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Proverbs (Mishlei) is the manual of applied wisdom for covenant living. Wisdom in Proverbs is not abstract philosophy but ordered perception of reality — the recognition that creation has a moral grain, that fear of YHWH is the beginning of all true knowledge, and that human flourishing follows the design built into the fabric of things.
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- Primary Witness Text: 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 provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul. It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling. The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing. Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out. Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find? The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him. A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes. Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD. Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right. The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them. Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread. It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth. There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel. Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman. Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel. Every...
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Proverbs (Mishlei) is the manual of applied wisdom for covenant living. Wisdom in Proverbs is not abstract philosophy but ordered perception of reality — the recognition that creation has a moral grain, that fear of YHWH is the beginning of all true knowledge, and that human flourishing follows the design built into the fabric of things.
Proverbs 8's personified Wisdom — present at creation, delighting before God — is cited by early Church Fathers as a window into the eternal Son. The book's practical ethics (sexual integrity, speech, work, generosity) embody a worldview in which creation's design is the source of moral instruction.
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Proverbs 20:1
Hebrew
לֵץ הַיַּין הֹמֶה שֵׁכָר וְכָל־שֹׁגֶה בּוֹ לֹא יֶחְכָּֽם׃letz-hayayn-homeh-shekhar-vekhal-shogeh-vvo-lo'-yechekham
KJV: Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
AKJV: Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
ASV: Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler;
YLT: Wine is a scorner--strong drink is noisy, And any going astray in it is not wise.
Exposition: Proverbs 20:1 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 20:2
Hebrew
נַהַם כַּכְּפִיר אֵימַת מֶלֶךְ מִתְעַבְּרוֹ חוֹטֵא נַפְשֽׁוֹ׃naham-khakhefiyr-'eymat-melekhe-mite'avervo-chvote'-nafeshvo
KJV: The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.
AKJV: The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoever provokes him to anger sins against his own soul.
ASV: The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion:
YLT: The fear of a king is a growl as of a young lion, He who is causing him to be wroth is wronging his soul.
Commentary Witness (Generated)Proverbs 20:2Generated editorial synthesis
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Proverbs 20:2
Proverbs 20:2 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
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Exposition: Proverbs 20:2 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 20:3
Hebrew
כָּבוֹד לָאִישׁ שֶׁבֶת מֵרִיב וְכָל־אֱוִיל יִתְגַּלָּֽע׃khavvod-la'iysh-shevet-meriyv-vekhal-'eviyl-yitegala'
KJV: It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
AKJV: It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
ASV: It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife;
YLT: An honour to a man is cessation from strife, And every fool intermeddleth.
Commentary Witness (Generated)Proverbs 20:3Generated editorial synthesis
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Proverbs 20:3
Proverbs 20:3 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
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- Proverbs 20:3
Exposition: Proverbs 20:3 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 20:4
Hebrew
מֵחֹרֶף עָצֵל לֹא־יַחֲרֹשׁ ישאל וְשָׁאַל בַּקָּצִיר וָאָֽיִן׃mechoref-'atzel-lo'-yacharosh-ysh'l-vesha'al-vaqatziyr-va'ayin
KJV: The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
AKJV: The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
ASV: The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter;
YLT: Because of winter the slothful plougheth not, He asketh in harvest, and there is nothing.
Commentary WitnessProverbs 20:4Quoted commentary witness
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Proverbs 20:4
Verse 4 The sluggard will not plough - For other parts of this character, see the preceding chapter, Proverbs 19 (note). It is seldom that there is a season of very cold weather in Palestine; very cold days sometimes occur, with wind, rain, and sleet. They begin their ploughing in the latter end of September, and sow their early wheat by the middle of October. And this is often the case in England itself. The meaning of the proverb is: the slothful man, under the pretense of unfavorable weather, neglects cultivating his land till the proper time is elapsed.
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Exposition: Proverbs 20:4 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 20:5
Hebrew
מַיִם עֲמֻקִּים עֵצָה בְלֶב־אִישׁ וְאִישׁ תְּבוּנָה יִדְלֶֽנָּה׃mayim-'amuqiym-'etzah-velev-'iysh-ve'iysh-tevvnah-yidelenah
KJV: Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
AKJV: Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
ASV: Counsel in the heart of man islikedeep water;
YLT: Counsel in the heart of a man is deep water, And a man of understanding draweth it up.
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Proverbs 20:5
Verse 5 Counsel in the heart of man - Men of the deepest and most comprehensive minds are rarely apt, unsolicited, to join in any discourse, in which they might appear even to the greatest advantage; but a man of understanding will elicit this, by questions framed for the purpose, and thus pump up the salubrious waters from the deep and capacious well. The metaphor is fine and expressive.
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Exposition: Proverbs 20:5 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 20:6
Hebrew
רָב־אָדָם יִקְרָא אִישׁ חַסְדּוֹ וְאִישׁ אֱמוּנִים מִי יִמְצָֽא׃rav-'adam-yiqera'-'iysh-chasedvo-ve'iysh-'emvniym-miy-yimetza'
KJV: Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
AKJV: Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
ASV: Most men will proclaim every one his own kindness;
YLT: A multitude of men proclaim each his kindness, And a man of stedfastness who doth find?
