Proverbs 19:6-16

6 Many try to win the kindness of a generous person, and everyone is a friend to a person who gives gifts.

7 The entire family of a poor person hates him. How much more do his friends keep their distance from him! When he chases them with words, they are gone.

8 A person who gains sense loves himself. One who guards understanding finds something good.

9 A lying witness will not go unpunished. One who tells lies will die.

10 Luxury does not fit a fool, much less a slave ruling princes.

11 A person with good sense is patient, and it is to his credit that he overlooks an offense.

12 The rage of a king is like the roar of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

13 A foolish son ruins his father, and a quarreling woman is like constantly dripping water.

14 Home and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a sensible wife comes from the LORD.

15 Laziness throws one into a deep sleep, and an idle person will go hungry.

16 Whoever obeys the law preserves his life, [but] whoever despises the LORD's ways will be put to death.

Proverbs 19:6-16 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 KINGS 8

This chapter gives an account of the introduction of the ark into the temple, 1Ki 8:1-9 of the glory of the Lord filling it, 1Ki 8:10,11 of a speech Solomon made to the people concerning the building of the temple, and how he came to be engaged in it, 1Ki 8:12-21, of a prayer of his he put up on this occasion, requesting, that what supplications soever were made at any time, or on any account, by Israelites or strangers, might be accepted by the Lord, 1Ki 8:22-53, and of his blessing the people of Israel at the close of it, with some useful exhortations, 1Ki 8:54-61, and of the great number of sacrifices offered up by him, and the feast he made for the people, upon which he dismissed them, 1Ki 8:62-66.