Proverbs 20:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness:b but a faithful man who can find? ”

Proverbs 20:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Goodness - With the special sense of bounty, beneficence. Contrast promise and performance. People boast of their liberality, yet we look in vain for the fulfillment of actual obligations.
Proverbs 20:6 - 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 20:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

men. Hebrew. 'adam. App-14. every one. Hebrew. 'Ish 'ish. App-14. his own goodness. Illustrations: Absalom ( 2 Samuel 15:4 ); Jehu ( 2 Kings 10:16 ; 2 Kings 10:31 ); Scribes, &c. ( M...
Proverbs 20:6 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 801 TRUE PIETY IS RARE Proverbs 20:6 . Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness; but a faithful man who can find? IF we were to apply to every individual of mankind for his...
Proverbs 20:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find? Most men will proclaim - Many men merciful ben clepid: a feithful man forsoth, who schal finde? Old MS. Bible.
Proverbs 20:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness— "Most men are ready enough to claim to themselves a large share of virtue and piety; but where is the man of true and undissembled virtue and holi...
Proverbs 20:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find? Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness - his own beneficence to others, as the Pharisee did Mo...
Proverbs 20:6 - 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 20:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness. — Will be full of his benevolent intentions, “but a faithful man,” who carries out these promises, “who can find?”
Proverbs 20:6 - 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 20:6 - 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 20:6 - 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 20:6 - 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 20:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Most men will proclaim everyone his own goodness ,.... As the Pharisee did, in Luke 18:11 ; and as the Pharisees in common did; who did all their works to be seen of men, and made clean the outside...
Proverbs 20:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find? Ver. 6. Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness. ] As the kings of Egypt would needs be called Eυεργετ...
Proverbs 20:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness “Most men are ready enough to claim to themselves a large share of piety and virtue;” but a faithful man who can find? “Where is that man of true...
Proverbs 20:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

6 Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find? Note, 1. It is easy to find those that will pretend to be kind and liberal. Many a man will call...
Proverbs 20:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Most men are forward to profess religion, and speak of their own good deeds; but a faithful man, one who is indeed what he seemeth and professeth himself to be, who can find? there are but few such...
Proverbs 20:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 20:6 . Miller reads the first clause of this verse, “ Much of the mere man one calls his goodness ,” i.e. , “Much that is merely human.” He allows, however, that the us...
Proverbs 20:6 - 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 20:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness; but a faithful man, who can find? On goodness and fidelity I. What are we to understand by “goodness” and a “faithful man”?--Goodness often me...
Proverbs 20:6 - 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 20:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

v. 6. Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness, literally, "Many a man meets a man of his pleasantness," for an outward show of pleasantness, an amiable exterior, is not unusual; but a fa...
Proverbs 20:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 12:11 ; Ecclesiastes 7:28 ; Jeremiah 5:1 ; John 1:47 ; Luke 18:11 ; Luke 18:28 ; Luke 18:8 ; Luke 22:33 ; Micah 7:2 ; Matthew 6:2 ; Proverbs 25:14 ; Proverbs 27:2 ; Psalms...

Proverbs 20:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Proverbs 20:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 20:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Proverbs 20:6 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Proverbs 20:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Proverbs 20:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Proverbs 20:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 20:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 20:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Proverbs 20:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Proverbs 20:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Proverbs 20:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 20:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Proverbs 20:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Proverbs 20:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Proverbs 20:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 20:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Proverbs 20:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Proverbs 20:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Proverbs 20:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 20:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

Proverbs 20:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Proverbs 20:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Proverbs 20:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge