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Verse Proverbs 20:20. _WHOSO CURSETH HIS FATHER_] Such persons were
put to death under the law; see Exodus 21:17; Leviticus 20:9, and here
it is said, Their _lamp shall be put out_-they shall have no...
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A connecting link between Leviticus 20:9 and Matthew 15:4. The words,
“his lamp shall be put out,” describe the failure of outward
happiness....
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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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CURSETH. revileth.
LAMP SHALL BE PUT OUT.. Figure of speech _Hypocatastasis_ (App-6),
denoting that he shall die childless....
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_obscure darkness_ Better, THE BLACKEST DARKNESS, R.V. Lit. _the
pupil_(of the eye) _of darkness_(comp. "in the pupil of night,"
Proverbs 7:9, and note): i.e. in the darkest part, as the pupil is of
t...
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TEXT Proverbs 20:11-20
11.
Even a child maketh himself known by his doings,
Whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
12.
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye,
Jehovah hath made even bot...
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Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in
obscure darkness.
WHOSO CURSETH HIS FATHER ... HIS LAMP (THE TEMPORARY PROSPERITY WHICH
HE MAY HAVE) SHALL BE PUT OUT IN OBSCUR...
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20:20 blackest (e-16) Lit. 'the eyeball of.' see ch. 7.9....
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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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We must respect our parents. God orders us to do this. See Deuteronomy
5:16, and Matthew 15:4-6.
The second line of verse 20 means that this man deserves death. A man
who insults his parents deserves...
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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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HIS LAMP SHALL BE PUT OUT IN OBSCURE DARKNESS. — See above, on
Proverbs 13:9....
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מְ֭קַלֵּל אָבִ֣יו וְ אִמֹּ֑ו
יִֽדְעַ֥ךְ נֵ֝רֹ֗ו _בֶּ_†
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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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_Lamp. Prosperity, or children._...
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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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WHOSO CURSETH HIS FATHER OR HIS MOTHER,.... This is dreadful indeed! a
person must be got to a great pitch of wickedness to do this; to curse
his parents, one or other of them, that have been the inst...
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Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in
obscure darkness.
Ver. 20. _Whoso curseth his father, &c._] _See Trapp on "_ Exo 21:17
_"_ _See Trapp on "_ Mat 15:4 _"_ Parents u...
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LAMP:
Or, candle...
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OR HIS MOTHER, Heb. _and his mother_; which is used for _or_, EXODUS
12:5 LEVITICUS 6:3, and elsewhere. HIS LAMP; his comfort and
happiness, his name and memory, which are oft compared in Scripture to...
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Proverbs 20:20 curses H7043 (H8764) father H1 mother H517 lamp H5216
out H1846 (H8799) deep H380 ...
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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 20:20 The person who despises parental
authority will eventually face UTTER DARKNESS (compare Exodus 20:12)....
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_MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 20:20_
AN UNNATURAL CHILD AND A NATURAL LAW
I. AN UNNATURAL CHILD. The ungrateful son or daughter of good parents
is an unnatural being. If experience did not contradict,...
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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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Deuteronomy 27:16; Exodus 20:12; Exodus 21:17; Job 18:18; Job 18:5;...
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Lamp — His name and memory shall utterly perish....