Proverbs 20:1-30
1. RAGING] RV 'a brawler.' IS deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man sneer, quarrel and reel about.... [ Continue Reading ]
1. RAGING] RV 'a brawler.' IS deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man sneer, quarrel and reel about.... [ Continue Reading ]
FEAR] the 'terror' which he causes. SOUL] RV 'life.'... [ Continue Reading ]
Read, 'In the autumn.. therefore when he seeketh,' etc.: the first season begins about October, the second about April.... [ Continue Reading ]
A clever cross-questioner elicits one's plans.... [ Continue Reading ]
SCATTERETH AWAY] RM 'winnoweth' (1 Kings 3:28).... [ Continue Reading ]
'What mortal when he saw, Life's voyage done, his heavenly Friend, Could ever yet dare tell Him fearlessly: “I have kept uninfring'd my nature's law; The inly-written chart Thou gavest me, To guide me, I have steer'd by to the end”?'... [ Continue Reading ]
OPEN THINE EYES] i.e. Wake up!... [ Continue Reading ]
Read, 'There is gold and abundance of corals and precious vessels—wise lips are all these.'... [ Continue Reading ]
'Strangers,' not A STRANGE WOMAN. He does not deserve to escape the consequences of his folly.... [ Continue Reading ]
A 'chatterbox,' not a 'flatterer,' is meant.... [ Continue Reading ]
RV 'It is a snare to a man rashly to say, It is holy,' etc. Reflect before vowing (Sir 15:1.; Matthew 15:8). There is a Greek story of one who found a gold mine, and thereupon vowed a gold ram to Juno: soon he substituted a silver one; then a small brass one; eventually she got nothing. 'The river p... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WHEEL of the threshing-cart, crushing in its weight (Amos 1:3).... [ Continue Reading ]
Conscience is a searchlight, piercing the depths of the heart (1 Corinthians 2:11).... [ Continue Reading ]
It is the king's goodness and reliableness that are meant. 30. The blueness, etc.] RV 'Stripes that wound cleanse,' etc. (Psalms 119:67).... [ Continue Reading ]