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Verse Proverbs 20:22. _I WILL RECOMPENSE EVIL_] Wait on the Lord;
judgment is his, and his judgments are sure. In the mean time pray for
the conversion of your enemy....
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God’s awarding to everyone according to his works, is the true check
to the spirit of vindictiveness (compare Romans 12:17, Romans 12:19).
Note that man is not told to wait on the Lord in expectation...
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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.
P...
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ON. for....
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Comp. Romans 12:17; Romans 12:19....
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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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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....
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Sometimes we want to punish people who hurt us. This is not a good
attitude. We should forgive people (Romans 12:17-21). We should even
love our enemies (Matthew 5:44). But God will punish evil people...
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WAIT ON THE LORD AND HE SHALL SAVE THEE. — Do not look for vengeance
on enemies (for they are to be forgiven), but for deliverance from
their attacks; forget their malice, remember only God’s love for...
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אַל ־תֹּאמַ֥ר אֲשַׁלְּמָה ־רָ֑ע
קַוֵּ֥ה לַֽ֝...
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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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CHAPTER 17
A JUST BALANCE
"A just balance and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag
are His work."- Proverbs 16:11
"A false balance is an abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is...
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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 bent...
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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 descrip...
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_Evil. And revenge myself. This belongs to the Lord, Deuteronomy
xxxii. 35. Man would be too favourable to himself, and would also
pronounce his own condemnation, as he is also a sinner._...
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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
followe...
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SAY NOT THOU, I WILL RECOMPENSE EVIL,.... With evil; do an injury to
one that has done one to you; private revenge is not to be taken, but
should be left to God, to whom vengeance belongs,
Deuteronom...
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Say not thou, I will recompense evil; [but] wait on the LORD, and he
shall save thee.
Ver. 22. _Say not thou, I will recompense evil._] Much less, swear
it, as some miscreants do; to whom, _Est vindi...
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_Say not thou, I will recompense evil_ While we live in the world, we
must expect to have injuries done us, affronts given, and much trouble
wrongfully created to us. But we must not revenge ourselves...
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V. 22. SAY NOT THOU, I WILL RECOMPENSE EVIL, avenging evil with evil
after the manner practiced by the ungodly; BUT WAIT ON THE LORD,
placing the outcome entirely in His hands, AND HE SHALL SAVE THEE....
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SAY NOT THOU IN THY HEART; give not way to any such evil thoughts or
purposes. WAIT ON THE LORD, to whom it belongs to execute vengeance,
and to deliver his people from all their enemies....
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Proverbs 20:22 say H559 (H8799) recompense H7999 (H8762) evil H7451
Wait H6960 (H8761) LORD H3068 save...
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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 20:22 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
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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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1 Peter 2:23; 1 Peter 3:9; 1 Peter 4:19; 1 Thessalonians 5:15;...