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                        Verse Proverbs 20:5. _COUNSEL IN THE HEART OF MAN_] Men of the
deepest and most comprehensive minds are rarely apt, unsolicited, to
join in any discourse, in which they might appear even to the great... 
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                        The contest between reticence on the one side and pertinacity in
search on the other is represented as by a parable. The well may be
very deep (compare the marginal reference), but the man of
understa... 
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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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                        _will draw it out_ as from a well, as the Queen of Sheba did, 1 Kings
10.... 
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                        COUNSEL IN THE HEART OF MAN, &C.— There is hardly any thing but may
be compassed by wisdom: for though the designs and intentions of
another man, especially one who has a deep understanding, are as ha... 
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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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                        Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of
understanding will draw it out. 
 COUNSEL IN THE HEART OF MAN (IS LIKE) DEEP WATER (THE CUNNING OF
MEN'S HEART IS LIKE AN UNFATHOMABLE DE... 
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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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                        A clever cross-questioner elicits one's plans.... 
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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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                        Sometimes it is difficult to help a friend. Often a friend does not
want to talk. He does not want to explain his problems. A wise person
will speak gently to his friend. The wise person will encourag... 
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                        COUNSEL IN THE HEART OF MAN IS LIKE DEEP WATER. — The wise thoughts
of a “man,” fitly so-called (comp. Proverbs 18:4), may be hid deep
in his breast, like the waters of a well, but a man of understand... 
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                        מַ֣יִם עֲ֭מֻקִּים עֵצָ֣ה בְ לֶב
־אִ֑ישׁ וְ 
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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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                        Counsel in the heart of (c) man [is like] deep water; but a man of
understanding will draw it out.
(c) It is hard to find out: for it is as deep waters, whose bottom
cannot be found: yet the wise man... 
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                        _Out. So David discovered the meaning of the Thecuite, 2 Kings xiv.
18. A wise politician carefully examines everything in a foreign
court._... 
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                        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... 
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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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                        COUNSEL IN THE HEART OF MAN [IS LIKE] DEEP WATER,.... Pure and
undisturbed, but secret, hidden, and hard to be come at: such are the
things of the spirit of a man, the thoughts of his mind, the device... 
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                        Counsel in the heart of man [is like] deep water; but a man of
understanding will draw it out.
Ver. 5. _Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water._] See
Proverbs 18:4. As the red rose, though ou... 
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                        _Counsel in the heart of man_ Either, 1st, Ability to give counsel;
or, 2d, The design or purpose of doing something of importance; for
the word עצה, here rendered _counsel_, is frequently used in bot... 
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                        COUNSEL; either,
1. Wisdom or ability to give good counsel; or,
2. Designs or purposes of doing something of moment; for this word is
frequently used in both senses, but the last seems fittest here.... 
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                        Proverbs 20:5 Counsel H6098 heart H3820 man H376 deep H6013 water
H4325 man H376 understanding H8394 out H1802 ... 
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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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                        _Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of
understanding will draw it out._
The getting of wisdom from the wise:
I. Wisdom to man is a very valuable thing.
1. It improves the sph... 
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                        CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 20:5. COUNSEL. Delitzsch translates this word
“_purpose_,” and understands it to refer to a secret plan.
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 20:5_
DEEP SEA DREDGING
I. Much that... 
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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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                        1 Corinthians 2:11; Proverbs 18:4; Psalms 64:6... 
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                        Counsel — Designs of doing something of moment. Deep water — Is
secret and hard to be discovered....