Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Proverbs 20:15
A precious jewel - literally, “A vessel of preciousness,” i. e., most precious of all are “the lips of knowledge.”
A precious jewel - literally, “A vessel of preciousness,” i. e., most precious of all are “the lips of knowledge.”
Verse Proverbs 20:15. _THERE IS GOLD_] _Gold_ is valuable, _silver_ is valuable, and so are _jewels_; but the _teachings_ of _sound knowledge_ are more valuable than all....
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...
_rubies_ The R.V. retains this word, but refers to Job 28:18, where it gives in the margin, or, _red coral_, or, _pearls_. See Proverbs 3:15, note....
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...
There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel. THERE IS GOLD, AND A MULTITUDE OF RUBIES: BUT THE LIPS OF KNOWLEDGE (DISCREET GODLY SPEECH) (ARE) A PRECIO...
20:15 Jewel. (c-17) Or 'vessel.'...
1. RAGING] RV 'a brawler.' IS deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man sneer, quarrel and reel about....
Read, 'There is gold and abundance of corals and precious vessels—wise lips are all these.'...
Gold and precious stones seem valuable. They are beautiful and expensive. But many people own them. And these things are not very useful. Knowledge is useful. Knowledge is more valuable than gold or...
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....
RUBIES. — See above on Proverbs 3:15. LIPS OF KNOWLEDGE. — See above on Proverbs 18:4....
יֵ֣שׁ זָ֭הָב וְ רָב ־פְּנִינִ֑ים וּ כְלִ֥י
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...
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...
THERE IS GOLD, AND A MULTITUDE OF RUBIES,.... A man may have a large quantity of either, or of both of thorn, as some men have; for there is much of them in the world, not only in mines and quarries,...
There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge [are] a precious jewel. Ver. 15. _There is gold and a multitude of rubies._] Quintilian defines an orator, _Vir bonus dicendi perit...
_There is gold_, &c. Namely, in the world, in divers persons' hands, by whom it is much prized; _but the lips of knowledge_ Wise speeches, proceeding from a well-informed and upright mind, _are a prec...
V. 15. THERE IS GOLD AND A MULTITUDE OF RUBIES, or pearls, such trinkets are found in abundance in the world; BUT THE LIPS OF KNOWLEDGE ARE A PRECIOUS JEWEL, they are rare indeed in the world....
THERE IS GOLD, to wit, in the world, in divers men's hands, by whom it is highly prized. BUT THE LIPS OF KNOWLEDGE ARE A PRECIOUS JEWEL; but wise speeches proceeding from an understanding or honest he...
Proverbs 20:15 is H3426 gold H2091 multitude H7230 rubies H6443 lips H8193 knowledge H1847 precious H3366 jewel H36
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...
_There is gold, and a multitude of rubies._ ON THE MORAL END OF BUSINESS Let me define my meaning in the use of this phrase--“the moral end of business.” It is not the end for which property should b...
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 20:15. Here Miller reads, _There is gold_, etc., in _the lips of knowledge_. _MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 20:14_ BARGAINING This proverb refers— I. TO A WORLD-WIDE MANIFE...
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,...
Ecclesiastes 12:9; Ephesians 4:29; Job 28:12; Proverbs 10:20;...
The lips — But wise speeches are of far greater worth....