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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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ABOMINATION, &C. See note on Proverbs 3:32....
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See Proverbs 20:10, note....
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TEXT Proverbs 20:21-30
21.
An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning;
But the end thereof shall not be blessed.
22.
Say not thou, I will recompense evil:
Wait for Jehovah, and he wil...
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_DIVERS WEIGHTS ARE AN ABOMINATION UNTO THE LORD; AND A FALSE BALANCE
IS NOT GOOD._
No JFB commentary on this verse....
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20:23 weights (g-2) See ver. 10....
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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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This is similar to verse 10. Many people think that small lies do not
matter. Solomon does not agree with this idea. Solomon repeats the
lesson, because it is important. God hates all lies.
V24 God d...
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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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תֹּועֲבַ֣ת יְ֭הוָה אֶ֣בֶן וָ אָ֑בֶן
וּ מֹאזְנ
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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 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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“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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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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DIVERS WEIGHTS [ARE] AN ABOMINATION UNTO THE LORD,....
Proverbs 20:10; which is here repeated for the further confirmation of
it, and that it might be taken notice of and avoided; and perhaps this
si...
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Divers weights [are] an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance
[is] not good.
Ver. 23. _Divers weights are an abomination._] In righting and
revenging themselves men are apt to weigh things i...
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V. 23. DIVERS WEIGHTS ARE AN ABOMINATION UNTO THE LORD, AND A FALSE
BALANCE IS NOT GOOD. Cf v. 10....
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A FALSE BALANCE:
_ Heb._ balance of deceit...
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DIVERS WEIGHTS ARE AN ABOMINATION UNTO THE LORD; of which SEE POOLE ON
"PROVERBS 20:10". IS NOT GOOD; is very wicked and hateful to God and
men....
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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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_And a false balance is not good._
FALSE BALANCE APPLIED TO PROVIDENCES
We may apply a false balance to the providences which make up our
life. What skill some people have in dealing only in dark thi...
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 20:22 These four proverbs teach that God,
not people (v. Proverbs 20:22), is the judge and avenger. He detests
all unfair bias in human judgment, as represented by
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_MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 20:22_
THE RECOMPENSER OF EVIL
I. THE MAN WHO HAS BEEN WRONGED IS DISQUALIFIED TO PUNISH THE
OFFENDER. A sense of pain and suffering is not helpful to a man’s
judgment. H...
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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 8:5; Ezekiel 45:10; Hosea 12:7; Proverbs 20:10...