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Proverbs 20:1 open_in_new
A mocker — Wine immoderately drunk makes men mockers. Raging — Makes men full of rage.
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Proverbs 20:2 open_in_new
The fear — The terror which the wrath of a king causes.
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Proverbs 20:3 open_in_new
Meddling — Is always ready to begin strife, and obstinate in the continuance of it.
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Proverbs 20:5 open_in_new
Counsel — Designs of doing something of moment. Deep water — Is secret and hard to be discovered.
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Proverbs 20:8 open_in_new
His eyes — With his very looks, or by his diligent inspection into affairs.
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Proverbs 20:10 open_in_new
Divers — One greater for shew and one lesser for use.
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Proverbs 20:11 open_in_new
Is known — The future disposition of a man may be probably conjectured from his childish manners.
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Proverbs 20:13 open_in_new
Open — Shake off sloth and betake thyself to thy employment with diligence and vigour.
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Proverbs 20:15 open_in_new
The lips — But wise speeches are of far greater worth.
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Proverbs 20:16 open_in_new
Take — As a pledge, without which he ought not to be trusted. Of him — That is surety.
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Proverbs 20:18 open_in_new
Established — The way to bring our purposes to good effect is to manage them with serious consideration.
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Proverbs 20:20 open_in_new
Lamp — His name and memory shall utterly perish.
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Proverbs 20:24 open_in_new
His way — What the issue of his designs will be.
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Proverbs 20:25 open_in_new
A snare — It brings guilt upon him. After — After a man has made vows to enquire for ways to break them.
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Proverbs 20:26 open_in_new
The wheel — As the cart — wheel was anciently turned over the sheaves to beat the corn out of them. He punishes them as their offences deserve.
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Proverbs 20:27 open_in_new
The spirit — The reasonable soul. The candle — Is a clear and glorious light set up in man for his information and direction. Of the Lord — So called because it comes from God in a more immediate manner than the body, Ecclesiastes 12:7, and because it is in God's stead, to observe and judge all our actions. Searching — Discerning not only his outward actions, which are visible to others, but his most inward thoughts and affections. The belly is here put for the heart, as it is frequently.
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Proverbs 20:30 open_in_new
The blueness — Grievous wounds, which make men black and blue; or severe punishments. Cleanseth — Are the means to reclaim a wicked man, and to purge out his corruption. The belly — Of the heart. Grievous wounds or stripes cleanse not only the outward man by keeping it from evil actions, but even the inward man, by expelling or subduing vile affections: which is a great and blessed benefit of afflictions.