George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Proverbs 20:29
CHAPTER XX.
Hairs, and experience. They have a greater contempt of death and pleasures. (St. Ambrose, Hex. i. 8.)
CHAPTER XX.
Hairs, and experience. They have a greater contempt of death and pleasures. (St. Ambrose, Hex. i. 8.)
Verse Proverbs 20:29. _THE GLORY OF YOUNG MEN_ IS _THEIR STRENGTH_] Scarcely any young man affects to be wise, learned, c. but all delight to _show their strength_ and to be _reputed strong_. _Agility...
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...
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...
The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head. THE GLORY OF YOUNG MEN (IS) THEIR STRENGTH (SO LONG AS THEY RIGHTLY USE IT); AND THE BEAUTY OF OLD MEN (IS) THE...
1. RAGING] RV 'a brawler.' IS deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man sneer, quarrel and reel about....
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....
We respect a youth’s strength. We call young people ‘champions’ and ‘heroes’ when they win in sports. We must also respect old people. Their grey hair reminds us about their long lives. Often old peo...
THE BEAUTY OF OLD MEN IS THE GREY HEAD. — As suggesting the possession of experience and wisdom. It is the fault of the aged, therefore, if they do not receive the honour due to them, and this arises...
תִּפְאֶ֣רֶת בַּחוּרִ֣ים כֹּחָ֑ם וַ הֲדַ֖ר זְקֵנִ֣ים...
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...
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...
It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry. A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them. The spirit of man is the candle of the L...
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...
THE GLORY OF YOUNG MEN [IS] THEIR STRENGTH,.... That is the excellent thing in them, and it is to their honour when it is employed in the service of their king and country, and especially in the servi...
The glory of young men [is] their strength: and the beauty of old men [is] the gray head. Ver. 29. _The glory of young men is their strength._] If well used in following their callings, and fighting...
_The glory of young men_ That wherein they glory as their privilege above old men; _is their strength_ Namely, of body, and vigour and courage of mind; their fitness for action, their ability to go th...
V. 29. THE GLORY OF YOUNG MEN IS THEIR STRENGTH, for they are in the first flush of their manhood, and their physical power is at its best; AND THE BEAUTY OF OLD MEN IS THE GRAY HEAD, which gives dign...
THE GLORY OF YOUNG MEN; that wherein they glory as their privilege above old men. THE BEAUTY OF OLD MEN IS THE GREY HEAD, i.e. their old age, expressed by the outward sign of it, wherein they glory as...
Proverbs 20:29 glory H8597 men H970 strength H3581 splendor H1926 men H2205 head H7872 glory -...
Proverbs 20:29 I. The glory of young men is their physical strength. In the great battle against the kingdom of darkness we want, not only a consecrated soul, but a strong arm, stout lungs, and vigor...
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...
_The glory of young men is their strength._ THE GLORY OF YOUNG MEN Power, force, might, strength, are divers names for a thing which always has been, and always will be, admirable in human esteem. In...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 20:29_ THE GLORY OF YOUTH AND AGE I. EACH PERIOD OF LIFE HAS A VALUE AND A GLORY OF ITS OWN. There is a beauty in spring to which no other season of the year can approach...
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,...
1 John 2:14; Jeremiah 9:23; Jeremiah 9:24; Leviticus 19:32; Pro