Proverbs 27:14
Whoever blesses his neighbor with a grand voice, rising in the night, shall be like one who curses.
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In Context
15A roof leaking on a cold day, and an argumentative woman, are comparable.
Cross References
2 Samuel 15:2And rising up in the morning, Absalom was standing beside the entrance of the gate. And when there was any man who had a dispute that might go before the king’s judgment, Absalom would call him to him, and would say, “Which city are you from?” And responding, he would say, “I am your servant, from a certain tribe of Israel.”
2 Samuel 17:7And Hushai said to Absalom, “The counsel that Ahithophel has given at this time is not good.”
1 Kings 22:13Then truly, the messenger who had gone to summon Micaiah spoke to him, saying: “Behold, the words of the prophets, as if with one mouth, are predicting good to the king. Therefore, let your word be like theirs, and speak what is good.”
Acts 12:22Then the people were crying out, “The voice of a god, and not of a man!”
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 27:14
13 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman. This also we had before, ch. xx. 16 . 1. It shows who those are that are hastening to poverty, those that have so little consideration as to be bound for every body that will ask them and those that are given to women. Such as these will take up money as far as ever their credit will go, but they will certainly cheat their creditors at last, nay, they are cheating them all along. An honest man may be made a beggar, but… Read the whole commentary →