21The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?
For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.
Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-21)We are here taught how to value men, not by their wealth and preferment in the world, but by their virtue. I. Good men are good for something. Though they may be poor and low in the world, and may not have power and riches to do good with, yet, as long as they have a mouth to speak, that will make them valuable and useful, and upon that account we must honour those that fear the Lord, because out…
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