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OPEN THINE EYES - Be vigilant and active. That is the secret of
prosperity....
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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....
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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...
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COME TO POVERTY. become dispossessed. Hebrew. _yarash._ See note on
Proverbs 6:11....
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Comp. Proverbs 6:9-11; Proverbs 19:15....
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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...
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Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou
shalt be satisfied with bread. Love not sleep, lest thou come to
poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread....
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1. RAGING] RV 'a brawler.' IS deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man
sneer, quarrel and reel about....
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OPEN THINE EYES] i.e. Wake up!...
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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....
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This is similar to Proverbs 19:15. Sleep is good, but it is not good
to be lazy. The lazy man becomes poor, because he refuses to work. The
worker earns his wages, so that he has plenty of food....
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OPEN THINE EYES. — Be up and stirring....
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אַל ־תֶּֽאֱהַ֣ב שֵׁ֭נָה פֶּן
־תִּוָּרֵ֑שׁ פְּקַ֖ח...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_Sleep. Septuagint, "back-biting, that thou mayst not be taken off."
(Haydock)_...
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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...
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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...
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LOVE NOT SLEEP, LEST THOU COME TO POVERTY,.... Sleep is a very great
natural blessing; it is a gift of God, what nature requires, and is
desirable; it is to be loved, though not immoderately; it is sw...
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Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, [and] thou
shalt be satisfied with bread.
Ver. 13. _Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty._] In sleep there
is no use either of sight o...
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_Love not sleep_ That is, immoderate sleep, nor sloth, or idleness.
Take sleep because necessity requires it, not from any love to it;
_lest thou come to poverty_ Lest thou reduce thyself to beggary....
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V. 13. LOVE NOT SLEEP, that associated with slothfulness, LEST THOU
COME TO POVERTY, that being the result of sloth; OPEN THINE EYES, with
the proper energy, industry, and vigor, AND THOU SHALT BE SAT...
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LOVE NOT SLEEP, i.e. immoderate sleep, or sloth, or idleness. Take
sleep because necessity requires it, not from any love to it. OPEN
THINE EYES; awake out of sleep, shake off sloth, and betake thysel...
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Proverbs 20:13 love H157 (H8799) sleep H8142 poverty H3423 (H8735)
Open H6491 (H8798) eyes H5869 satisfied...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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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1 Corinthians 15:34; 2 Thessalonians 3:10; Ephesians 5:14; Jonah 1:6;...
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Open — Shake off sloth and betake thyself to thy employment with
diligence and vigour....