Proverbs 20:10
What meaning of the proverbs 20:10 in the Bible?
What does Proverbs 20:10 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Divers weights,c and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD."
What does Proverbs 20:10 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Divers weights,c and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD."
Verse Proverbs 20:10. _DIVERS WEIGHTS AND DIVERS MEASURES_] _A peise and a_ _peise; _- Old MS. Bible: from the French _pois_, weight. Hebrew: "A stone and a stone; an ephah and an ephah." One the _sta...
See Proverbs 11:1 : Here perhaps, as a companion to Proverbs 20:9, with a wider application to all judging one man by rules which we do not apply to ourselves or to another....
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....
WEIGHTS... MEASURES. Hebrew "a stone and. stone, an ephah and an ephah". Ephah put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Species), App-6, for all kinds of weights and measures. There is no word for "di...
_Divers weights_ Lit. A STONE AND A STONE, AN EPHAH AND AN EPHAH; different weights or measures to buy and to sell with, or when there is risk of detection, and when fraud is safe. Comp. Deuteronomy 2...
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...
Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD. DIVERS WEIGHTS - Hebrew, 'a stone and a stone' - i:e., one weight in buying; a different one in selling. DIVE...
20:10 measures, (b-4) Lit. 'A stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah.'...
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. V2 An angr...
DIVERS WEIGHTS AND DIVERS MEASURES... — See above on Proverbs 11:1....
אֶ֣בֶן וָ֭ אֶבֶן אֵיפָ֣ה וְ אֵיפָ֑ה תֹּועֲבַ֥ת יְ֝הוָ֗ה גַּם ־שְׁנֵיהֶֽם׃...
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 descri...
Differing weights, [and] differing measures, both of (e) them [are] alike abomination to the LORD. (e) Read (Proverbs 16:11)....
_Measures. In commerce, (Calmet) as well as in judging. (St. Gregory in Ezechiel iv.)_...
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 follow...
DIVERS WEIGHTS, [AND] DIVERS MEASURES,.... Or, "a stone and a stone, and an ephah and an ephah" d. Stones being in old time used in weighing, and an "ephah" was a common measure among the Jews; and th...
Divers weights, [and] divers measures, both of them [are] alike abomination to the LORD. Ver. 10. _Divers weights, and divers measures, &c._] _See Trapp on "_ Pro 11:1 _"_ _See Trapp on "_ Pro 16:11...
V. 10. DIVERS WEIGHTS, stones as they were used for weights in balances, AND DIVERS MEASURES, the reference being not only to the vessels used in dry measure, but to every kind of measure, BOTH OF THE...
DIVERS WEIGHTS: _ Heb._ A stone and a stone MEASURES: _ Heb._ an ephah, and an ephah...
DIVERS WEIGHTS AND DIVERS MEASURES; one greater and true for public show, and one lesser and false for private use, when they had an opportunity of deceiving....
Proverbs 20:10 weights H68 H68 measures H374 H374 both H8147 alike H1571 abomination H8441 LORD H3068 Divers weights, and divers measures - Heb. a stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah, Deuteronom...
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...
_Divers weights and divers measures; both of them are alike abomination to the Lord._ CAVEAT VENDITOR I. Dishonesty in trade is various in its forms. “Divers weights and divers measures. .. and a fa...
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. Pr...
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 r...
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,...
Amos 8:4; Deuteronomy 25:13; Deuteronomy 25:13; Deuteronomy 7:25; Deuteronomy 7:26; Leviticus 19:35; Micah 6:10; Micah 6:11; Proverbs 11:1;...
Divers — One greater for shew and one lesser for use....