Proverbs 20:20

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

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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.
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 chara...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

curseth . revileth. lamp shall be put out. . Figure of speech Hypocatastasis (App-6), denoting that he shall die childless.
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 unde...
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 p...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1. Raging] RV 'a brawler.' Is deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man sneer, quarrel and reel about.
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...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER 17 A JUST BALANCE "A just balance and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are His work."- Proverbs 16:11 "A false balan...
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 unti...
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...
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...
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 p...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 obs...
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:...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Lamp — His name and memory shall utterly perish.

²⁰ Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lampf shall be put out in obscure darkness.

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 20:20

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Proverbs 20:20