Proverbs 20:1
A mocker — Wine immoderately drunk makes men mockers. Raging — Makes men full of rage.... [ Continue Reading ]
A mocker — Wine immoderately drunk makes men mockers. Raging — Makes men full of rage.... [ Continue Reading ]
The fear — The terror which the wrath of a king causes.... [ Continue Reading ]
Meddling — Is always ready to begin strife, and obstinate in the continuance of it.... [ Continue Reading ]
Counsel — Designs of doing something of moment. Deep water — Is secret and hard to be discovered.... [ Continue Reading ]
His eyes — With his very looks, or by his diligent inspection into affairs.... [ Continue Reading ]
Divers — One greater for shew and one lesser for use.... [ Continue Reading ]
Is known — The future disposition of a man may be probably conjectured from his childish manners.... [ Continue Reading ]
Open — Shake off sloth and betake thyself to thy employment with diligence and vigour.... [ Continue Reading ]
The lips — But wise speeches are of far greater worth.... [ Continue Reading ]
Take — As a pledge, without which he ought not to be trusted. Of him — That is surety.... [ Continue Reading ]
Established — The way to bring our purposes to good effect is to manage them with serious consideration.... [ Continue Reading ]
Lamp — His name and memory shall utterly perish.... [ Continue Reading ]
His way — What the issue of his designs will be.... [ Continue Reading ]
A snare — It brings guilt upon him. After — After a man has made vows to enquire for ways to break them.... [ Continue Reading ]
The wheel — As the cart — wheel was anciently turned over the sheaves to beat the corn out of them. He punishes them as their offences deserve.... [ Continue Reading ]
The spirit — The reasonable soul. The candle — Is a clear and glorious light set up in man for his information and direction. Of the Lord — So called because it comes from God in a more immediate manner than the body, Ecclesiastes 12:7, and because it is in God's stead, to observe and judge all our... [ Continue Reading ]
The blueness — Grievous wounds, which make men black and blue; or severe punishments. Cleanseth — Are the means to reclaim a wicked man, and to purge out his corruption. The belly — Of the heart. Grievous wounds or stripes cleanse not only the outward man by keeping it from evil actions, but even th... [ Continue Reading ]