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Verse Proverbs 20:10. _DIVERS WEIGHTS AND DIVERS MEASURES_] _A peise
and a_ _peise; _- Old MS. Bible: from the French _pois_, weight.
Hebrew: "A stone and a stone; an ephah and an ephah." One the
_sta...
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See Proverbs 11:1 : Here perhaps, as a companion to Proverbs 20:9,
with a wider application to all judging one man by rules which we do
not apply to ourselves or to another....
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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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WEIGHTS... MEASURES. Hebrew "a stone and. stone, an ephah and an
ephah". Ephah put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Species),
App-6, for all kinds of weights and measures. There is no word for
"di...
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_Divers weights_ Lit. A STONE AND A STONE, AN EPHAH AND AN EPHAH;
different weights or measures to buy and to sell with, or when there
is risk of detection, and when fraud is safe. Comp. Deuteronomy
2...
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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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Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike
abomination to the LORD.
DIVERS WEIGHTS - Hebrew, 'a stone and a stone' - i:e., one weight in
buying; a different one in selling.
DIVE...
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20:10 measures, (b-4) Lit. 'A stone and a stone, an ephah and an
ephah.'...
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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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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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Shops use scales and measurements. If these are false, then the
shopkeeper is cheating the customer. Solomon says that the shopkeeper
has lied. God hates all lies....
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DIVERS WEIGHTS AND DIVERS MEASURES... — See above on Proverbs 11:1....
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אֶ֣בֶן וָ֭ אֶבֶן אֵיפָ֣ה וְ אֵיפָ֑ה
תֹּועֲבַ֥
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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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Differing weights, [and] differing measures, both of (e) them [are]
alike abomination to the LORD.
(e) Read (Proverbs 16:11)....
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_Measures. In commerce, (Calmet) as well as in judging. (St. Gregory
in Ezechiel iv.)_...
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Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike
abomination to the LORD. Even a child is known by his doings, whether
his work be pure, and whether it be right. The hearing ear, and the
se...
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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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DIVERS WEIGHTS, [AND] DIVERS MEASURES,.... Or, "a stone and a stone,
and an ephah and an ephah" d. Stones being in old time used in
weighing, and an "ephah" was a common measure among the Jews; and
th...
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V. 10. DIVERS WEIGHTS, stones as they were used for weights in
balances, AND DIVERS MEASURES, the reference being not only to the
vessels used in dry measure, but to every kind of measure, BOTH OF
THE...
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DIVERS WEIGHTS:
_ Heb._ A stone and a stone
MEASURES:
_ Heb._ an ephah, and an ephah...
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DIVERS WEIGHTS AND DIVERS MEASURES; one greater and true for public
show, and one lesser and false for private use, when they had an
opportunity of deceiving....
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Proverbs 20:10 weights H68 H68 measures H374 H374 both H8147 alike
H1571 abomination H8441 LORD H3068...
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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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_Divers weights and divers measures; both of them are alike
abomination to the Lord._
CAVEAT VENDITOR
I. Dishonesty in trade is various in its forms. “Divers weights and
divers measures. .. and a fa...
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 20:8 This catalog of proverbs looks at
judgment from various angles. The purpose of a KING, representing
human government, is to restrain evil through acts of judgment (v....
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 20:6. Miller reads the first clause of this verse, “_Much
of the mere man one calls his goodness_,” _i.e._, “Much that is
merely human.” He allows, however, that the usual re...
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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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Amos 8:4; Deuteronomy 25:13; Deuteronomy 25:13; Deuteronomy 7:25;...
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Divers — One greater for shew and one lesser for use....