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Verse Proverbs 20:14. IT IS _NAUGHT_, IT IS _NAUGHT, SAITH THE
BUYER_] How apt are men to decry the goods they wish to purchase, in
order that they may get them at a _cheaper rate_; and, when they ha...
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NAUGHT - Bad, worthless 2 Kings 2:19....
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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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NAUGHT... NAUGHT. very bad. Figure of speech _Epizeuxis_ (App-6), for
emphasis....
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_naught_ i.e. an inferior article. Comp. 2 Kings 2:19. By decrying it
he gets it cheap, and then goes his way and boasts of his cleverness.
Mr Bridges, in his _Commentary on Proverbs_, quotes here fro...
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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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It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his
way, then he boasteth.
IT IS NAUGHT, IT IS NAUGHT (THE WARE ON SALE IS BAD IN QUALITY AND
QUANTITY), SAITH THE BUYER. The repet...
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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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This buyer bargains for a cheap price. Perhaps he even cheats the
seller. The buyer says that the seller is selling something bad. But
later, he tells the opposite to his friends. He has bought someth...
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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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IT IS NAUGHT, SAITH THE BUYER. — He cries down the goods he wants to
purchase.
THEN HE BOASTETH. — How he has outdone the seller, and got the goods
below their value. For other notices of cheating in...
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רַ֣ע רַ֭ע יֹאמַ֣ר הַ קֹּונֶ֑ה וְ
אֹזֵ֥ל
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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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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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_Buyer. This is the common practice; yet it is not without exceptions.
St. Augustine (Trin. xiii. 3.) observes, that the mountebank having
promised to tell what every person had in his heart, many cam...
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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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[IT IS] NAUGHT, [IT IS] NAUGHT, SAITH THE BUYER,.... When he comes to
the shop of the seller, or to market to buy goods, he undervalues
them, says they are not so good as they should be, nor so cheap...
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Proverbs 20:14 [It is] naught, [it is] naught, saith the buyer: but
when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
Ver. 14. _It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer._] Or, Saith
the possessor, and so...
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_It is naught, it is naught._ The commodity is but of little worth;
_saith the buyer_ Namely, to the seller; he discommends it, that he
may bring down the price of it; _but when he is gone his way_ Ha...
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V. 14. IT IS NAUGHT, IT IS NAUGHT, SAITH THE BUYER, he insists that
the goods offered him are bad, worthless, in order to beat down the
price; BUT WHEN HE IS GONE HIS WAY, having gotten the better of...
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Proverbs 20:14 nothing H7451 H7451 cries H559 (H8799) buyer H7069
(H8802) gone H235 (H8801
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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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_It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his
way, then he boasteth._
FRAUD EXPOSED AND CONDEMNED
The man who would be really religious, must be influenced by religion
in ever...
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 20:13 These proverbs all relate to wealth.
Laziness leads to POVERTY (v. Proverbs 20:13). People will set a value
on something as
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 20:15. Here Miller reads, _There is gold_, etc., in _the lips
of knowledge_.
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 20:14_
BARGAINING
This proverb refers—
I. TO A WORLD-WIDE MANIFE...
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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 Thessalonians 4:6; Ecclesiastes 1:10; Hosea 12:7; Hosea 12:8...