Latest Commentaries

Open rebuke from a friend serves love better than affection that stays hidden.

Wrath and anger are devastating, but jealousy is more dangerous still.

2 Kings 17:1-5 records how Hoshea becomes Israel’s last king, but his reign continues the nation’s pattern of evil before the LORD. Assyria tightens its grip on Israel as Hoshea rebels against the Assyrian king, leading to Samaria’s siege and the beginning of Israel’s downfall.

Stones and sand are heavy, but the provocation of a fool is heavier than both.

Let another man's mouth praise you, ideally a stranger's mouth rather than your own.

Do not boast about tomorrow because no man knows what a day will bring forth.

A lying tongue hates those it crushes, and a flattering mouth works ruin on the one flattered and the flatterer.

The man who digs a pit falls into it, and the stone rolled uphill rolls back on the one who pushed it.

Saul successfully united Israel’s military forces and delivered them from external threats, demonstrating both courage and effectiveness as a leader.

Saul nearly dooms Jonathan under a rash vow, but God’s people intervene, preserving a righteous warrior and demonstrating compassion over rigid adherence to an oath.

His hatred is covered for a time, but his wickedness will be revealed before the assembly.

Do not believe his gracious speech, for seven abominations are stored in his heart.

The man who hates uses gracious lips as a disguise while storing deceit in his heart.

Eloquent lips covering a wicked heart resemble cheap clay glazed with silver dross.

The whisperer's words are tasty morsels that lodge deep in the listener's interior.

Meddling in another man's quarrel is grabbing a strange dog by the ears.

A man wise in his own eyes is in worse shape than the obvious fool.

A fool returning to his folly is like a dog returning to its vomit, repeating what already harmed him.

A proverb in a fool's mouth is a thorn in the hand of a drunkard, swung without awareness of what it cuts.

Giving honor to a fool ruins the mechanism the way binding a stone permanently into a sling ruins the weapon.