“ The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him. ”
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...
children . sons. blessed . happy. See note on Proverbs 3:13 .
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. The just (man) walketh in his integrity: his children (are) blessed after him. So far is it from being the case, as...
1. Raging] RV 'a brawler.' Is deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man sneer, quarrel and reel about.
The just man. — Comp. Proverbs 10:2 . His children are blessed after him. — Comp. 1 Kings 15:4 ; Jeremiah 33:20-21 .
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...
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...
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...
The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him. A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes. Who can say, I have made my heart clea...
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 Gos...
The just [man] walketh in his integrity: his children [are] blessed after him. Ver. 7. The just man walketh in his integrity. ] Walketh constantly; a not for a step or two only, when the good...
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...
7 The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him. It is here observed to the honour of a good man, 1. That he does well for himself. He has a certain r...
The just man walketh in his integrity; he proveth himself to be so not only by his profession, of which he spoke in the former verse, but by his sincere and unblamable conversation. His children ar...
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 20:1 . 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...
His children are blessed after him. The just man’s legacy 1. Anxiety about our family is natural, but we shall be wise if we turn it into care about our own character. If we walk before the Lor...
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...
v. 7. The just man walketh in his integrity, he who in his innocence conducts himself uprightly, righteously, his children are blessed after him, if they follow him in his righteousness, the Lord...
2 Corinthians 1:12 ; 3 John 1:3 ; 3 John 1:4 ; Acts 2:39 ; Genesis 17:7 ; Isaiah 33:15 ; Jeremiah 32:39 ; Luke 1:6 ; Proverbs 13:22 ; Proverbs 14:2 ; Proverbs 19:1 ; Psalms 112:2 ; Psalm...