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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Proverbs 25:14

Verse Proverbs 25:14. A false gift] מתת שקר mattath shaker, a lying gift, one promised, but never bestowed. "Whoso maketh greate boastes, and giveth nothing;" COVERDALE. SO the VULGATE: "Vir gloriosus, et promissa non complens;" "A bragging man, who does not fulfil his promises," is like clouds which appear to be laden with vapour, and like the wind which, though it blow from a rainy quarter, brings no moistness with it. So the vain boaster; he is big with promise, but performs nothing.

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See also Proverbs 25:14 in other biblical comments:

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Lit., CLOUDS AND WIND AND NO RAIN; A MAN WHO BOASTS HIMSELF OF A GIFT OF FALSEHOOD. The rising wind and gathering clouds (1 Kings 18:45) which, un-accompanied by rain, disappoint the expectation...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    OF A FALSE GIFT] RV 'of his gifts falsely.' 'Much cry and little wool.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    COURTS. QUARRELS 1-7. relate to kings and courts....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    נְשִׂיאִ֣ים וְ֭ רוּחַ וְ גֶ֣שֶׁם אָ֑יִן אִ֥יש

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift, of a liberality which he does not practice, IS LIKE CLOUDS AND WIND WITHOUT RAIN, which also promise much and yield nothing....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    TRUE WISDOM THE HIGHEST GOOD OF KINGS AND SUBJECTS....

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    OF A FALSE GIFT: _ Heb._ in a gift of falsehood...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    WHOSO BOASTETH HIMSELF OF A FALSE GIFT, pretending that he hath given, or promising that he will give, a man those gifts, which he neither hath given, nor intendeth to give him, IS LIKE CLOUDS AND WIN...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Proverbs 25:14 Whoever H376 falsely H8267 boasts H1984 (H8693) giving H4991 clouds H5387 wind H7307 rain H1653

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, Hezekiah. CONCLUSION: (Principal lesson, Proverbs 25:21; Proverbs 25:22.) The way to turn an enemy into a friend is to act friendly towa...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 25:14. A FALSE GIFT. This gift is generally understood to be one bestowed by the boaster, but which is worth nothing, or the mere promise of a gift which is never fulfilled....

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION VERSE 1-29:27 PART VI. SECOND GREAT COLLECTION OF SOLOMONIC PROVERBS, gathered by "the men of Hezekiah," in which wisdom is set forth as the greatest blessing to the king and his subjects...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now in chapter 25. These proverbs were gathered by Hezekiah when he became king, and they were added to the books of proverbs by Hezekiah's scribes. During the period of Hezekiah's reign, it was a per...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 22:11; 2 Corinthians 11:13; 2 Corinthians 11:31; 2 Peter 2:15;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Boasteth — Promising what he never intends to give. Is like — Like empty clouds carried about with wind, and not affording that rain which they promise....

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