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Verse Proverbs 20:10. _DIVERS WEIGHTS AND DIVERS MEASURES_] _A peise
and a_ _peise; _- Old MS. Bible: from the French _pois_, weight.
Hebrew: "A stone and a stone; an ephah and an ephah." One the
_sta...
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See Proverbs 11:1 : Here perhaps, as a companion to Proverbs 20:9,
with a wider application to all judging one man by rules which we do
not apply to ourselves or to another....
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CHAPTER 20 PROVERBS AS TO PERSONAL CONDUCT
Proverbs of warning and instructions as to personal conduct are found
mostly in this chapter; a number of them are of special interest if
applied to Solomon....
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PROVERBS 20. We have still further traces in Proverbs 20:9; Proverbs
20:24 of the sceptical spirit and the obstinate questionings of self
characteristic of the later Greek period of Jewish thought.
P...
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WEIGHTS... MEASURES. Hebrew "a stone and. stone, an ephah and an
ephah". Ephah put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Species),
App-6, for all kinds of weights and measures. There is no word for
"di...
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_Divers weights_ Lit. A STONE AND A STONE, AN EPHAH AND AN EPHAH;
different weights or measures to buy and to sell with, or when there
is risk of detection, and when fraud is safe. Comp. Deuteronomy
2...
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CHAPTER 20
TEXT Proverbs 20:1-10
1.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler;
And whosoever erreth thereby is not wise,
2.
The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion:
He that provoketh him...
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Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike
abomination to the LORD.
DIVERS WEIGHTS - Hebrew, 'a stone and a stone' - i:e., one weight in
buying; a different one in selling.
DIVE...
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20:10 measures, (b-4) Lit. 'A stone and a stone, an ephah and an
ephah.'...
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1. RAGING] RV 'a brawler.' IS deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man
sneer, quarrel and reel about....
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Shops use scales and measurements. If these are false, then the
shopkeeper is cheating the customer. Solomon says that the shopkeeper
has lied. God hates all lies....
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 20
V1 Wine is like a man who insults you. Beer is like a man who shouts
at you.
If wine and beer tempt you, then you are not wise....
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DIVERS WEIGHTS AND DIVERS MEASURES... — See above on Proverbs 11:1....
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אֶ֣בֶן וָ֭ אֶבֶן אֵיפָ֣ה וְ אֵיפָ֑ה
תֹּועֲבַ֥
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CHAPTER 17
A JUST BALANCE
"A just balance and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag
are His work."- Proverbs 16:11
"A false balance is an abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is...
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CHAPTER 21
IDLENESS
"After the autumn gathering the slothful does not plough; he asks in
the harvest, and there is nothing."- Proverbs 20:4
WE have already in the sixth lecture caught a glimpse of t...
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SOBRIETY; INDUSTRY; HONESTY
Proverbs 20:1-15
Strong drink is the greatest of all foes to human happiness. It gains
an influence over men by fair promises, but when once it is
entrenched, it mocks at...
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Verse Proverbs 20:9. This is the eternal challenge which has but one
answer. When a man recognizes this he begins to inquire for a Saviour.
Verse Proverbs 20:14. "It is bad, it is bad," is the descrip...
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Differing weights, [and] differing measures, both of (e) them [are]
alike abomination to the LORD.
(e) Read (Proverbs 16:11)....
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_Measures. In commerce, (Calmet) as well as in judging. (St. Gregory
in Ezechiel iv.)_...
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Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike
abomination to the LORD. Even a child is known by his doings, whether
his work be pure, and whether it be right. The hearing ear, and the
se...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31.
In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to
avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be
followe...
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DIVERS WEIGHTS, [AND] DIVERS MEASURES,.... Or, "a stone and a stone,
and an ephah and an ephah" d. Stones being in old time used in
weighing, and an "ephah" was a common measure among the Jews; and
th...
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Divers weights, [and] divers measures, both of them [are] alike
abomination to the LORD.
Ver. 10. _Divers weights, and divers measures, &c._] _See Trapp on "_
Pro 11:1 _"_ _See Trapp on "_ Pro 16:11...
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DIVERS WEIGHTS:
_ Heb._ A stone and a stone
MEASURES:
_ Heb._ an ephah, and an ephah...
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DIVERS WEIGHTS AND DIVERS MEASURES; one greater and true for public
show, and one lesser and false for private use, when they had an
opportunity of deceiving....
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Proverbs 20:10 weights H68 H68 measures H374 H374 both H8147 alike
H1571 abomination H8441 LORD H3068...
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CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions regarding the ways of folly.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: Here in this imperfect state, no person can claim to be
sinless, but the just man, walking by the rule o...
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Proverbs 20:1. _Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging._ In the book
of Ecclesiasticus intoxication is connected with poverty, with
harlots, with destruction: chap. Proverbs 19:1. Cyrus, after notic...
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_Divers weights and divers measures; both of them are alike
abomination to the Lord._
CAVEAT VENDITOR
I. Dishonesty in trade is various in its forms. “Divers weights and
divers measures. .. and a fa...
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 20:8 This catalog of proverbs looks at
judgment from various angles. The purpose of a KING, representing
human government, is to restrain evil through acts of judgment (v....
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 20:6. Miller reads the first clause of this verse, “_Much
of the mere man one calls his goodness_,” _i.e._, “Much that is
merely human.” He allows, however, that the usual re...
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 20:1
WINE IS A MOCKER; or, scorner, the word (_luts_) being taken up from
the last chapter. The liquor is, as it were, personified, as doing
what men do under its influence. Thus...
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Into chapter 20.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived
thereby is not wise (Proverbs 20:1).
He will have more to say about wine as we move along in our study next
week,...
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Amos 8:4; Deuteronomy 25:13; Deuteronomy 25:13; Deuteronomy 7:25;...
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Divers — One greater for shew and one lesser for use....