Bridges on Proverbs 21:24
 
 
Charles Bridges on Proverbs 21:24
 
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24.  Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath. {in proud...: Heb. in the wrath of pride}
 
And who gave him this name? Even he, who “will destroy the tongue that speaketh proud things, who hath said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is Lord over us?” (Psalm 12:4.) See how God loads him with disgrace. Man's rebukes may be “the curse causeless, that will not come.” (Chapter 26:2.) But God's stamp is indelible. Proud and haughty scorner! Such is his name. He may pride himself upon his scorning. But contrast him with “the man, to whom God looks, him that is poor, and of a contrite spirit, and that trembleth at my word.” (Isaiah 66:2.)
Look at this vivid picture in Pharaoh — that haughty scorner bursting out in his proud wrath — “Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice?” (Exodus 5:2), in Sennacherib, “reproaching and blaspheming the Holy One of Israel.”† Haman meets with an affront. His proud wrath kindles. He cares neither for God, nor man. The ruin of his single enemy will not suffice. He must glut himself with the blood of a whole unoffending nation.†
Scorner is his name. Not an empty name. Never let us separate the name which God hath given, from the doom which he hath denounced. “The day of the LORD of Hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low. Behold! the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud shall be as stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of Hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.” (Isaiah 2:12. Malachi 4:1.) “Now we call the proud happy. But how shall they abide the day of his coming?” (Malachi 3:15, with 2.) Oh! with such a manifestation of the mind of God, never think lightly of a proud thought, or a scornful feeling or expression.
It may be, that this hateful abomination† is indulged in God's own children. Yet he will not wink at this sin, nor spare his rod. The glory of their name shall be darkened. His frown shall be made visible. If “Asa's heart was” in the main “perfect with God all his days,” yet for the sin of haughtiness and proud wrath, his sun went down in a cloud.† “For our God is a consuming fire.”†
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Psalm 12:4
4 Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us? {are...: Heb. are with us}
 
 
Proverbs 26:2
2 ¶ As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.
 
 
Isaiah 66:2
2 For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.
 
 
Exodus 5:2
2 And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.
 
 
Footnote:
2 Kings 18:35; 19:21, 22, 28.
 
 
2 Kings 18:35
35 Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?
 
2 Kings 18:35; 19:21, 22, 28.
21 This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee. 22 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel. 28 Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
 
 
Footnote:
Esther 3:5, 6; 5:9.
 
 
Esther 3:5, 6
5 And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence, then was Haman full of wrath. 6 And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.
 
Esther 5:9
9 ¶ Then went Haman forth that day joyful and with a glad heart: but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he stood not up, nor moved for him, he was full of indignation against Mordecai.
 
 
Isaiah 2:12
12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:
 
Malachi 4:1
1 ¶ For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
 
 
Malachi 3:15
15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered. {are set up: Heb. are built}
 
with
Malachi 3:2
2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap:
 
 
Footnote:
Chapter 6:16, 17; 8:13; 16:5. Compare Ecclesiasticus 10:12, 13.
 
 
Proverbs 6:16, 17
16 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: {unto...: Heb. of his soul} 17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, {A proud...: Heb. Haughty eyes}
 
Proverbs 8:13
13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
 
Proverbs 16:5
5 ¶ Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished. {unpunished: Heb. held innocent}
 
Compare
Ecclesiasticus 10:12, 13.
12 The beginning of pride is when one departeth from God, and his heart is turned away from his Maker. 13 For pride is the beginning of sin, and he that hath it shall pour out abomination: and therefore the Lord brought upon them strange calamities, and overthrew them utterly.
 
 
Footnote:
1 Kings 15:14. 2 Chronicles 16:10-13.
 
 
1 Kings 15:14
14 But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.
 
2 Chronicles 16:10-13
10 Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time. {oppressed: Heb. crushed} 11 And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. 12 And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians. 13 And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.
 
 
Footnote:
Hebrews 12:28, 29.
 
 
Hebrews 12:28, 29
28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: {let...: or, let us hold fast} 29 For our God is a consuming fire.