Proverbs 20:16-21

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

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 parents, one or other of them, that have been the instruments of his being, and by whom he has been brought up and put out into the world; to slight them, despise them, and mock at them, is highly base and criminal, but to curse them is shocking! what can such expect but the curse of God upon them? his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 20:21

An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning ,.... Of a man's setting out in the world in trade and business; and which sometimes is got lawfully, and this must be excepted from this proverb; but generally what is got hastily and in a short time is got unlawfully, and so does not prosper. Some Jewish interpreters, as Gersom, understand it of an inheritance which comes to persons from their friends, without any labour or industry of theirs; and which they are not careful to keep,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 20:16

Take his garment that is surety for a stranger - I suppose the meaning to be, If a stranger or unknown person become surety in a case, greater caution should be used, and such security taken from this stranger as would prevent him from running away from his engagements. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 20:17

Bread of deceit is sweet - Property acquired by falsehood, speculation, etc., without labor, is pleasant to the unprincipled, slothful man; but there is a curse in it, and the issue will prove it. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 20:18

With good advice make war, - Perhaps there is not a precept in this whole book so little regarded as this. Most of the wars that are undertaken are wars of injustice, ambition, aggrandizement, and caprice, which can have had no previous good counsel. A minister, who is perhaps neither a good nor a great man, counsels his king to make war; the cabinet must be brought into it, and a sufficient number out of the states of the kingdom gained over to support it. By and by, what was begun through... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 20:20

Whoso curseth his father - Such persons were put to death under the law; see Exodus 21:17 ; Leviticus 20:9 , and here it is said, Their lamp shall be put out - they shall have no posterity; God shall cut them off both root and branch. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 20:21

An inheritance - gotten hastily - Gotten by speculation; by lucky hits; not in the fair progressive way of traffic, in which money has its natural increase. All such inheritances are short-lived; God's blessing is not in them, because they are not the produce of industry; and they lead to idleness, pride, fraud and knavery. A speculation in trade is a pubiic nuisance and curse. How many honest men have been ruined by such! read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 20:12-19

Religion, industry, prudence, and honesty I. GOD THE SOURCE OF ALL GOOD . 1 . Of all bodily good. The eye, the ear, with all their wondrous mechanism, with all their rich instrumentality of enjoyment, are from him. 2 . Of all spiritual faculty and endowment, the analogues of the former, and "every good and perfect gift" ( James 1:16 ). The new heart, the right mind, should, above all, be recognized as his gifts. 3 . In domestic and in public life. Good counsels of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 20:16

Take his garment that is surety for a stranger. The maxim is repeated in Proverbs 27:13 ; and warnings against suretyship are found in Proverbs 6:1 , etc.; Proverbs 11:15 ; Proverbs 17:18 ; Proverbs 22:26 , etc. The second portion of the clause is translated also, "For he is surety for another." If a man is so weak and foolish as to become security for any one, and is unable to make good his engaged payment, let him lose his garment which the creditor would seize; his imprudence... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 20:17

Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; Revised Version, bread of falsehood ; i.e. bread gained without labour, or by unrighteous means (comp. Proverbs 10:2 ). This is agreeable because it is easily won, and has the relish of forbidden fruit. "Wickedness is sweet in his mouth" ( Job 20:12 ). But afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel. He will find in his "bread" no nourishment, but rather discomfort and positive injury (comp. Job 20:14 ). The expression, "to eat gravel," is... read more

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