Proverbs 20:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold;a therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing. ”

Proverbs 20:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Plowing time in Palestine is in November and December, when the wind blows commonly from the North.
Proverbs 20:4 - 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 20:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

plow. Plowing always done during the early rains. cold . autumn. Put by Figure of speech Metalepsis, "cold" put for Autumn, and "Autumn" put for abundance of fruits possessed at that time. Th...
Proverbs 20:4 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 800 THE CONSEQUENCE OF SLOTH Proverbs 20:4 . The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold: therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing . ARGUMENTS from analogy, when the...
Proverbs 20:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing. The sluggard will not plough - For other parts of this character, see the preceding chapter,...
Proverbs 20:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing. The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold - Hebrew, the winter. Disinclination is...
Proverbs 20:4 - 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 20:4 - 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 20:4 - 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 20:4 - 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 20:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul. It...
Proverbs 20:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The sluggard will not plough by reason of the cold ,.... Or, "in the cold"; in the time of cold, as Aben Ezra; in the time of autumn, which is the time of ploughing, when it begins to be cold weathe...
Proverbs 20:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; [therefore] shall he beg in harvest, and [have] nothing. Ver. 4. The sluggard will not plough by reason of the cold. ] So the spiritual sluggard...
Proverbs 20:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The sluggard will not plough by reason of cold The cold of the ploughing season, being in the latter end of autumn, and toward winter, or early in the spring. He hates and avoids all laborious and...
Proverbs 20:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing. See here the evil of slothfulness and the love of ease. 1. It keeps men f...
Proverbs 20:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

By reason of the cold of the ploughing season, which is in autumn and towards winter. He hates and avoids all laborious and difficult work, although his own necessity and interest oblige him to it....
Proverbs 20:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 20:1 . Strong drink . The Hebrew word Shekhar includes every strong drink besides wine. Delitzsch translates it mead . Proverbs 20:2 . The fear of a king, i.e .,...
Proverbs 20:4 - 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 20:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing. The present and the future The present is intimately related to the future; and the future...
Proverbs 20:4 - 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 20:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

v. 4. The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold, the disagreeable weather furnishing him a welcome excuse to keep him from tilling the soil; therefore shall he beg in harvest and have nothi...
Proverbs 20:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Peter 1:5-11 ; Matthew 25:24-28 ; Matthew 25:3-10 ; Proverbs 10:4 ; Proverbs 19:15 ; Proverbs 19:24 ; Proverbs 24:34 ; Proverbs 26:13-16 ; Proverbs 6:10 ; Proverbs 6:11

Proverbs 20:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Proverbs 20:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 20:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Proverbs 20:4 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Proverbs 20:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Proverbs 20:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 20:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 20:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Proverbs 20:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Proverbs 20:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 20:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Proverbs 20:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Proverbs 20:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Proverbs 20:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 20:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Proverbs 20:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Proverbs 20:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Proverbs 20:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 20:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

Proverbs 20:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Proverbs 20:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Proverbs 20:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge