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Verse Proverbs 20:11. _EVEN A CHILD IS KNOWN BY HIS DOINGS_] That is,
in general terms, the _effect_ shows the nature of the cause. "A
childe is known by his conversation," says _Coverdale_. A child...
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The graces or the faults of children are not trifles. “The child is
father of the man;” and the earliest actions are prophecies of the
future, whether it will be pure and right, or unclean and evil....
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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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PURE. accurate.
RIGHT. correct....
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_is known_ or, _maketh himself known_; betrays his true character, and
gives presage of "his (life's) work." Comp. the familiar German
proverb, "_Was ein Dörnchen werden will spitzt sich bei Zeiten_,...
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TEXT Proverbs 20:11-20
11.
Even a child maketh himself known by his doings,
Whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
12.
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye,
Jehovah hath made even bot...
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Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and
whether it be right.
EVEN A CHILD IS KNOWN BY HIS DOINGS, WHETHER HIS WORK (BE) PURE, AND
WHETHER (IT BE) RIGHT. A child gives ind...
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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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EVEN A CHILD IS KNOWN BY HIS DOINGS... — The disposition soon shews
itself; all the more reason, therefore, to train it betimes....
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גַּ֣ם בְּ֭ מַעֲלָלָיו יִתְנַכֶּר
־נָ֑עַר אִם...
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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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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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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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_Right. We may form some judgment of his future conduct, from the
inclinations which he manifests in his infancy. Naturam expellas
furca, tamen ipsa recurret,_
Et mala perrumpet furtim fastidia victr...
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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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EVEN A CHILD IS KNOWN BY HIS DOINGS,.... As well as a man; "ye shall
know them by their fruits", Matthew 7:16; professors and profane. So a
child soon discovers its genius by its actions; it soon show...
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Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work [be] pure, and
whether [it be] right.
Ver. 11. _Even a child is known by his doings, &c._]. Either for the
better, as we see in young Joseph, Sam...
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_A child is known by his doings_ Children discover their inclinations
or dispositions by their childish speeches and carriages, as not
having yet learned the art of dissembling: _whether his work be_,...
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V. 11. EVEN A CHILD IS KNOWN BY HIS DOINGS, reveals his nature and
character by his acts, WHETHER HIS WORK BE PURE, AND WHETHER IT BE
RIGHT, there is no innocence in childhood, and children will be he...
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EVEN A CHILD IS KNOWN BY HIS DOINGS; young children discover their
inclinations or dispositions even by their childish speeches and
carriages, as not having yet learnt the art of dissembling. WHETHER...
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Proverbs 20:11 child H5288 known H5234 (H8691) deeds H4611 does H6467
pure H2134 right H3477...
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Proverbs 20:11
I. The actions of children become, in process of time, their own
doings. Children move before they act, and they live as mere animals
before they act spiritually and morally. But in pr...
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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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_Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and
whether it be right._
A CHILD’S ACCOUNTABILITY
The Bible recovers lost truths, as well as lost souls. The recovery of
lost truth is...
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WHO TOLD TALES?
Even a child maketh himself known by his doings. Proverbs 20:11.
If we were to search this church for a child who liked and admired a
talebearer, and if we were to find one, I think...
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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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Luke 1:15; Luke 1:66; Luke 2:46; Luke 2:47; Luke 6:43;...
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Is known — The future disposition of a man may be probably
conjectured from his childish manners....