Proverbs 20:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth. ”

Proverbs 20:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Naught - Bad, worthless 2 Kings 2:19 .
Proverbs 20:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 thou...
Proverbs 20:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

naught... naught . very bad. Figure of speech Epizeuxis (App-6), for emphasis.
Proverbs 20:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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, saith the buyer - How apt are men to decry the goods they wish to purchase,...
Proverbs 20:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
Proverbs 20:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1. Raging] RV 'a brawler.' Is deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man sneer, quarrel and reel about.
Proverbs 20:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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 cheati...
Proverbs 20:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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 glimps...
Proverbs 20:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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 moc...
Proverbs 20:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 d...
Proverbs 20:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 i...
Proverbs 20:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

[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 che...
Proverbs 20:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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, an...
Proverbs 20:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 H...
Proverbs 20:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

14 It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth. See here 1. What arts men use to get a good bargain and to buy cheap. They not only...
Proverbs 20:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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....
Proverbs 20:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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-w...
Proverbs 20:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 19:1-2 . Cyrus, afte...
Proverbs 20:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

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...
Proverbs 20:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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 infl...
Proverbs 20:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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 bette...
Proverbs 20:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Thessalonians 4:6 ; Ecclesiastes 1:10 ; Hosea 12:7 ; Hosea 12:8

Proverbs 20:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Proverbs 20:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 20:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Proverbs 20:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Proverbs 20:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 20:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 20:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Proverbs 20:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Proverbs 20:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Proverbs 20:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 20:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Proverbs 20:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Proverbs 20:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Proverbs 20:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 20:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Proverbs 20:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Proverbs 20:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Proverbs 20:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 20:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

Proverbs 20:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Proverbs 20:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Proverbs 20:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge