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Verse Proverbs 20:15. _THERE IS GOLD_] _Gold_ is valuable, _silver_ is
valuable, and so are _jewels_; but the _teachings_ of _sound
knowledge_ are more valuable than all....
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A PRECIOUS JEWEL - literally, “A vessel of preciousness,” i. e.,
most precious of all are “the lips of knowledge.”...
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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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_rubies_ The R.V. retains this word, but refers to Job 28:18, where it
gives in the margin, or, _red coral_, or, _pearls_. See Proverbs 3:15,
note....
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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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There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge
are a precious jewel.
THERE IS GOLD, AND A MULTITUDE OF RUBIES: BUT THE LIPS OF KNOWLEDGE
(DISCREET GODLY SPEECH) (ARE) A PRECIO...
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20:15 Jewel. (c-17) Or 'vessel.'...
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Read, 'There is gold and abundance of corals and precious
vessels—wise lips are all these.'...
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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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Gold and precious stones seem valuable. They are beautiful and
expensive. But many people own them. And these things are not very
useful.
Knowledge is useful. Knowledge is more valuable than gold or...
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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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יֵ֣שׁ זָ֭הָב וְ רָב ־פְּנִינִ֑ים וּ
כְלִ֥י
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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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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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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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THERE IS GOLD, AND A MULTITUDE OF RUBIES,.... A man may have a large
quantity of either, or of both of thorn, as some men have; for there
is much of them in the world, not only in mines and quarries,...
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There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge
[are] a precious jewel.
Ver. 15. _There is gold and a multitude of rubies._] Quintilian
defines an orator, _Vir bonus dicendi perit...
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_There is gold_, &c. Namely, in the world, in divers persons' hands,
by whom it is much prized; _but the lips of knowledge_ Wise speeches,
proceeding from a well-informed and upright mind, _are a prec...
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V. 15. THERE IS GOLD AND A MULTITUDE OF RUBIES, or pearls, such
trinkets are found in abundance in the world; BUT THE LIPS OF
KNOWLEDGE ARE A PRECIOUS JEWEL, they are rare indeed in the world....
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THERE IS GOLD, to wit, in the world, in divers men's hands, by whom it
is highly prized. BUT THE LIPS OF KNOWLEDGE ARE A PRECIOUS JEWEL; but
wise speeches proceeding from an understanding or honest he...
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Proverbs 20:15 is H3426 gold H2091 multitude H7230 rubies H6443 lips
H8193 knowledge H1847 precious H3366 jewel H36
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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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_There is gold, and a multitude of rubies._
ON THE MORAL END OF BUSINESS
Let me define my meaning in the use of this phrase--“the moral end
of business.” It is not the end for which property should b...
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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 20:15. Here Miller reads, _There is gold_, etc., in _the lips
of knowledge_.
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 20:14_
BARGAINING
This proverb refers—
I. TO A WORLD-WIDE MANIFE...
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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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Ecclesiastes 12:9; Ephesians 4:29; Job 28:12; Proverbs 10:20;...
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The lips — But wise speeches are of far greater worth....