|Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary| 19:3. Men run into troubles
by their own folly, and then fret at the appointments of God. 4.
Here we may see how strong is men's love of money. 5. Those that
tell lies in discourse, are in a fair way to be guilty of
bearing false-witness. 6. We are without excuse if we do not
love God with all our hearts. His gifts to us are past number,
and all the gifts of men to us are fruits of his bounty. 7.
Christ was left by all his disciples; but the Father was with
him. It encourages our faith that he had so large an experience
of the sorrows of poverty. 8. Those only love their souls aright
that get true wisdom. 9. Lying is a damning, destroying sin. 10.
A man that has not wisdom and grace, has no right or title to
true joy. It is very unseemly for one who is a servant to sin,
to oppress God's free-men. Verse 4. - Wealth maketh many friends
(vers. 6, 7; Proverbs 14:20). A Greek gnome expresses the same
truth - Ἐὰν δ ἔχωμεν χρήμαθ ἕξομεν φίλους. The poor is separated
from his neig