Proverbs 20:7

The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him. THE JUST (MAN) WALKETH IN HIS INTEGRITY: HIS CHILDREN (ARE) BLESSED AFTER HIM. So far is it from being the case, as many suppose, that the just, by uprightness, stand in their own light, and expose themselves and their children to poverty....

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 inebriated persons scoff at what is holy, reject reproof, ridicule all that is serious. Septuagint, Ἀκόλαστον οἶνος, "Wine is an undisciplined thing;" Vulgate, _Luxuriosa res, vinum. _STRONG DRINK IS RAGING; a brawler, Revised Version. _Shekar, _σίκερα (Luke 1:15), is most frequently employed of any intoxicating drink not made from grapes, _e.g. _palm wine, mead, etc. The inordinate use of this renders men noisy and boisterous, no longer masters of themselves or restrained by the laws of morality or decency. Septu

THE JUST [MAN] WALKETH IN HIS INTEGRITY,.... This is the faithful and upright man, who is made righteous by the obedience of Christ; and walks by faith in him, and according to the truth of the Gospel; HIS CHILDREN [ARE] BLESSED AFTER HIM; with temporal blessings; and, walking in the same integrity as he does, they are blessed with spiritual blessings here, and eternal blessedness hereafter; see Psalms 37:26. It is an observation of an Heathen poet c, that good things befall the children of the godly, but not the children of the ungodly. c Theoerit. Idyll. 27. v. 32....

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. The first one is concerning wine and strong drink. As the use of wine among the people of Israel was legitimate the warning is against intemperance Deuteronomy 14:26). The Bible gives many illustrations of the truth of this proverb-warning. We may think of Noah, Lot, Nabal, Ben-hadad, Belshazzar and others. From all the good things we select the following. In Proverbs 20:3 is instruction which makes for peace. It is the fool who meddles and thus produces strife, but it is an honor for man to cease from strife. In...

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. PROVERBS 20:6 A. RV is strained and the Heb. is difficult. Read (_cf._ Syr. and Lat.) Many a man is called kind. Proverbs 20:8. winnoweth (_mg._) is more literal than RV, and conveys better the idea of personal scrutiny (_cf._ the ideal king in Psalms 72 and Isaiah 11). Proverbs 20:9. For the growi

CHILDREN. sons. BLESSED. happy. See note on Proverbs 3:13....

_walketh_ Rather, THAT WALKETH, R.V. ὄς ἀναστρέφεται ἄμωμος ἐν δικαιοσύνῃ, μακαρίους τοὺς παῖδας αὐτοῦ καταλείψει, LXX....

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 to anger sinneth against his own life. 3. It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife; But every fool will be quarrelling. 4. The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing. 5. Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; But a man of understanding will draw it out. 6. Most men will proclaim every one his own kindness; But a faithful man who can find? 7. A righteous man that walketh in his integrity, Blessed are his children after him. 8. A king that sitteth on the throne of judgment

20:7 children (a-10) Or 'The righteous who walketh ... blessed shall be ...'...

1. RAGING] RV 'a brawler.' IS deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man sneer, quarrel and reel about....