Pro 7:11, 1Ti 5:13 | JFB | STEP | 11, 12. loud —or, "noisy," "bustling." stubborn —not submissive. without . . . streets, . . . corner

Proverbs 7:11

11, 12. loud—or, "noisy," "bustling."

stubborn—not submissive.

without . . . streets, . . . corner—(Compare 1Ti 5:13; Tit 2:5).

1 Timothy 5:13

13. withal—"at the same time, moreover."

learn—usually in a good sense. But these women's "learning" is idleness, trifling, and busybodies' tattle.

wandering—Greek, "going about."

from house to house—of the members of the Church (2Ti 3:6). "They carry the affairs of this house to that, and of that to this; they tell the affairs of all to all" [THEOPHYLACT].

tattlers—literally "trifling talkers." In 3Jo 10, translated "prating."

busybodies—mischievously busy; inconsiderately curious (2Th 3:11). Ac 19:19, "curious," the same Greek. Curiosity usually springs from idleness, which is itself the mother of garrulity [CALVIN].

speaking—not merely "saying." The subject-matter, as well as the form, is involved in the Greek word [ALFORD].

which they ought not— (Tit 1:11).