Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Proverbs 20:4
Plowing time in Palestine is in November and December, when the wind blows commonly from the North.
Plowing time in Palestine is in November and December, when the wind blows commonly from the North.
Verse Proverbs 20:4. _THE SLUGGARD WILL NOT PLOUGH_] For other parts of this character, see the preceding chapter. It is seldom that there is a _season_ of very cold weather in Palestine; very cold _...
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...
PLOW. Plowing always done during the early rains. COLD. autumn. Put by Figure of speech _Metalepsis,_ "cold" put for Autumn, and "Autumn" put for abundance of fruits possessed at that time. THEREFOR...
_cold_ Rather, WINTER, A.V. marg. and R.V. See Genesis 8:22, where the Heb. word here used is rendered "winter," and another Heb. word is used for "cold." _beg_ This rendering, which is retained in R....
DISCOURSE: 800 THE CONSEQUENCE OF SLOTH Proverbs 20:4. _The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold: therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing_. ARGUMENTS from analogy, when the analog...
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...
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing. THE SLUGGARD WILL NOT PLOW BY REASON OF THE COLD - Hebrew, the winter. Disinclination is neve...
1. RAGING] RV 'a brawler.' IS deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man sneer, quarrel and reel about....
Read, 'In the autumn.. therefore when he seeketh,' etc.: the first season begins about October, the second about April....
Solomon uses humour here. The farmer in verse 4 was too lazy to plough his land. When the harvest is due, he gets a bad surprise. There is no food. Even a stupid farmer knows that he must plough the...
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....
מֵ֭ חֹרֶף עָצֵ֣ל לֹא ־יַחֲרֹ֑שׁ _וְ_†_שָׁאַ֖ל_†...
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...
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...
THE SLUGGARD WILL NOT PLOUGH BY REASON OF THE COLD,.... Or, "in the cold"; in the time of cold, as Aben Ezra; in the time of autumn, which is the time of ploughing, when it begins to be cold weather,...
_The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; [therefore] shall he beg in harvest, and [have] nothing._ Ver. 4. _The sluggard will not plough by reason of the cold._] So the spiritual sluggard e...
_The sluggard will not plough by reason of cold_ The cold of the ploughing season, being in the latter end of autumn, and toward winter, or early in the spring. He hates and avoids all laborious and d...
V. 4. THE SLUGGARD WILL NOT PLOW BY REASON OF THE COLD, the disagreeable weather furnishing him a welcome excuse to keep him from tilling the soil; THEREFORE SHALL HE BEG IN HARVEST AND HAVE NOTHING,...
COLD: Or, winter...
BY REASON OF THE COLD OF THE PLOUGHING SEASON, which is in autumn and towards winter. He hates and avoids all laborious and difficult work, although his own necessity and interest oblige him to it. AN...
Proverbs 20:4 lazy H6102 plow H2790 (H8799) winter H2779 beg H7592 (H8804) (H8675) H7592 ...
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...
_The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing._ THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE The present is intimately related to the future; and the future wi...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 20:1. STRONG DRINK. The Hebrew word _Shekhar_ includes every strong drink besides wine. Delitzsch translates it _mead_. PROVERBS 20:2. THE FEAR OF A KING, _i.e_., the dread...
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,...
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