v. 30. The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil, literally, "Wounding stripes purge away evil"; so do stripes the inward parts of the belly, for a proper measure of severe discipline penetrates to the depths of the heart and removes the desire for evil, all punishment, rightly administered, having this object.
Verse Proverbs 20:30. _THE BLUENESS OF A WOUND_] חברות _chabburoth_, from חבר _chabar_, to _unite_, to _join together_. Does it not refer to the cicatrice of a wound when, in its healing, the two lip...
Better, The blueness of a wound is a cleansing of evil, so are the stripes that go down to the inward parts of the belly. The open sores of wounds left by the scourge, unclean and foul as they seem, a...
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...
CLEANSETH AWAY. is cleansing. Supply the Ellipsis (App-6), "[though it be] an evil". EVIL. Hebrew. _ra'a'._ App-44. BELLY. Supply the Ellipsis from preceding clause, "[though they be an evil]...
_the blueness of a wound_ Lit. STRIPES OF (such as to cause) A WOUND. Render, with R.V., STRIPES THAT WOUND CLEANSE AWAY EVIL: AND STROKES REACH THE INNERMOST PARTS OF THE BELLY. The expression,...
THE BLUENESS OF A WOUND— This is a very obscure passage. I think, says Dr. Grey, Le Clerc's interpretation the best I have met with; that a wicked man, who has received due correction for his crimes,...
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 blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly. THE BLUENESS OF A WOUND (SEVERE CHASTISEMENT, OF WHICH BLUENESS OF A WOUND IS THE SIGN) CLEANSETH AWAY EVIL...
20:30 belly. (k-14) As ch. 18.8....
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....
Nobody likes pain. But a wound often heals, whilst it hurts. The body removes the bad part of the wound, and this hurts. In Solomon’s country, judges might punish a guilty man with the whip. The seco...
THE BLUENESS OF A WOUND. — Rather, _the stripes of a wound,_ or wounds which cut into the flesh, cleanse away evil. SO DO STRIPES THE INWARD PARTS OF THE BELLY. — Better, _and blows_ (which reach) _th...
חַבֻּרֹ֣ות פֶּ֭צַע _תַּמְר֣וּק_† בְּ רָ֑ע וּ֝ מַכֹּ֗ות
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...
(k) The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so [do] stripes the inward parts of the belly. (k) Sharp punishment that pierces even the inward parts is profitable for the wicked to bring them to a...
_Evils. The wicked shall derive benefit from correction. --- Belly. They shall feel the remorse of conscience, as Chaldean seems to indicate. (Calmet) --- A serious illness often causes people to repe...
REFLECTIONS. I hope that the Reader is perpetually gathering sweet instructions from this part of the word of God; and in nothing more so, than in the discovery of his own incompetency to enter far in...
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 BLUENESS OF A WOUND CLEANSETH AWAY EVIL,.... Rubs it off and scours it away, as the word m signifies, or is a clearing and rubbing it off; some men must be beaten black and blue, or must have very...
The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so [do] stripes the inward parts of the belly. Ver. 30. _The blueness of the wound cleanseth._] Some must be beaten black and blue ere they will be better...
_The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil_ Grievous wounds which make men black and blue, or severe punishments, are the means which are frequently most effectual to reclaim a wicked man, and to pu...
CLEANSETH AWAY EVIL: _ Heb._ is a purging medicine against evil...
THE BLUENESS OF A WOUND, grievous wounds, which make men black and blue, or severe punishments, CLEANSETH AWAY EVIL; are the most effectual means to reclaim a wicked man, and to purge out his corrupti...
Proverbs 20:30 Blows H2250 hurt H6482 cleanse H8562 evil H7451 stripes H4347 depths H2315 heart H990 cleanseth away evil - Heb. is a
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...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 20:30. THE BLUENESS OF A WOUND. _Cutting wounds (Delitzsch_), _Wounding stripes (Zöckler_). Miller translates the “_welts_” (_i.e._, the tumid and purple confines of a wound)...
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,...
Hebrews 12:10; Isaiah 27:9; Proverbs 19:25; Proverbs 22:15...
The blueness — Grievous wounds, which make men black and blue; or severe punishments. Cleanseth — Are the means to reclaim a wicked man, and to purge out his corruption. The belly — Of the heart. Grie...