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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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CHILDREN. sons.
BLESSED. happy. See note on Proverbs 3:13....
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_walketh_ Rather, THAT WALKETH, R.V.
ὄς ἀναστρέφεται ἄμωμος ἐν
δικαιοσύνῃ, μακαρίους τοὺς παῖδας
αὐτοῦ καταλείψει, LXX....
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CHAPTER 20
TEXT Proverbs 20:1-10
1.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler;
And whosoever erreth thereby is not wise,
2.
The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion:
He that provoketh him...
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20:7 children (a-10) Or 'The righteous who walketh ... blessed shall
be ...'...
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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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The children benefit if their father is honest. If we are honest and
good, then God will help our children.
But only Jesus was really honest. Jesus is God (Colossians 2:9; John
10:30). If we trust Go...
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THE JUST MAN. — Comp. Proverbs 10:2.
HIS CHILDREN ARE BLESSED AFTER HIM. — Comp. 1 Kings 15:4; Jeremiah
33:20....
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מִתְהַלֵּ֣ךְ בְּ תֻמֹּ֣ו צַדִּ֑יק
אַשְׁרֵ֖י בָנָ֣יו...
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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 descrip...
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The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after
him. A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all
evil with his eyes. Who can say, I have made my heart clean...
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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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THE JUST [MAN] WALKETH IN HIS INTEGRITY,.... This is the faithful and
upright man, who is made righteous by the obedience of Christ; and
walks by faith in him, and according to the truth of the Gospel...
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_The just [man] walketh in his integrity: his children [are] blessed
after him._
Ver. 7. _The just man walketh in his integrity._] Walketh constantly;
_a_ not for a step or two only, when the good fi...
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_Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness_ “Most men are
ready enough to claim to themselves a large share of piety and
virtue;” _but a faithful man who can find?_ “Where is that man of
true...
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V. 7. THE JUST MAN WALKETH IN HIS INTEGRITY, he who in his innocence
conducts himself uprightly, righteously, HIS CHILDREN ARE BLESSED
AFTER HIM, if they follow him in his righteousness, the Lord's
bl...
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THE JUST MAN WALKETH IN HIS INTEGRITY; he proveth himself to be so not
only by his profession, of which he spoke in the former verse, but by
his sincere and unblamable conversation. His children are b...
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Proverbs 20:7 righteous H6662 walks H1980 (H8693) integrity H8537
children H1121 blessed H835 after H310
just -...
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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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_His children are blessed after him._
THE JUST MAN’S LEGACY
1. Anxiety about our family is natural, but we shall be wise if we
turn it into care about our own character. If we walk before the Lord
i...
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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 re...
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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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2 Corinthians 1:12; 3 John 1:3; 3 John 1:4; Acts 2:39; Genesis 17:7;...