Proverbs 16:7

“When a man’s ways please the Lord, etc.] As they do when a man walks according to the rule of his word; when he walks as he has Christ for an example; when he walks after the Spirit, and not after the flesh; when he walks by faith, and does all he does in faith; without which it is impossible to please God, (<581106>Hebrews 11:6); and when all his ways and actions are directed to the glory of God; he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him; as Abimelech with Isaac, Esau with Jacob; and the enemies of the church and people of God with then, in the latter day, (<660309>Revelation 3:9).”

“Persecutions, of course, excepted.”

“Goodness has power to charm and win even enemies to itself. return to 'Top of Page'”

“please: Psa 69:31; Rom 8:31; Phi 4:18; Col 1:10, Col 3:20; Heb 13:21; Jo1 3:22 he: Gen 27:41, Gen 32:6, Gen 32:7, Gen 32:28, Gen 33:4; Jer 15:11; Act 9:1, Act 9:2, Act 9:19, Act 9:20 Proverbs 16:8”

“7 If Jahve has pleasure in the ways of a man, He reconciles even his enemies to him - properly (for השׁלים is here the causative of the transitive, Jos 10:1): He brings it about that they conclude peace with him. If God has pleasure in the ways of a man, i.e., in the designs which he prosecutes, and in the means which he employs, he shows, by the great consequences which flow from his endeavours, that, even as his enemies also acknowledge, God is with him (e.g., Gen 26:27.), so that they, vanquished in heart (e.g., Sa2 19:9.), abandon their hostile position, and become his friends. For if it is manifest that God makes Himself known, bestowing blessings on a man, there lies in this a power of…”