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Proverbs 20:1-30 open_in_new
1. Raging] RV 'a brawler.' Is deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man sneer, quarrel and reel about.
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Proverbs 20:2 open_in_new
Fear] the 'terror' which he causes. Soul] RV 'life.'
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Proverbs 20:4 open_in_new
Read, 'In the autumn.. therefore when he seeketh,' etc.: the first season begins about October, the second about April.
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Proverbs 20:5 open_in_new
A clever cross-questioner elicits one's plans.
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Proverbs 20:8 open_in_new
Scattereth away] RM 'winnoweth' (1 Kings 3:28).
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Proverbs 20:9 open_in_new
'What mortal when he saw,
Life's voyage done, his heavenly Friend,
Could ever yet dare tell Him fearlessly:
“I have kept uninfring'd my nature's law;
The inly-written chart Thou gavest me,
To guide me, I have steer'd by to the end”?' -
Proverbs 20:13 open_in_new
Open thine eyes] i.e. Wake up!
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Proverbs 20:15 open_in_new
Read, 'There is gold and abundance of corals and precious vessels—wise lips are all these.'
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Proverbs 20:16 open_in_new
'Strangers,' not a strange woman. He does not deserve to escape the consequences of his folly.
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Proverbs 20:19 open_in_new
A 'chatterbox,' not a 'flatterer,' is meant.
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Proverbs 20:25 open_in_new
RV 'It is a snare to a man rashly to say, It is holy,' etc. Reflect before vowing (Sir 15:1.; Matthew 15:8). There is a Greek story of one who found a gold mine, and thereupon vowed a gold ram to Juno: soon he substituted a silver one; then a small brass one; eventually she got nothing. 'The river past and God forgotten.'
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Proverbs 20:26 open_in_new
The wheel of the threshing-cart, crushing in its weight (Amos 1:3).
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Proverbs 20:27 open_in_new
Conscience is a searchlight, piercing the depths of the heart (1 Corinthians 2:11).
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Proverbs 20:28 open_in_new
It is the king's goodness and reliableness that are meant.
30. The blueness, etc.] RV 'Stripes that wound cleanse,' etc. (Psalms 119:67).