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Proverbs 20:16
You cannot trust this man’s promise. He has promised on behalf of a foreigner. Perhaps the man is hiding an evil secret. Therefore, you must keep his coat, until he pays. See also Exodus 22:26-27.
You cannot trust this man’s promise. He has promised on behalf of a foreigner. Perhaps the man is hiding an evil secret. Therefore, you must keep his coat, until he pays. See also Exodus 22:26-27.
Verse Proverbs 20:16. _TAKE HIS GARMENT THAT IS SURETY_ FOR _A STRANGER_] I suppose the meaning to be, If a stranger or unknown person become surety in a case, greater caution should be used, and such...
The warning against suretiship and lust are here repeated and combined (compare Proverbs 27:13). The judge tells the creditor to seize the goods of the surety who has been weak enough to pledge himsel...
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...
STRANGER. apostate. Hebrew. _zur._ See notes on Proverbs 2:16; Proverbs 5:3. PLEDGE OF HIM. Supply Figure of speech _Ellipsis_ (App-6), "[Who has become security for]. foreign woman. " STRANGE WOMAN....
_Take his garment_ The Law of Moses recognised and regulated distraint on clothing as security for the repayment of a loan or debt (Exodus 22:26-27; Deuteronomy 24:10-13. Comp. Matthew 5:40). The prov...
AND TAKE A PLEDGE OF HIM FOR A STRANGE WOMAN— _And pawn him to foreigners._...
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...
Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman. TAKE HIS GARMENT THAT IS SURETY (FOR) A STRANGER - addressed to the creditor. Take from the surety the...
20:16 strangers. (d-16) Some read 'the strange woman,' conforming this passage to ch. 27.13....
'Strangers,' not A STRANGE WOMAN. He does not deserve to escape the consequences of his folly....
1. RAGING] RV 'a brawler.' IS deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man sneer, quarrel and reel about....
TAKE HIS GARMENT THAT IS SURETY FOR A STRANGER. — Another warning against suretiship. (See above on Proverbs 6:1.) If a man is rash enough to become surety for another, he must suffer for his impruden...
לְֽקַח ־בִּ֭גְדֹו כִּי ־עָ֣רַב זָ֑ר וּ בְעַ֖ד
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...
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...
“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...
Take his (f) garment that is surety [for] a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman. (f) Teach him wit, that he cast not himself rashly into danger....
_Strangers. For whom he has bound himself foolishly, chap. vi. 1. All who have the care of others, must answer for them. (Calmet)_...
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...
TAKE HIS GARMENT THAT IS SURETY [FOR] A STRANGER,.... Which a man is cautioned against, Proverbs 6:1; but if a man will be so weak and foolish, others ought to take care of him, and be cautious how th...
Take his garment that is surety [for] a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman. Ver. 16. _Take his garment._] And so provide for their own indemnity. _See Trapp on "_ Pro 6:1 _"_ _See...
_Take his garment_, &c. Namely, as a pledge, without which he ought not to be trusted, because, by the action referred to, he shows himself to be foolish, and takes the ready way to make himself a beg...
V. 16. TAKE HIS GARMENT THAT IS SURETY FOR A STRANGER, for one so foolish and inconsiderate might as well hand it over at once, since he will surely lose it, AND TAKE A PLEDGE OF HIM FOR A STRANGE WOM...
TAKE HIS GARMENT, to wit, as a pledge, without which he ought not to be trusted, because by this action he showeth himself to be a fool, and he taketh the ready way to beggary. OBJECT. This precept co...
Proverbs 20:16 Take H3947 (H8798) garment H899 surety H6148 (H8804) stranger H2114 (H8801) pledge H2254 ...
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...
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
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 20:16. A STRANGE WOMAN. Rather, “_a stranger_.” _MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 20:16_ NECESSARY SECURITY I. AN UNTRUSTWORTHY CREDITOR. A man who under ordinary circumstances...
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,...
Exodus 22:26; Exodus 22:27; Proverbs 11:15; Proverbs 2:16; Prove
Take — As a pledge, without which he ought not to be trusted. Of him — That is surety....