It is naught, saith the buyer. — He cries down the goods he wants to purchase.
Then he boasteth. — How he has outdone the seller, and got the goods below their value. For other notices of cheating in trade see above on Proverbs 11:1.
Verse Proverbs 20:14. IT IS _NAUGHT_, IT IS _NAUGHT, SAITH THE BUYER_] How apt are men to decry the goods they wish to purchase, in order that they may get them at a _cheaper rate_; and, when they ha...
NAUGHT - Bad, worthless 2 Kings 2:19....
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...
NAUGHT... NAUGHT. very bad. Figure of speech _Epizeuxis_ (App-6), for emphasis....
_naught_ i.e. an inferior article. Comp. 2 Kings 2:19. By decrying it he gets it cheap, and then goes his way and boasts of his cleverness. Mr Bridges, in his _Commentary on Proverbs_, quotes here fro...
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...
It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth. IT IS NAUGHT, IT IS NAUGHT (THE WARE ON SALE IS BAD IN QUALITY AND QUANTITY), SAITH THE BUYER. The repet...
1. RAGING] RV 'a brawler.' IS deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man sneer, quarrel and reel about....
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....
This buyer bargains for a cheap price. Perhaps he even cheats the seller. The buyer says that the seller is selling something bad. But later, he tells the opposite to his friends. He has bought someth...
רַ֣ע רַ֭ע יֹאמַ֣ר הַ קֹּונֶ֑ה וְ אֹזֵ֥ל
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...
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...
_Buyer. This is the common practice; yet it is not without exceptions. St. Augustine (Trin. xiii. 3.) observes, that the mountebank having promised to tell what every person had in his heart, many cam...
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...
[IT IS] NAUGHT, [IT IS] NAUGHT, SAITH THE BUYER,.... When he comes to the shop of the seller, or to market to buy goods, he undervalues them, says they are not so good as they should be, nor so cheap...
Proverbs 20:14 [It is] naught, [it is] naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth. Ver. 14. _It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer._] Or, Saith the possessor, and so...
_It is naught, it is naught._ The commodity is but of little worth; _saith the buyer_ Namely, to the seller; he discommends it, that he may bring down the price of it; _but when he is gone his way_ Ha...
V. 14. IT IS NAUGHT, IT IS NAUGHT, SAITH THE BUYER, he insists that the goods offered him are bad, worthless, in order to beat down the price; BUT WHEN HE IS GONE HIS WAY, having gotten the better of...
IT IS NAUGHT; the commodity is but of little worth. Saith the buyer, to wit, to the seller; he discommends it, that he may bring down the price of it. GONE HIS WAY, with the commodity purchased. HE BO...
Proverbs 20:14 nothing H7451 H7451 cries H559 (H8799) buyer H7069 (H8802) gone H235 (H8801
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...
_It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth._ FRAUD EXPOSED AND CONDEMNED The man who would be really religious, must be influenced by religion in ever...
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,...
1 Thessalonians 4:6; Ecclesiastes 1:10; Hosea 12:7; Hosea 12:8...