Proverbs 20:17
What meaning of the proverbs 20:17 in the Bible?
What does Proverbs 20:17 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Bread of deceitd is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel."
What does Proverbs 20:17 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Bread of deceitd is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel."
Verse Proverbs 20:17. _BREAD OF DECEIT_ IS _SWEET_] Property acquired by _falsehood, speculation_, c., without labour, is pleasant to the unprincipled, slothful man but there is a _curse_ in it, and t...
“To eat gravel” was a Hebrew Lamentations 3:16, and is an Arabic, phrase for getting into trouble. So “bread,” got by deceit, tastes sweet at first, but ends by leaving the hunger of the soul unsatisf...
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....
BREAD OF DECEIT. Bread gained by deceit. Genitive of Origin. See App-17 (2). BREAD. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Part), for all kinds of food. DECEIT. lying. Hebrew. _sheker._ See note o...
_Bread of deceit_ or _of falsehood_, R.V., i.e. bread (or whatever else that word represents) gotten by dishonest and deceitful methods. with _gravel_ Comp. Lamentations 3:16....
BREAD OF DECEIT— _Bread gained by fraud._ Houbigant....
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...
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel. BREAD OF DECEIT - bread obtained by deceit (; ). If the Qeri' reading, as in the English version, , be take...
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...
עָרֵ֣ב לָ֭ † אִישׁ לֶ֣חֶם שָׁ֑קֶר וְ֝ אַחַ֗ר יִמָּֽלֵא ־פִ֥יהוּ חָצָֽץ׃...
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...
“THE GLORY OF YOUNG MEN” Proverbs 20:16-30 What a wonderful thought is given in Proverbs 20:27! We stand like a row of unlighted candles until God's Spirit kindles us. Has the Divine Nature ever ben...
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...
_Lying. Deceit, and unlawful pleasures, chap. ix. 17. But God mingles disgust with them, and will punish the guilty, at least hereafter. Worldly enjoyments seem sweet, but they are full of gravel, and...
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...
_HARD FARE_ ‘Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall he filled with gravel.’ Proverbs 20:17 There are instances in which a very little practice in evil will make real wick...
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...
BREAD OF DECEIT [IS] SWEET TO A MAN,.... Which may be understood of sin in general, which is bread to the sinner, he eats it: it is called "the bread of wickedness", Proverbs 4:17; but it is but poor...
_Bread of deceit [is] sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel._ Ver. 17. _Bread of deceit is sweet to a man._] Sin's murdering morsels will deceive those that devour them...
_Bread of deceit_ Gain or pleasure procured by unrighteous courses; _is sweet to a man_ And the more sweet, because it is unlawfully obtained; such pleasure doth the carnal mind take in the success of...
V. 17. BREAD OF DECEIT IS SWEET TO A MAN, what he gains by such means may seem pleasant and enjoyable to him at first; BUT AFTERWARDS HIS MOUTH SHALL BE FILLED WITH GRAVEL, it will be most disagreeabl...
BREAD OF DECEIT: _ Heb._ bread of lying, or falsehood...
BREAD OF DECEIT; gain or pleasure procured by unrighteous courses. HIS MOUTH SHALL BE FILLED WITH GRAVEL; it shall be bitter and pernicious at last, like gritty bread, which offends the teeth and stom...
Proverbs 20:17 Bread H3899 deceit H8267 sweet H6156 man H376 afterward H310 mouth H6310 filled H4390 (H8735) gravel H2687 deceit - Heb. lying, or falsehood, Proverbs 4:17 is sweet - Proverbs 9:17-18;...
Proverbs 20:17 There are instances in which a very little practice in evil will make real wickedness seem to one harmless, to another necessary, to another almost satisfactory. This is what the wise...
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...
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 it suits them (v. Proverbs 20:14). Wisdom is...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 20:17. A MAN. The Hebrew word here used is the one which denotes _a superior man_. _MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 20:17_ BAD BREAD I. SOME GRATIFICATION IS TO BE OBTAINED F...
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 11:9; Genesis 3:6; Genesis 3:7; Hebrews 11:25; Job 20:12; Lamentations 3:15; Lamentations 3:16; Proverbs 4:17; Proverbs 9:17;...