Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Proverbs 20:18
Established — The way to bring our purposes to good effect is to manage them with serious consideration.
Established — The way to bring our purposes to good effect is to manage them with serious consideration.
Verse Proverbs 20:18. _WITH GOOD ADVICE MAKE WAR,_] Perhaps there is not a precept in this whole book so little regarded as this. Most of the _wars_ that are undertaken are wars of injustice, ambitio...
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...
_with good advice_ or, _by wise guidance_, R.V., _make war_. Comp. Luke 14:31-32....
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...
Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war. AND WITH GOOD ADVICE MAKE WAR - for victory is more often obtained by skill than by strength. First sit down and count the co...
1. RAGING] RV 'a brawler.' IS deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man sneer, quarrel and reel about....
Be careful when you make an important decision! When a king goes to war, people will die. He must not decide to go to war while he is angry. He must think carefully. He must obtain good advice, from...
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....
מַ֭חֲשָׁבֹות בְּ עֵצָ֣ה תִכֹּ֑ון וּ֝ בְ תַחְב
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 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...
“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...
_Governments. Or prudence, else the best designs may prove abortive._...
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...
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...
[EVERY] PURPOSE IS ESTABLISHED BY COUNSEL,.... Or "the thought" f of a man, everyone of them, what he has thought to do, formed a scheme of in his mind, and resolved upon, by taking advice of his frie...
__ Proverbs 20:18 _[Every] purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war._ Ver. 18. _Every purpose is established by counsel._] That thy proceedings be not either unconstant or un...
_Every purpose is established by counsel_ “Rashness spoils the best designs, which must be carried on prudently, and with good advice, if we would have them to prove successful.” _And with good advice...
V. 18. EVERY PURPOSE IS ESTABLISHED BY COUNSEL, definite plans should be formulated only after a careful consultation with such as are in a position to advise; AND WITH GOOD ADVICE MAKE WAR, after con...
EVERY PURPOSE IS ESTABLISHED BY COUNSEL; the way to bring our purposes and desires to a good effect, is to manage them with serious consideration and good advice. _And_; or, _therefore_. This is neces...
Proverbs 20:18 Plans H4284 established H3559 (H8735) counsel H6098 counsel H8458 wage H6213 (H8798) war...
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...
_Every purpose is established by counsel._ COUNSEL “Of all apostolic habits the most habitual,” writes arehbishop Benson, “was the usage of counsel. The upper chamber, the house, the home of Mary, Je...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 20:18. The first clause may be read, _Establish thy purpose by counsel_. PROVERBS 20:19. “HIM THAT FLATTERETH.” Rather, _him that openeth wide his lips, i.e._, the babbler....
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 Chronicles 25:17; 2 Samuel 2:26; 2 Samuel 2:27; Judges 1:1; Judges