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Verse Proverbs 20:16. _TAKE HIS GARMENT THAT IS SURETY_ FOR _A
STRANGER_] I suppose the meaning to be, If a stranger or unknown
person become surety in a case, greater caution should be used, and
such...
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The warning against suretiship and lust are here repeated and combined
(compare Proverbs 27:13). The judge tells the creditor to seize the
goods of the surety who has been weak enough to pledge himsel...
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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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STRANGER. apostate. Hebrew. _zur._ See notes on Proverbs 2:16;
Proverbs 5:3.
PLEDGE OF HIM. Supply Figure of speech _Ellipsis_ (App-6), "[Who has
become security for]. foreign woman. "
STRANGE WOMAN....
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_Take his garment_ The Law of Moses recognised and regulated distraint
on clothing as security for the repayment of a loan or debt (Exodus
22:26-27; Deuteronomy 24:10-13. Comp. Matthew 5:40). The prov...
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AND TAKE A PLEDGE OF HIM FOR A STRANGE WOMAN— _And pawn him to
foreigners._...
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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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Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of
him for a strange woman.
TAKE HIS GARMENT THAT IS SURETY (FOR) A STRANGER - addressed to the
creditor. Take from the surety the...
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20:16 strangers. (d-16) Some read 'the strange woman,' conforming this
passage to ch. 27.13....
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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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'Strangers,' not A STRANGE WOMAN. He does not deserve to escape the
consequences of his folly....
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You cannot trust this man’s promise. He has promised on behalf of a
foreigner. Perhaps the man is hiding an evil secret. Therefore, you
must keep his coat, until he pays. See also Exodus 22:26-27....
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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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TAKE HIS GARMENT THAT IS SURETY FOR A STRANGER. — Another warning
against suretiship. (See above on Proverbs 6:1.) If a man is rash
enough to become surety for another, he must suffer for his
impruden...
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לְֽקַח ־בִּ֭גְדֹו כִּי ־עָ֣רַב זָ֑ר
וּ בְעַ֖ד
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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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“THE GLORY OF YOUNG MEN”
Proverbs 20:16-30
What a wonderful thought is given in Proverbs 20:27! We stand like a
row of unlighted candles until God's Spirit kindles us. Has the Divine
Nature ever bent...
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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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Take his (f) garment that is surety [for] a stranger: and take a
pledge of him for a strange woman.
(f) Teach him wit, that he cast not himself rashly into danger....
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_Strangers. For whom he has bound himself foolishly, chap. vi. 1. All
who have the care of others, must answer for them. (Calmet)_...
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Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou
shalt be satisfied with bread. It is naught, it is naught, saith the
buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth. There is...
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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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TAKE HIS GARMENT THAT IS SURETY [FOR] A STRANGER,.... Which a man is
cautioned against, Proverbs 6:1; but if a man will be so weak and
foolish, others ought to take care of him, and be cautious how th...
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Take his garment that is surety [for] a stranger: and take a pledge of
him for a strange woman.
Ver. 16. _Take his garment._] And so provide for their own indemnity.
_See Trapp on "_ Pro 6:1 _"_ _See...
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_Take his garment_, &c. Namely, as a pledge, without which he ought
not to be trusted, because, by the action referred to, he shows
himself to be foolish, and takes the ready way to make himself a
beg...
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V. 16. TAKE HIS GARMENT THAT IS SURETY FOR A STRANGER, for one so
foolish and inconsiderate might as well hand it over at once, since he
will surely lose it, AND TAKE A PLEDGE OF HIM FOR A STRANGE WOM...
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TAKE HIS GARMENT, to wit, as a pledge, without which he ought not to
be trusted, because by this action he showeth himself to be a fool,
and he taketh the ready way to beggary. OBJECT. This precept
co...
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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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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 20:13 These proverbs all relate to wealth.
Laziness leads to POVERTY (v. Proverbs 20:13). People will set a value
on something as
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 20:16. A STRANGE WOMAN. Rather, “_a stranger_.”
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 20:16_
NECESSARY SECURITY
I. AN UNTRUSTWORTHY CREDITOR. A man who under ordinary circumstances...
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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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Exodus 22:26; Exodus 22:27; Proverbs 11:15; Proverbs 2:16; Prove
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Take — As a pledge, without which he ought not to be trusted. Of him
— That is surety....