Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Proverbs 14:11

The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.

The house; their dwelling and family.

The tabernacle; which is a weak, and poor, and unstable thing, soon reared up, and soon taken down, and is here opposed to the large, and strong, and magnificent house of wicked men.

Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole

11. (Compare Pr12:7). The contrast of the whole is enhanced by that of houseand tabernacle, a permanent and a temporary dwelling.

Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

The house of the wicked shall be overthrown,…. Houses built to perpetuate their names and eternize their memory; and which, though built high and stately, strong and firm, yet by one accident or another shall come to ruin, when they imagined they would continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations, Ps 49:11; or their families shall become extinct, none to be their heirs and inherit their estates, and transmit their name to posterity; or the substance of their house, their riches and wealth, especially that gotten dishonestly, shall waste away: and in a spiritual sense the house or hope of such, as to eternal salvation, being built on the sand, or something of their own, their external duties, or an outward profession of religion, shall not stand; though they lean upon it and would hold it fast, but it shall fall, and great shall be the fall of it; and particularly the apostate church of Rome, that synagogue of Satan, that habitation of devils, that hold of every foul spirit, and cage of every unclean bird, shall be overthrown with an utter overthrow, shall fall and never rise more, Re 18:2;

but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish: their low and mean cottages, which are put up quickly, like tents movable from place to place, yet shall be established, Pr 15:25; their families shall become numerous like a flock of sheep, Ps 107:41; and their substance increase; they shall flourish in worldly things and grow rich, or however in spirituals, in girls and grace; shall flourish in the courts of the Lord, and tabernacles of the most High, like palm trees and cedars; for the allusion is to the flourishing of trees, Ps 92:13; especially they will be in such flourishing circumstances in the latter day, when antichrist will be destroyed, and when the tabernacle of God will be with men, Ps 72:8.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

11 The house of the wicked is overthrown;

But the tent of the upright flourishes.

In the cogn. proverb, Pro 12:7, line 2 begins with , but here the apparently firmly-founded house is assigned to the godless, and on the contrary the tent, easily destroyed, and not set up under the delusion of lasting for ever, is assigned to the righteous. While the former is swept away without leaving a trace behind (Isa 14:23), the latter has blossoms and shoots ( as inwardly transitive, like Job 14:9; Psa 92:14); the household of such remains not only preserved in the same state, but in a prosperous, happy manner it goes forward and upward.

Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament

      11 The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.

      Note, 1. Sin is the ruin of great families: The house of the wicked, though built ever so strong and high, shall be overthrown, shall be brought to poverty and disgrace, and at length be extinct. His hope for heaven, the house on which he leans, shall not stand, but fail in the storm; the deluge that comes will sweep it away. 2. Righteousness is the rise and stability even of mean families: Even the tabernacle of the upright, though movable and despicable as a tent, shall flourish, in outward prosperity if Infinite Wisdom see good, at all events in graces and comfort, which are true riches and honours.

Fuente: Matthew Henry’s Whole Bible Commentary

Verse 11- (See comment on 10:2-3.)

Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary

(11) The house of the wicked shall be overthrown.Observe the contrast between the house and tabernacle (tent); the slighter one shall stand, while the more strongly built one shall perish. (Comp. Pro. 3:33.)

Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)

11. Overthrown Smitten, destroyed. Compare Pro 12:7. House

tabernacle By metonymy for family, household. Compare Job 8:15; Job 15:34; Job 18:14-15; Pro 3:33; Pro 12:7; Pro 21:12; Zec 5:4; Mat 7:27.

Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

v. 11. The house of the wicked shall be overthrown, no matter how permanent they believe it to be; but the tabernacle of the upright, their tent, their temporary dwelling, for they do not regard it as their permanent home, shall flourish, the blessing of the Lord resting upon it.

Fuente: The Popular Commentary on the Bible by Kretzmann

Pro 14:11 The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.

Ver. 11. The house of the wicked shall be overthrown. ] As Phoca’s high walls were, because sin was at the bottom: “Brimstone also shall be scattered on his habitation”; Job 18:15 as it befell Dioclesian, whose house was wholly consumed with fire from heaven; wherewith himself also was so terrified, that he died within a while after. a

But the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish. ] The wicked have “houses,” and are called the “inhabitants of the earth.” Rev 12:12 The upright have “tabernacles,” or tents that were transportative and taken down at pleasure; here they “have no continuing city,” no mansion place; and yet what they have shall flourish: “Our bed is green, the beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.” Son 1:16-17 See 2Sa 23:5 .

a Euseb. de vit. Const., lib. v.

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)

the wicked = lawless ones. Hebrew. rasha’. App-44. See notes on Pro 14:32.

tabernacle = a-tent, or dwelling. Hebrew. ‘ohel. App-40. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6, for the dwellers therein.

the upright = upright ones (as in Pro 14:9).

Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics

Pro 14:11

Pro 14:11

“The house of the wicked shall be overthrown; But the tent of the righteous shall flourish.”

This is the perpetual theme of Proverbs. The good prosper; the wicked fail and suffer. The Christian should understand all such promises in the higher light of the New Testament. It is written that. “We must through many tribulations enter into the kingdom of God” (Act 14:22). It is in the eternal sense alone, that such promises as this, must be understood; although in a lesser and secondary sense, they are fulfilled literally in this present life.

Pro 14:11. A triple contrast: house vs. tent; wicked vs. upright; and shall be overthrown us. shall flourish. This verse blends the material found is Pro 14:1-2; study it until you can see this fact.

Fuente: Old and New Testaments Restoration Commentary

house: Pro 3:33, Pro 12:7, Pro 21:12, Job 8:15, Job 15:34, Job 18:14, Job 18:15, Job 18:21, Job 20:26-28, Job 21:28, Job 27:13-23, Zec 5:4, Mat 7:26, Mat 7:27

the tabernacle: Pro 11:28, Pro 21:20, Job 8:6, Psa 112:2, Psa 112:3, Psa 128:3, Isa 58:11, Isa 58:12

Reciprocal: Pro 15:25 – destroy

Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge