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{"id":3252,"verse_id":"PRO.28.1","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"PRO","chapter":28,"verse":1,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"1","reference":"28.1","text":"The line portrays the insecurity of a guilty person – he flees because he has a guilty conscience, or because he is suspicious of others around him, or because he fears judgment.","source_note_position":1,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Proverbs%2028%3A1/1"}
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{"id":3253,"verse_id":"PRO.28.2","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"PRO","chapter":28,"verse":2,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"1","reference":"28.2","text":"The Hebrew word translated “rebellious” has rebellion as its basic meaning, and that is the idea here. The proverb is describing a time when sinfulness brings about social and political unrest.","source_note_position":1,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Proverbs%2028%3A2/1"}
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{"id":3254,"verse_id":"PRO.28.3","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"PRO","chapter":28,"verse":3,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"3","reference":"28.3","text":"“Food” is a metonymy of effect here. The picture is of the driving rain that should cause crops to grow so that food can be produced – but does not (some English versions assume the crops are destroyed instead, e.g., NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT). The point the proverb is making is that a show of strength may not produce anything except ruin.","source_note_position":3,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Proverbs%2028%3A3/3"}
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{"id":3255,"verse_id":"PRO.28.4","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"PRO","chapter":28,"verse":4,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"1","reference":"28.4","text":"Some commentators do not think that the word refers to the Mosaic law, but to “instruction” or “teaching” in general (cf. NCV “who disobey what they have been taught”). However, the expression “keep the law” in the second line indicates that it is binding, which would not be true of teaching in general (J. Bright, “The Apodictic Prohibition: Some Observations,” JBL 92 [1973]: 185-204). Moreover, Proverbs 28:9 and 29:18 refer to the law, and this chapter has a stress on piety.","source_note_position":1,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Proverbs%2028%3A4/1"}
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{"id":3256,"verse_id":"PRO.28.4","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"PRO","chapter":28,"verse":4,"note_index":2,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"2","reference":"28.4","text":"The proverb gives the outcome and the evidence of those who forsake the law – they “praise the wicked.” This may mean (1) calling the wicked good or (2) justifying what the wicked do, for such people are no longer sensitive to evil.","source_note_position":2,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Proverbs%2028%3A4/2"}
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{"id":3257,"verse_id":"PRO.28.5","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"PRO","chapter":28,"verse":5,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"3","reference":"28.5","text":"The contrast (and the difference) is between the wicked and those who seek the Lord . Originally the idea of seeking the Lord meant to obtain an oracle ( 2 Sam 21:1 ), but then it came to mean devotion to God – seeking to learn and do his will. Only people who are interested in doing the Lord ’s will can fully understand justice. Without that standard, legal activity can become self-serving.","source_note_position":3,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Proverbs%2028%3A5/3"}
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{"id":3258,"verse_id":"PRO.28.6","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"PRO","chapter":28,"verse":6,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"1","reference":"28.6","text":"This chapter gives a lot of attention to the contrast between the poor and the rich, assuming an integrity for the poor that is not present with the rich; the subject is addressed in vv. 6, 8, 11, 20, 22, 25, and 27 (G. A. Chutter, “Riches and Poverty in the Book of Proverbs,” Crux 18 [1982]: 23-28).","source_note_position":1,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Proverbs%2028%3A6/1"}
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{"id":3259,"verse_id":"PRO.28.6","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"PRO","chapter":28,"verse":6,"note_index":2,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"4","reference":"28.6","text":"This is another “better” saying, contrasting a poor person who has integrity with a rich person who is perverse. Of course there are rich people with integrity and perverse poor people, but that is not of interest here. If it came to the choices described here, honest poverty is better than corrupt wealth.","source_note_position":4,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Proverbs%2028%3A6/4"}
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{"id":3260,"verse_id":"PRO.28.7","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"PRO","chapter":28,"verse":7,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"3","reference":"28.7","text":"The companion of gluttons shames his father and his family because such a life style as he now embraces is both unruly and antisocial.","source_note_position":3,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Proverbs%2028%3A7/3"}
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{"id":3261,"verse_id":"PRO.28.9","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"PRO","chapter":28,"verse":9,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"1","reference":"28.9","text":"The expression “turn away the ear from hearing” uses a metonymy to mean that this individual will not listen – it indicates a deliberate refusal to follow the instruction of the law.","source_note_position":1,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Proverbs%2028%3A9/1"}
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{"id":3262,"verse_id":"PRO.28.9","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"PRO","chapter":28,"verse":9,"note_index":2,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"2","reference":"28.9","text":"It is hard to imagine how someone who willfully refuses to obey the law of God would pray according to the will of God. Such a person is more apt to pray for some physical thing or make demands on God. (Of course a prayer of repentance would be an exception and would not be an abomination to the Lord .)","source_note_position":2,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Proverbs%2028%3A9/2"}
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{"id":3263,"verse_id":"PRO.28.9","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"PRO","chapter":28,"verse":9,"note_index":3,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"3","reference":"28.9","text":"C. H. Toy says, “If a man, on his part, is deaf to instruction, then God, on his part, is deaf to prayer” ( Proverbs [ICC], 499). And W. McKane observes that one who fails to attend to God’s law is a wicked person, even if he is a man of prayer ( Proverbs [OTL], 623).","source_note_position":3,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Proverbs%2028%3A9/3"}
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{"id":3264,"verse_id":"PRO.28.10","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"PRO","chapter":28,"verse":10,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"1","reference":"28.10","text":"The image of falling into a pit (a figure of speech known as hypocatastasis, involving implied comparison) is meant to say that the evil to which he guides people will ultimately destroy him.","source_note_position":1,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Proverbs%2028%3A10/1"}
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{"id":3265,"verse_id":"PRO.28.10","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"PRO","chapter":28,"verse":10,"note_index":2,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"2","reference":"28.10","text":"This proverb is teaching that those who corrupt others will be destroyed, usually by their own devices, but those who manage to avoid being corrupted will be rewarded. According to this proverb the righteous can be led astray (e.g., 26:27 ).","source_note_position":2,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Proverbs%2028%3A10/2"}
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{"id":3266,"verse_id":"PRO.28.11","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"PRO","chapter":28,"verse":11,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"2","reference":"28.11","text":"The idiom “in his own eyes” means “in his own opinion,” that is, his self conceit. The rich person thinks he is wise because he is rich, that he has made all the right choices.","source_note_position":2,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Proverbs%2028%3A11/2"}
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{"id":3267,"verse_id":"PRO.28.12","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"PRO","chapter":28,"verse":12,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"2","reference":"28.12","text":"“Glory” here may have the sense of elation and praise.","source_note_position":2,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Proverbs%2028%3A12/2"}
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{"id":3268,"verse_id":"PRO.28.13","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"PRO","chapter":28,"verse":13,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"2","reference":"28.13","text":"The verse contrasts the consequences of each. The person who refuses to confess will not prosper. This is an understatement (a figure of speech known as tapeinosis); the opposite is the truth, that eventually such a person will be undone and ruined. On the other hand, the penitent will find mercy. This expression is a metonymy of cause for the effect – although “mercy” is mentioned, what mercy provides is intended, i.e., forgiveness. In other passages the verb “conceal” is used of God’s forgiveness – he covers over the iniquity ( Ps 32:1 ). Whoever acknowledges sin, God will cover it; whoever covers it, God will lay it open.","source_note_position":2,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Proverbs%2028%3A13/2"}
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{"id":3269,"verse_id":"PRO.28.13","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"PRO","chapter":28,"verse":13,"note_index":2,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"3","reference":"28.13","text":"This verse is unique in the book of Proverbs; it captures the theology of forgiveness (e.g., Pss 32 and 51 ). Every part of the passage is essential to the point: Confession of sins as opposed to concealing them, coupled with a turning away from them, results in mercy.","source_note_position":3,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Proverbs%2028%3A13/3"}
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{"id":3270,"verse_id":"PRO.28.14","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"PRO","chapter":28,"verse":14,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"2","reference":"28.14","text":"The one who “hardens his heart” in this context is the person who refuses to fear sin and its consequences. The image of the “hard heart” is one of a stubborn will, unyielding and unbending (cf. NCV, TEV, NLT). This individual will fall into sin.","source_note_position":2,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Proverbs%2028%3A14/2"}
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{"id":3271,"verse_id":"PRO.28.15","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"PRO","chapter":28,"verse":15,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"2","reference":"28.15","text":"The comparison uses animals that are powerful, terrifying, insensitive, and in search of prey. Because political tyrants are like this, animal imagery of this sort is also used in Dan 7:1-8 for the series of ruthless world powers.","source_note_position":2,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Proverbs%2028%3A15/2"}
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{"id":3272,"verse_id":"PRO.28.15","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"PRO","chapter":28,"verse":15,"note_index":2,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"3","reference":"28.15","text":"A poor nation under the control of political tyrants who are dangerous and destructive is helpless. The people of that nation will crumble under them because they cannot meet their demands and are of no use to them.","source_note_position":3,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Proverbs%2028%3A15/3"}
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{"id":3273,"verse_id":"PRO.28.17","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"PRO","chapter":28,"verse":17,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"2","reference":"28.17","text":"The text has “the blood of a life”; blood will be the metonymy of effect for the murder, the shedding of blood.","source_note_position":2,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Proverbs%2028%3A17/2"}
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{"id":3274,"verse_id":"PRO.28.20","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"PRO","chapter":28,"verse":20,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"2","reference":"28.20","text":"The proverb is not rebuking diligent labor. One who is eager to get rich quickly is the opposite of the faithful person. The first person is faithful to God and to the covenant community; the second is trying to get rich as quickly as possible, at the least without doing an honest day’s work and at the worst dishonestly. In a hurry to gain wealth, he falls into various schemes and will pay for it. Tg . Prov 28:20 interprets this to say he hastens through deceit and wrongdoing.","source_note_position":2,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Proverbs%2028%3A20/2"}
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{"id":3275,"verse_id":"PRO.28.22","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"PRO","chapter":28,"verse":22,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"2","reference":"28.22","text":"The one who is hasty to gain wealth is involved in sin in some way, for which he will be punished by poverty. The idea of “hastening” after riches suggests a dishonest approach to acquiring wealth.","source_note_position":2,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Proverbs%2028%3A22/2"}
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{"id":3276,"verse_id":"PRO.28.24","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"PRO","chapter":28,"verse":24,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"1","reference":"28.24","text":"While the expression is general enough to cover any kind of robbery, the point seems to be that because it can be rationalized it may refer to prematurely trying to gain control of the family property through some form of pressure and in the process reducing the parents’ possessions and standing in the community. The culprit could claim what he does is not wrong because the estate would be his anyway.","source_note_position":1,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Proverbs%2028%3A24/1"}
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{"id":3277,"verse_id":"PRO.28.24","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"PRO","chapter":28,"verse":24,"note_index":2,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"2","reference":"28.24","text":"The metaphor of “companion” here means that a person who would do this is just like the criminally destructive person. It is as if they were working together, for the results are the same.","source_note_position":2,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Proverbs%2028%3A24/2"}
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{"id":3278,"verse_id":"PRO.28.25","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"PRO","chapter":28,"verse":25,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"2","reference":"28.25","text":"Greed “stirs up” the strife. This individual’s attitude and actions stir up dissension because people do not long tolerate him.","source_note_position":2,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Proverbs%2028%3A25/2"}
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{"id":3279,"verse_id":"PRO.28.26","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"PRO","chapter":28,"verse":26,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"1","reference":"28.26","text":"The idea of “trusting in one’s own heart” is a way of describing one who is self-reliant. C. H. Toy says it means to follow the untrained suggestions of the mind or to rely on one’s own mental resources ( Proverbs [ICC], 505). It is arrogant to take no counsel but to rely only on one’s own intelligence.","source_note_position":1,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Proverbs%2028%3A26/1"}
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{"id":3280,"verse_id":"PRO.28.26","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"PRO","chapter":28,"verse":26,"note_index":2,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"2","reference":"28.26","text":"The idiom of “walking in wisdom” means to live life according to the acquired skill and knowledge passed on from the sages. It is the wisdom from above that the book of Proverbs presents, not the undisciplined and uninformed wit and wisdom from below.","source_note_position":2,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Proverbs%2028%3A26/2"}
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{"id":3281,"verse_id":"PRO.28.27","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"PRO","chapter":28,"verse":27,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"1","reference":"28.27","text":"The generous individual will be rewarded. He will not lack nor miss what he has given away to the poor.","source_note_position":1,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Proverbs%2028%3A27/1"}
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{"id":3282,"verse_id":"PRO.28.27","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"PRO","chapter":28,"verse":27,"note_index":2,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"4","reference":"28.27","text":"The text does not specify the nature or the source of the curses. It is natural to think that they would be given by the poor who are being mistreated and ignored. Far from being praised for their contributions to society, selfish, stingy people will be reviled for their heartless indifference.","source_note_position":4,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Proverbs%2028%3A27/4"}
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