Teks -- Proverbs 1:19 (NET)

1:19 Such are the ways of all who gain profit unjustly; it takes away the life of those who obtain it!

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Wesley: Pro 1:19 - Greedy

That seeks gain by wicked practices.

JFB: Pro 1:17-19

Men warned ought to escape danger as birds instinctively avoid visibly spread nets. But stupid sinners rush to their own ruin (Psa 9:16), and, greedy of gain, succeed in the very schemes which destroy them (1Ti 6:10), not only failing to catch others, but procuring their own destruction.|| 16421||1||14||0||Some interpreters regard this address as the language of the Son of God under the name of Wisdom (compare Luk 11:49). Others think that wisdom, as the divine attribute specially employed in acts of counsel and admonition, is here personified, and represents God. In either case the address is a most solemn and divine admonition, whose matter and spirit are eminently evangelical and impressive (see on Pro 8:1).

JFB: Pro 1:17-19 - Wisdom

Literally, "Wisdoms," the plural used either because of the unusual sense, or as indicative of the great excellency of wisdom (compare Pro 9:1).

JFB: Pro 1:17-19 - streets

Or most public places, not secretly.

Clarke: Pro 1:19 - Which taketh away the life

Which taketh away the life - A covetous man is in effect, and in the sight of God, a murderer; he wishes to get all the gain that can accrue to any or all who are in the same business that he follows - no matter to him how many families starve in consequence. This is the very case with him who sets up shop after shop in different parts of the same town or neighborhood, in which he carries on the same business, and endeavors to undersell others in the same trade, that he may get all into his own hand.

TSK: Pro 1:19 - every // taketh

every : Pro 15:27, Pro 23:3, Pro 23:4; 2Sa 18:11-13; 2Ki 5:20-27; Jer 22:17-19; Mic 2:1-3; Mic 3:10-12; Hab 2:9; Act 8:19, Act 8:20; 1Ti 3:3, 1Ti 6:9, 1Ti 6:10; Jam 5:1-4; 2Pe 2:3, 2Pe 2:14-16

taketh : Job 31:39; Ecc 5:13

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Poole: Pro 1:19 - So // are the ways // That is greedy of pain // Taketh away the lives of the owners thereof

So as is expressed both in the foregoing and following words,

are the ways the actions and courses, which are so in the tendency and event of them.

That is greedy of pain that seeks gain by unrighteous and wicked practices. Which ; either which greediness ; or rather, which gain , by comparing the last words.

Taketh away the lives of the owners thereof brings sudden and violent death upon those who had made themselves masters and possessors of such gain.

Haydock: Pro 1:19 - Possessors

Possessors. Of money. (Calmet) ---

While they attempt to invade another's property, they ruin themselves, and come to the gallows. (Haydock)

Gill: Pro 1:19 - So are the ways of everyone that is greedy of gain // which taketh away the life of the owners thereof

So are the ways of everyone that is greedy of gain,.... That is set upon getting riches in an unlawful way, by robberies and murder; his ways will end in the loss of his own blood and life, and in the loss of his immortal soul; this will be what his wicked ways and course of life will bring him to, and what will his gain profit him then? it would be of no use and service to him could he have gained the whole world;

which taketh away the life of the owners thereof: or who, even every one of those that are greedy of gain, and will be rich at any rate; such stick not to take away the life of the proper owners of that gain, or money they are greedy of, in order to get it into their own possession; and such wicked practices cannot fail of meeting with a just recompence of reward: or "which" covetous gain, or gain gotten in such a wicked manner, will be the cause of the life of the injurious masters and wrong possessors of it being taken away from them, either by the hand of the civil magistrate, or by God himself. These sins of robbery and murder are particularly instanced in, not only because other sins lead unto them, as sabbath breaking, drunkenness, and lewdness, and issue in temporal and eternal ruin; but because they were very common among the Jews at the time that Wisdom, or Christ, was here on earth: to which time the whole passage refers, as appears from the following verses; and that those sins were frequent then is manifest both from Scripture; see Mat 27:38; and from the confessions of the Jews, who say ^z that forty years before the destruction of the temple the sanhedrim were obliged to remove from place to place, because that murderers increased, and they could not judge and condemn them, for fear of being murdered themselves; and it was because of this great increase they were obliged to stop the beheading of the red heifer ^a.