Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Proverbs 20:3
v. 3. It is an honor for a man to cease from strife, to dwell and remain far from quarrels, neither to provoke nor to promote them; but every fool will be meddling, foolishly starting quarrels.
v. 3. It is an honor for a man to cease from strife, to dwell and remain far from quarrels, neither to provoke nor to promote them; but every fool will be meddling, foolishly starting quarrels.
Verse Proverbs 20:3. IT IS _AN HONOUR FOR A MAN_] The same sentiment as Proverbs 19:11....
MEDDLING - See Proverbs 17:14 note....
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...
TO CEASE FROM STRIFE. Illustrations: Abraham (Genesis 13:7. Compare Proverbs 17:14); David (1 Samuel 25:32). FOOL. Hebrew. _'evil._ See note on...
_cease_ For the same sense of the English word, _refrain_or _stand aloof from_, R.V., comp. Psalms 37:8; Isaiah 1:16. _meddling_ R.V.; Rather, QUARRELLING, R.V. See Proverbs 17:14, note....
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...
It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling. It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling. (IT IS) AN HONOUR FOR A MAN TO CEAS...
20:3 cease (k-9) Or 'keep away.'...
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....
A wise man tries not to argue. He is polite - see Acts 26:2-3. Sometimes he says nothing, to avoid an argument - see Mark 14:61. But sometimes he must speak, although other people will be angry (Mark...
BUT EVERY FOOL. — Self-willed person. (Comp. Proverbs 1:22.) WILL BE MEDDLING. — Or, rather, _shewing his teeth:_ (Comp. Proverbs 17:14) thinking that his own personal dignity is at stake....
כָּבֹ֣וד לָ֭ † אִישׁ שֶׁ֣בֶת מֵ רִ֑יב...
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...
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...
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...
_Reproaches. It is better not to commence a lawsuit, even when we are in the right, chap. xvii. 11. (Calmet) --- Plena victoria est ad clamantem tacere. (Val. Max.)_...
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul. It i...
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...
[IT IS] AN HONOUR FOR A MAN TO CEASE FROM STRIFE,.... As Abraham did, Genesis 13:7; when engaged in a quarrel with his neighbour, or in a lawsuit, or in a religious controversy, especially when he fin...
Proverbs 20:3 [It is] an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling. Ver. 3. _It is an honour for a man to cease from strife._] To stint it rather than to stir it; to be f...
_The fear of a king_, &c. See on Proverbs 16:14; Proverbs 19:12. _It is an honour to a man to cease from strife_ Either to prevent it, or, if it be begun, to put an end to it: which, although proud an...
TO CEASE FROM STRIFE; either to prevent it, or, if it be begun, to put an end to it; which, although proud and profane persons esteem dishonourable to them, is indeed their glory, because it is an evi...
Proverbs 20:3 honorable H3519 man H376 stop H7674 striving H7379 fool H191 quarrel H1566 (H8691) an -...
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...
_It is an honour for a man to cease from strife._ THE LAW OF HONOUR The rules of life by which men are ordinarily governed are the law of honour, the law of the land, and the law of God. It is the ob...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 20:1. STRONG DRINK. The Hebrew word _Shekhar_ includes every strong drink besides wine. Delitzsch translates it _mead_. PROVERBS 20:2. THE FEAR OF A KING, _i.e_., the dread...
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,...
2 Kings 14:9; Ephesians 1:6; Ephesians 4:32; Ephesians 5:1; James 3:14
Meddling — Is always ready to begin strife, and obstinate in the continuance of it....