Proverbs 20:10-23 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 20:20

Here is, 1. An undutiful child become very wicked by degrees. He began with despising his father and mother, slighting their instructions, disobeying their commands, and raging at their rebukes, but at length he arrives at such a pitch of impudence and impiety as to curse them, to give them scurrilous and opprobrious language, and to wish mischief to those that were instruments of his being and have taken so much care and pains about him, and this in defiance of God and his law, which had made... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 20:21

Note, 1. It is possible that an estate may be suddenly raised. There are those that will be rich, by right or wrong, who make no conscience of what they say or do if they can but get money by it, who, when it is in their power, will cheat their own father, and who sordidly spare and hoard up what they get, grudging themselves and their families food convenient and thinking all lost but what they buy land with or put out to interest. By such ways as these a man may grow rich, may grow very... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 20:22

Those that live in this world must expect to have injuries done them, affronts given them, and trouble wrongfully created them, for we dwell among briers. Now here we are told what to do when we have wrong done us. 1. We must not avenge ourselves, no, nor so much as think of revenge, or design it: ?Say not thou, no, not in thy heart, I will recompense evil for evil. Do not please thyself with the thought that some time or other thou shalt have an opportunity of being quits with him. Do not... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 20:23

This is to the same purport with what was said Prov. 20:20. 1. It is here repeated, because it is a sin that God doubly hates (as lying, which is of the same nature with this sin, is mentioned twice among the seven things that God hates, Prov. 6:17, 19), and because it was probably a sin very much practised at that time in Israel, and therefore made light of as if there were no harm in it, under pretence that, being commonly used, there was no trading without it. 2. It is here added, A false... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 20:10

Divers weights, and divers measures ,.... Or, "a stone and a stone, and an ephah and an ephah" F4 So Montanus, Schulteus. . Stones being in old time used in weighing, and an "ephah" was a common measure among the Jews; and these ought not to be different; one stone or weight for buying, and another for selling; and one measure to buy goods in with, and another to sell out with; the one too heavy, the other too light; the one too large, and the other too scanty; whereby justice is not... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 20:11

Even a child is known by his doings ,.... As well as a man; "ye shall know them by their fruits", Matthew 7:16 ; professors and profane. So a child soon discovers its genius by its actions; it soon shows its inclination and disposition; and some shrewd guesses may be made how it will turn out, a wise man or a fool, a virtuous or a vicious man; though this does not always hold good, yet something may be observed, which may be a direction to parents in the education of their children, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 20:12

The hearing ear, and the seeing eye ,.... There may be an ear that hears not, and an eye that seeth not, and which men may make; the painter can paint an ear and an eye, and a carver can carve both; but they are ears that hear not, and eyes that see not, Psalm 115:5 ; but such as can hear and see are of the Lord's own make; the Lord hath made even both of them ; they are the effects of his wisdom, power, and goodness; see Exodus 4:11 ; they are both senses of excellent use and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 20:13

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty ,.... Sleep is a very great natural blessing; it is a gift of God, what nature requires, and is desirable; it is to be loved, though not immoderately; it is sweet to a man, and what he should be thankful for; yet should not indulge himself in to the neglect of the proper business of life; nor to be used but at the proper time for it; for the eye is made for sight, and not for sleep only, as Aben Ezra observes, connecting the words with the preceding;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 20:14

It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer ,.... When he comes to the shop of the seller, or to market to buy goods, he undervalues them, says they are not so good as they should be, nor so cheap as he can buy them at; but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth ; after he has brought the seller to as low a price as he can, and has bought the goods, and gone away with them, and got home among his friends; then he boasts what a bargain he has bought, how good the commodity is, how... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 20:15

There is gold, and a multitude of rubies ,.... A man may have a large quantity of either, or of both of thorn, as some men have; for there is much of them in the world, not only in mines and quarries, but in the houses and cabinets of men; but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel ; knowledge even of things natural, and a gift of elocution to express it by, are a rare jewel, and much more precious than gold and rubies, than a multitude of them; these are not to be mentioned with... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 20:20

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 20:21

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 20:22

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 20:23

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 20:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 20:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 20:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 20:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 20:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 20:15

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