Proverbs 20:1
What meaning of the proverbs 20:1 in the Bible?
What does Proverbs 20:1 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise."
What does Proverbs 20:1 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise."
CHAPTER XX _Against wine and strong drink. We should avoid contentions._ _The sluggard. The righteous man. Weights and measures._ _Tale-bearers. The wicked son. The wise king. The glory of_ _young...
“Wine” and “strong drink” are personified as themselves doing what they make men do. The latter (see Leviticus 10:9 note) is here, probably, the “palm-wine” of Syria....
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...
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....
WINE. Hebrew. _yayin._ See App-27. IS. Figure of speech _Metaphor._ App-6. MOCKER. scoffer. STRONG DRINK. Hebrew. _shekar._ App-27. IV RAGING. a brawler. IS DECEIVED. erreth. Hebrew. _shagah =_ t...
_a mocker_ Rather A SCORNER, Proverbs 1:22, note. _raging_ Rather, A BRAWLER, R.V. In each case the thing is personified in its victim. The drunkard in his cups becomes impious towards God and quarre...
STRONG DRINK IS RAGING— The first precept in this chapter is against drunkenness, as an enemy to wisdom even in common things, much more in those of everlasting concernment; for that commonly expels o...
CHAPTER 20 TEXT Proverbs 20:1-10 1. Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; And whosoever erreth thereby is not wise, 2. The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion: He that provoketh him...
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. WINE IS A MOCKER. Wine makes those who drink it mockers of God and of men. STRONG DRINK (HEBREW, sheekaar...
1. RAGING] RV 'a brawler.' IS deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man sneer, quarrel and reel about....
A drunk might say that alcohol is like a friend to him. Solomon does not agree. A friend would not insult you. But wine and beer do this. Alcohol insults your mind and confuses your thoughts. It can h...
XX. (1) WINE IS A MOCKER, STRONG DRINK IS RAGING — _i.e.,_ producing these effects in those who subject themselves to their power....
לֵ֣ץ הַ֭ יַּין הֹמֶ֣ה שֵׁכָ֑ר וְ כָל ־שֹׁ֥גֶה בֹּ֝֗ו לֹ֣א יֶחְכָּֽם׃...
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...
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...
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 descri...
(a) Wine [is] a mocker, strong drink [is] raging: and whoever is deceived by it is not wise. (a) By wine here is meant him that is given to wine, and so by strong drink....
_A luxurious thing. Hebrew, "a scoffer." Chaldean, "renders one a scoffer." --- Drunkenness. Hebrew ssocor, any strong drink, particularly palm-wine. Intemperance places the strongest obstacles in the...
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul. It i...
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 follow...
WINE [IS] A MOCKER, STRONG DRINK [IS] RAGING,.... Wine deceives a man; it not only overcomes him before he is aware, but it promises him a pleasure which it does not give; but, on the contrary, excess...
Wine [is] a mocker, strong drink [is] raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. Ver. 1. _Wine is a mocker, &c._] For, first, it mocks _a_ the drunkard, and makes a fool of him, promising...
_Wine is a mocker_ Wine immoderately drank makes men mockers or scoffers at God and men: see Hosea 7:5. Or, is a mocker to the sinner himself, makes a mock of him, deprives him of his understanding, a...
V. 1. WINE IS A MOCKER, excessive indulgence in it produces scorn and blasphemy in the drinker, STRONG DRINK IS RAGING, it robs a man of clear thinking and proper self-possession; AND WHOSOEVER IS DEC...
PROVERBS CHAPTER 20 WINE IS A MOCKER; wine immoderately drunk makes men mockers or scoffers at God and men. Compare HOSEA 7:5. STRONG DRINK IS RAGING; makes men full of rage and passion. IS NOT WISE;...
Proverbs 20:1 Wine H3196 mocker H3887 (H8801) drink H7941 brawler H1993 (H8802) astray H7686 (H8802) wise H2449 (H8799) Proverbs 23:29-35, Proverbs 31:4; Genesis 9:21-23,...
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...
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...
_Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise._ THE EVIL EFFECTS OF DRUNKENNESS I. It deadens every moral sensibility. And what is the evidence of the drun...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 20:1. STRONG DRINK. The Hebrew word _Shekhar_ includes every strong drink besides wine. Delitzsch translates it _mead_. PROVERBS 20:2. THE FEAR OF A KING, _i.e_., the dread...
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...
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,...
1 Corinthians 6:10; 1 Kings 20:16; 1 Samuel 25:36; 2 Samuel 11:13; 2 Samuel 13:28; Ephesians 5:18; Galatians 5:21; Genesis 19:31; Genesis 9:21;...
A mocker — Wine immoderately drunk makes men mockers. Raging — Makes men full of rage....