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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....
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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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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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RUBIES. — See above on Proverbs 3:15.
LIPS OF KNOWLEDGE. — See above on Proverbs 18:4....
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יֵ֣שׁ זָ֭הָב וְ רָב ־פְּנִינִ֑ים וּ
כְלִ֥י יְ֝קָ֗ר שִׂפְתֵי ־דָֽעַת׃...
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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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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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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 H3627
but - Proverbs 3:15, Proverbs 8:11, Proverbs 10:20-21, Proverbs 15:7,...
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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 it suits them (v. Proverbs 20:14). Wisdom is...
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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; Proverbs
10:21; Proverbs 15:23; Proverbs 15:7; Proverbs 16:16; Proverbs 16:21;...
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The lips — But wise speeches are of far greater worth....