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Verse Proverbs 20:13. _LOVE NOT SLEEP, LEST THOU COME TO POVERTY_]
Sleep, indescribable in its nature, is an indescribable _blessing_;
but how often is it turned into a _curse_! It is like _food_; a
c...
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OPEN THINE EYES - Be vigilant and active. That is the secret of
prosperity....
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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....
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COME TO POVERTY. become dispossessed. Hebrew. _yarash._ See note on
Proverbs 6:11....
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Comp. Proverbs 6:9-11; Proverbs 19:15....
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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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Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou
shalt be satisfied with bread. Love not sleep, lest thou come to
poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread....
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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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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.
V2 An angr...
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OPEN THINE EYES. — Be up and stirring....
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אַל ־תֶּֽאֱהַ֣ב שֵׁ֭נָה פֶּן
־תִּוָּרֵ֑שׁ פְּקַ֖ח עֵינֶ֣יךָ
שְֽׂבַֽע ־לָֽחֶם׃...
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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 descri...
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_Sleep. Septuagint, "back-biting, that thou mayst not be taken off."
(Haydock)_...
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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
follow...
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LOVE NOT SLEEP, LEST THOU COME TO POVERTY,.... Sleep is a very great
natural blessing; it is a gift of God, what nature requires, and is
desirable; it is to be loved, though not immoderately; it is sw...
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Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, [and] thou
shalt be satisfied with bread.
Ver. 13. _Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty._] In sleep there
is no use either of sight o...
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_Love not sleep_ That is, immoderate sleep, nor sloth, or idleness.
Take sleep because necessity requires it, not from any love to it;
_lest thou come to poverty_ Lest thou reduce thyself to beggary....
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V. 13. LOVE NOT SLEEP, that associated with slothfulness, LEST THOU
COME TO POVERTY, that being the result of sloth; OPEN THINE EYES, with
the proper energy, industry, and vigor, AND THOU SHALT BE SAT...
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LOVE NOT SLEEP, i.e. immoderate sleep, or sloth, or idleness. Take
sleep because necessity requires it, not from any love to it. OPEN
THINE EYES; awake out of sleep, shake off sloth, and betake thysel...
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Proverbs 20:13 love H157 (H8799) sleep H8142 poverty H3423 (H8735)
Open H6491 (H8798) eyes H5869 satisfied H7646 (H8798) bread H3899
Love - Proverbs 6:9-11, Proverbs 10:4, Proverbs 12:11,...
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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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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 it suits them (v. Proverbs 20:14). Wisdom is...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 20:6. Miller reads the first clause of this verse, “_Much
of the mere man one calls his goodness_,” _i.e._, “Much that is
merely human.” He allows, however, that the usual r...
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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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1 Corinthians 15:34; 2 Thessalonians 3:10; Ephesians 5:14; Jonah 1:6;
Proverbs 10:4; Proverbs 12:11; Proverbs 13:4; Proverbs 19:15; Proverbs
24:30;...
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Open — Shake off sloth and betake thyself to thy employment with
diligence and vigour....