Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Proverbs 20:5
Counsel — Designs of doing something of moment. Deep water — Is secret and hard to be discovered.
Counsel — Designs of doing something of moment. Deep water — Is secret and hard to be discovered.
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...
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...
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...
_will draw it out_ as from a well, as the Queen of Sheba did, 1 Kings 10....
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...
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...
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...
1. RAGING] RV 'a brawler.' IS deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man sneer, quarrel and reel about....
A clever cross-questioner elicits one's plans....
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...
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....
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...
מַ֣יִם עֲ֭מֻקִּים עֵצָ֣ה בְ לֶב ־אִ֑ישׁ וְ
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...
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...
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...
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...
_Out. So David discovered the meaning of the Thecuite, 2 Kings xiv. 18. A wise politician carefully examines everything in a foreign court._...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
V. 5. COUNSEL IN THE HEART OF MAN IS LIKE DEEP WATER, for his plans are hidden in his innermost heart; BUT A MAN OF UNDERSTANDING, one who knows how to deal with men, WILL DRAW IT OUT, he will judge t...
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....
Proverbs 20:5 Counsel H6098 heart H3820 man H376 deep H6013 water H4325 man H376 understanding H8394 out H1802 ...
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...
_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...
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...
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,...
1 Corinthians 2:11; Proverbs 18:4; Psalms 64:6...