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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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ABOMINATION, &C. See note on Proverbs 3:32....
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See Proverbs 20:10, note....
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TEXT Proverbs 20:21-30
21.
An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning;
But the end thereof shall not be blessed.
22.
Say not thou, I will recompense evil:
Wait for Jehovah, and he wil...
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_DIVERS WEIGHTS ARE AN ABOMINATION UNTO THE LORD; AND A FALSE BALANCE
IS NOT GOOD._
No JFB commentary on this verse....
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20:23 weights (g-2) See ver. 10....
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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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תֹּועֲבַ֣ת יְ֭הוָה אֶ֣בֶן וָ אָ֑בֶן
וּ מֹאזְנֵ֖י מִרְמָ֣ה לֹא ־טֹֽוב׃...
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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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“THE GLORY OF YOUNG MEN”
Proverbs 20:16-30
What a wonderful thought is given in Proverbs 20:27! We stand like a
row of unlighted candles until God's Spirit kindles us. Has the Divine
Nature ever ben...
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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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DIVERS WEIGHTS [ARE] AN ABOMINATION UNTO THE LORD,....
Proverbs 20:10; which is here repeated for the further confirmation of
it, and that it might be taken notice of and avoided; and perhaps this
si...
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Divers weights [are] an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance
[is] not good.
Ver. 23. _Divers weights are an abomination._] In righting and
revenging themselves men are apt to weigh things i...
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V. 23. DIVERS WEIGHTS ARE AN ABOMINATION UNTO THE LORD, AND A FALSE
BALANCE IS NOT GOOD. Cf v. 10....
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A FALSE BALANCE:
_ Heb._ balance of deceit...
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DIVERS WEIGHTS ARE AN ABOMINATION UNTO THE LORD; of which SEE POOLE ON
"PROVERBS 20:10". IS NOT GOOD; is very wicked and hateful to God and
men....
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Proverbs 20:23 weights H68 H68 abomination H8441 LORD H3068 dishonest
H4820 scales H3976 good H2896
weights - Proverbs 20:10; Ezekiel 45:10
a false balance - Heb. balances of deceit, Hosea 12:7; Amo...
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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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_And a false balance is not good._
FALSE BALANCE APPLIED TO PROVIDENCES
We may apply a false balance to the providences which make up our
life. What skill some people have in dealing only in dark thi...
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 20:22 These four proverbs teach that God,
not people (v. Proverbs 20:22), is the judge and avenger. He detests
all unfair bias in human judgment, as represented by uneven SCA...
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_MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 20:22_
THE RECOMPENSER OF EVIL
I. THE MAN WHO HAS BEEN WRONGED IS DISQUALIFIED TO PUNISH THE
OFFENDER. A sense of pain and suffering is not helpful to a man’s
judgment. H...
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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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Amos 8:5; Ezekiel 45:10; Hosea 12:7; Proverbs 20:10...