11The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-12)Solomon is here drawing towards a close, and is loth to part till he has gained his point, and prevailed with his hearers, with his readers, to seek for that satisfaction in God only and in their duty to him which they can never find in the creature. I. He repeats his text (Eccl. 12:8), 1. As that which he had fully demonstrated the truth of, and so made good his undertaking in this sermon, wherei…
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