proverbs here is nevertheless not one that is purely accidental or without thought; it is more than a happy accident when three of the same character stand together; the collector has connected together proverb with proverb according to certain common characteristics (Bertheau). And yet more than that: the mass separates itself into groups, not merely succeeding one another, but because a certain connection of ideas connects together a number of proverbs, in such a way that the succession is broken, and a new point of departure is arrived at (Hitzig). There is no comprehensive plan, such as Oetinger in his summary view of its contents supposes; the progressive unfolding follows no systematic scheme, but continuously wells forth. But that the editor, whom we take also to be the arranger of the contents of the book, did not throw them together by good chance, but in placing them together was guided by certain reasons, the very first proverb here shows, for it is chosen in conformity with the design of this book, which is specially dedicated to youth: 1 A wise son maketh glad his father; A foolish son is his mother's grief. One sees here quite distinctly (cf. [Hosea 13:13](/kjv/hosea/13/13)) that חכם (from חכם , properly to be thick, stout, solid, as πυκνός = σοφός ) is primarily a practical and ethical conception. Similar proverbs are found further on, but consisting of synonymous parallel members, in which either the father both times represents the parents, as [Proverbs 17:21](/kjv/proverbs/17/21); [Proverbs 23:24](/kjv/proverbs/23/24), or father and mother are separated, each being named in different members, as [Proverbs 17:25](/kjv/proverbs/17/25); [Proverbs 23:25](/kjv/proverbs/23/25), and particularly [Proverbs 15:20](/kjv/proverbs/15/20), where 20a = 1a of the above proverb. It is incorrect to say, with Hitzig, that this contrast draws the division after it: the division lies nearer in the synonymous distichs, and is there less liable to be misunderstood than in the antithetic. Thus, from this proverb before us, it might be concluded that grief on account of a befooled son going astray in bypaths, and not coming to the right way, falls principally on the mother, as (Sir. 3:9) is often the case in unfortunate marriages. The idea of the parents is in this way only separated, and the two members stand in suppletive interchangeable relationship. ישׂמּח is the middle of the clause, and is the usual form in connection; ישׂמּח is the pausal form. תּוּגה , from הוגה ( יגה ), has *pass. û*, as תּורה , *act. ô*. “The expression of the *pred*. 1b is like [Proverbs 3:17](/kjv/proverbs/3/17); [Proverbs 8:6](/kjv/proverbs/8/6); [Proverbs 10:14](/kjv/proverbs/10/14).; cf. *e.g.*, Arab. âlastaḳṣa furkat , oversharpening is dividing, *i.e.*, effects it inquiries become or lead to separation (cf. our proverb, *Allzuscharf macht scharig* = too much sharpening makes full of notches); Burckhardt, Sprüchw. 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