Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Proverbs 20:11
The graces or the faults of children are not trifles. “The child is father of the man;” and the earliest actions are prophecies of the future, whether it will be pure and right, or unclean and evil.
The graces or the faults of children are not trifles. “The child is father of the man;” and the earliest actions are prophecies of the future, whether it will be pure and right, or unclean and evil.
Verse Proverbs 20:11. _EVEN A CHILD IS KNOWN BY HIS DOINGS_] That is, in general terms, the _effect_ shows the nature of the cause. "A childe is known by his conversation," says _Coverdale_. A child...
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...
PURE. accurate. RIGHT. correct....
_is known_ or, _maketh himself known_; betrays his true character, and gives presage of "his (life's) work." Comp. the familiar German proverb, "_Was ein Dörnchen werden will spitzt sich bei Zeiten_,...
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...
Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right. EVEN A CHILD IS KNOWN BY HIS DOINGS, WHETHER HIS WORK (BE) PURE, AND WHETHER (IT BE) RIGHT. A child gives ind...
1. RAGING] RV 'a brawler.' IS deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man sneer, quarrel and reel about....
A good child behaves well. A bad child behaves badly. We test children by their actions. God tests everybody by their actions. We all must do the things that please God. (Matthew 7:20)...
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....
EVEN A CHILD IS KNOWN BY HIS DOINGS... — The disposition soon shews itself; all the more reason, therefore, to train it betimes....
גַּ֣ם בְּ֭ מַעֲלָלָיו יִתְנַכֶּר ־נָ֑עַר אִם...
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...
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...
_Right. We may form some judgment of his future conduct, from the inclinations which he manifests in his infancy. Naturam expellas furca, tamen ipsa recurret,_ Et mala perrumpet furtim fastidia victr...
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...
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...
EVEN A CHILD IS KNOWN BY HIS DOINGS,.... As well as a man; "ye shall know them by their fruits", Matthew 7:16; professors and profane. So a child soon discovers its genius by its actions; it soon show...
Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work [be] pure, and whether [it be] right. Ver. 11. _Even a child is known by his doings, &c._]. Either for the better, as we see in young Joseph, Sam...
_A child is known by his doings_ Children discover their inclinations or dispositions by their childish speeches and carriages, as not having yet learned the art of dissembling: _whether his work be_,...
V. 11. EVEN A CHILD IS KNOWN BY HIS DOINGS, reveals his nature and character by his acts, WHETHER HIS WORK BE PURE, AND WHETHER IT BE RIGHT, there is no innocence in childhood, and children will be he...
EVEN A CHILD IS KNOWN BY HIS DOINGS; young children discover their inclinations or dispositions even by their childish speeches and carriages, as not having yet learnt the art of dissembling. WHETHER...
Proverbs 20:11 child H5288 known H5234 (H8691) deeds H4611 does H6467 pure H2134 right H3477...
Proverbs 20:11 I. The actions of children become, in process of time, their own doings. Children move before they act, and they live as mere animals before they act spiritually and morally. But in pr...
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...
_Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right._ A CHILD’S ACCOUNTABILITY The Bible recovers lost truths, as well as lost souls. The recovery of lost truth is...
WHO TOLD TALES? Even a child maketh himself known by his doings. Proverbs 20:11. If we were to search this church for a child who liked and admired a talebearer, and if we were to find one, I think...
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....
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...
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,...
Luke 1:15; Luke 1:66; Luke 2:46; Luke 2:47; Luke 6:43;...
Is known — The future disposition of a man may be probably conjectured from his childish manners....