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Pro_15:25 The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
Ver. 25. The Lord will destroy the house of the proud.] Where he thinks himself most safe, God will pull him, as it were, by the ears out of his tabernacle. He will surely unroost him, unnest him, yea, though he hath set his nest among the stars, as he did proud Lucifer, who "kept not his first estate, but left his habitation," {Jdg_1:6} which indeed he could hold no longer; for it spewed him out into hell, that infernus ab inferendo dictus. {See Trapp on "Pro_12:7"} {See Trapp on "Pro_14:11"}
But he will establish the border of the widow.] Not the rest of her goods only, but the very utmost borders of her small possession. She hath commonly no great matters to be proud of, nor any patrons to stick to her, and stickle for her. She hath her name in Hebrew {a} of dumbness, because either she cannot speak for herself - death having cut off her head, her husband, who was wont to speak for her - or if she do speak, her tale cannot be heard. {Luk_18:4} God therefore will speak for her in the hearts of her greatest opponents and oppressors. He also will do for her, and defend her borders, as he did for the Shunammite, and for the Sareptan, and for the poor prophet’s widow, whose debts he paid for her, and for the widow of Nain, whose son he raised unrequested; {Luk_7:13} especially if she be a "widow indeed," {1Ti_5:5} such as Anna was. {Luk_2:37} A vine whose root is uncovered thrives not; a widow whose covering of eyes is taken away, joys not. But in God "the fatherless findeth mercy," {Hos_14:3} and he will "cause the widow’s heart to sing for joy." {Job_29:13}
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