Proverbs 20:4

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

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Plowing time in Palestine is in November and December, when the wind blows commonly from the North.
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

plow. Plowing always done during the early rains. cold . autumn. Put by Figure of speech Metalepsis, "cold" put for Autumn, and "Autumn" put fo...
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...
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 p...
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 o...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1. Raging] RV 'a brawler.' Is deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man sneer, quarrel and reel about.
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Read, 'In the autumn.. therefore when he seeketh,' etc.: the first season begins about October, the second about April.
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...
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 fai...
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

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 provok...
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 t...
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...
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...
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 sl...
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, althoug...
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...
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 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 i...
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. 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;...

⁴ The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold;a therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 20:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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