Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible

Verses 1–8 When men become eminent for things as to which they have had few advantages, they should be more deeply sensible that ...

Those who, under troubles and temptations, abound in fervent prayer, shall in due season abound in grateful praise, which is the ...

And when man returns to his earth, in that very day all his plans and designs vanish and are gone: what then comes of expectatio ...

The church, like Jerusalem of old, built up and preserved by the wisdom, power, and goodness of God, is exhorted to praise him f ...

Chapter 149 Chapter Outline Joy to all the people of God. (1–5) Terror to their enemies. (6–9) Verses 1–5 New mercies continuall ...

praise our God and Saviour for it. We need not care to know what instruments of music are mentioned. Hereby is meant that in ser ...

Proverbs The subject of this book may be thus stated by an enlargement on the opening verses. 1. The Proverbs of Solomon, the so ...

Wicked people are zealous in seducing others into the paths of the destroyer: sinners love company in sin. But they have so much ...

Those who earnestly seek heavenly wisdom, will never complain that they have lost their labour; and the freeness of the gift doe ...

not mercy and truth forsake thee; God's mercy in promising, and his truth in performing: live up to them, keep up thine interest ...

and bearing evils, if possible, rather than seeking redress by law. It will be found there is little got by striving. Let us not ...

straight forward, and walking by the rule of God's word, treading in the steps of our Lord and Master. Lord, forgive the past, a ...

Chapter 6 Chapter Outline Cautions against rash suretiship. (1–5) A rebuke to slothfulness. (6–11) Seven things hateful to God. ...

Verses 20–35 The word of God has something to say to us upon all occasions. Let not faithful reproofs ever make us uneasy. When ...

delights sin can offer, one hour of the anguish and tribulation that must follow, would far outweigh them. Chapter 8 Chapter Out ...

promises, believers have goods laid up, not for days and years, but for eternity; her fruit therefore is better than gold. Verse ...

Verses 13–18 How diligent the tempter is, to seduce unwary souls into sin! Carnal, sensual pleasure, stupifies conscience, and p ...

Verse 6 Abundance of blessings shall abide on good men; real blessings. Verse 7 Both the just and the wicked must die; but betwe ...

Verse 16 Perhaps a righteous man has no more than what he works hard for, but that labour tends to life. Verse 17 The traveller ...

As vinegar sets the teeth on edge, and as the smoke causes the eyes to smart, so the sluggard vexes his employer. Verses 27 , 28 ...