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

“ Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lampf shall be put out in obscure darkness. ”

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

  A connecting link between Leviticus 20:9 and Matthew 15:4 . The words, “his lamp shall be put out,” describe the failure of outward happiness.

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• Proverbs 20:20 - 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...

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• Proverbs 20:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  curseth . revileth. lamp shall be put out. . Figure of speech Hypocatastasis (App-6), denoting that he shall die childless.

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

  Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness. Whoso curseth his father - Such persons were put to death under the law; see Exodus 21:17 ; Leviticus 20:9 , a...

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

  Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness. Whoso curseth his father ... his lamp (the temporary prosperity which he may have) shall be put out in o...

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

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

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

  His lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness. — See above, on Proverbs 13:9 .

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• Proverbs 20:20 - 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...

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• Proverbs 20:20 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “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 e...

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• Proverbs 20:20 - 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...

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• Proverbs 20:20 - 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...

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

  Whoso curseth his father or his mother ,.... This is dreadful indeed! a person must be got to a great pitch of wickedness to do this; to curse his parents, one or other of them, that have been the i...

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• Proverbs 20:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness. Ver. 20. Whoso curseth his father, &c. ] See Trapp on " Exo 21:17 " See Trapp on " Mat 15:4 " Par...

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

        20 Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.       Here is, 1. An undutiful child become very wicked by degrees. He began with despising his fa...

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

  Or his mother, Heb. and his mother ; which is used for or , Exodus 12:5 Leviticus 6:3 , and elsewhere. His lamp; his comfort and happiness, his name and memory, which are oft compared in S...

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• Proverbs 20:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 20:20 AN UNNATURAL CHILD AND A NATURAL LAW I. An unnatural child . The ungrateful son or daughter of good parents is an unnatural being. If experience did not contr...

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• Proverbs 20:20 - 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...

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• Proverbs 20:20 - 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...

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

  v. 20. Whoso curseth his father or his mother, in a bold and blasphemous transgression of the Fourth Commandment, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness, the picture being that of hopeless...

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• Proverbs 20:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 27:16 ; Exodus 20:12 ; Exodus 21:17 ; Job 18:18 ; Job 18:5 ; Job 18:6 ; Jude 1:13 ; Leviticus 20:9 ; Mark 7:10-13 ; Matthew 15:4 ; Matthew 22:13 ; Matthew 25:8 ; Proverbs 13:...

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• Proverbs 20:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Lamp — His name and memory shall utterly perish.

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