Commentary Critical and Explanatory
Proverbs 20:23
Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
No JFB commentary on this verse.
Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
No JFB commentary on this verse.
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. P...
ABOMINATION, &C. See note on Proverbs 3:32....
See Proverbs 20:10, note....
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...
20:23 weights (g-2) See ver. 10....
1. RAGING] RV 'a brawler.' IS deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man sneer, quarrel and reel about....
This is similar to verse 10. Many people think that small lies do not matter. Solomon does not agree with this idea. Solomon repeats the lesson, because it is important. God hates all lies. V24 God d...
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....
תֹּועֲבַ֣ת יְ֭הוָה אֶ֣בֶן וָ אָ֑בֶן וּ מֹאזְנ
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...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
V. 23. DIVERS WEIGHTS ARE AN ABOMINATION UNTO THE LORD, AND A FALSE BALANCE IS NOT GOOD. Cf v. 10....
A FALSE BALANCE: _ Heb._ balance of deceit...
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....
Proverbs 20:23 weights H68 H68 abomination H8441 LORD H3068 dishonest H4820 scales H3976 good H2896 weights -...
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...
_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...
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
_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...
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,...
Amos 8:5; Ezekiel 45:10; Hosea 12:7; Proverbs 20:10...