Commentary Witness (Generated)Proverbs 20:6Generated editorial synthesis
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Proverbs 20:6
Proverbs 20:6 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
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Exposition: Proverbs 20:6 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 20:7
Hebrew
מִתְהַלֵּךְ בְּתֻמּוֹ צַדִּיק אַשְׁרֵי בָנָיו אַחֲרָֽיו׃mitehalekhe-vetumvo-tzadiyq-'asherey-vanayv-'acharayv
KJV: The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
AKJV: The just man walks in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
ASV: A righteous man that walketh in his integrity,
YLT: The righteous is walking habitually in his integrity, O the happiness of his sons after him!
Commentary Witness (Generated)Proverbs 20:7Generated editorial synthesis
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Proverbs 20:7
Proverbs 20:7 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
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Proverbs 20:7
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- Proverbs 20:7
Exposition: Proverbs 20:7 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 20:8
Hebrew
מֶלֶךְ יוֹשֵׁב עַל־כִּסֵּא־דִין מְזָרֶה בְעֵינָיו כָּל־רָֽע׃melekhe-yvoshev-'al-khise'-diyn-mezareh-ve'eynayv-khal-ra'
KJV: A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
AKJV: A king that sits in the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.
ASV: A king that sitteth on the throne of judgment
YLT: A king sitting on a throne of judgment, Is scattering with his eyes all evil,
Commentary WitnessProverbs 20:8Quoted commentary witness
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Proverbs 20:8
Verse 8 A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment - Kings should see to the administration of the laws, as well as of the state transactions, of their kingdom. In the British constitution there is a court for the king, called the King's Bench, where he should sit, and where he is always supposed to be sitting. The eyes - the presence, of the monarch in such a place, scatter evil - he sees into the case himself, and gives right judgment, for he can have no self-interest. Corrupt judges, and falsifying counsellors, cannot stand before him; and the villain is too deeply struck with the majesty and state of the monarch, to face out iniquity before him.
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- Bench
Exposition: Proverbs 20:8 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 20:9
Hebrew
מִֽי־יֹאמַר זִכִּיתִי לִבִּי טָהַרְתִּי מֵחַטָּאתִֽי׃miy-yo'mar-zikhiytiy-liviy-taharetiy-mechata'tiy
KJV: Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
AKJV: Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
ASV: Who can say, I have made my heart clean,
YLT: Who saith, `I have purified my heart, I have been cleansed from my sin?'
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Proverbs 20:9
Verse 9 Who can say, I have made any heart clean - No man. But thousands can testify that the blood of Jesus Christ has cleansed them from all unrighteousness. And he is pure from his sin, who is justified freely through the redemption that is in Jesus.
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- Jesus
Exposition: Proverbs 20:9 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 20:10
Hebrew
אֶבֶן וָאֶבֶן אֵיפָה וְאֵיפָה תּוֹעֲבַת יְהוָה גַּם־שְׁנֵיהֶֽם׃'even-va'even-'eyfah-ve'eyfah-tvo'avat-yehvah-gam-sheneyhem
KJV: Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
AKJV: Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
ASV: Diverse weights, and diverse measures,
YLT: A stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah, Even both of them are an abomination to Jehovah.
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Proverbs 20:10
Verse 10 Divers weights and divers measures - A peise and a peise; - Old MS. Bible: from the French pois, weight. Hebrew: "A stone and a stone; an ephah and an ephah." One the standard, the other below it; one to buy with, the other to sell by.
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Exposition: Proverbs 20:10 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 20:11
Hebrew
גַּם בְּמַעֲלָלָיו יִתְנַכֶּר־נָעַר אִם־זַךְ וְאִם־יָשָׁר פָּעֳלֽוֹ׃gam-vema'alalayv-yitenakher-na'ar-'im-zakhe-ve'im-yashar-fa'olvo
KJV: Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
AKJV: Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
ASV: Even a child maketh himself known by his doings,
YLT: Even by his actions a youth maketh himself known, Whether his work be pure or upright.
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Proverbs 20:11
Verse 11 Even a child is known by his doings - That is, in general terms, the effect shows the nature of the cause. "A childe is known by his conversation," says Coverdale. A child is easily detected when he has done evil; he immediately begins to excuse and vindicate himself, and profess his innocence, almost before accusation takes place. Some think the words should be understood, every child will dissemble; this amounts nearly to the meaning given above, But probably the principal this intended by the wise man is, that we may easily learn from the child what the man will be. In general, they give indications of those trades and callings for which they are adapted by nature. And, on the whole, we cannot go by a surer guide in preparing our children for future life, than by observing their early propensities. The future engineer is seen in the little handicraftsman of two years old. Many children are crossed in these early propensities to a particular calling, to their great prejudice, and the loss of their parents, as they seldom settle at, or succeed in, the business to which they are tied, and to which nature has given them no tendency. These infantine predilections to particular callings, we should consider as indications of Divine Providence, and its calling of them to that work for which they are peculiarly fitted.
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- Ovid
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- And
- Divine Providence
Exposition: Proverbs 20:11 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 20:12
Hebrew
אֹזֶן שֹׁמַעַת וְעַיִן רֹאָה יְהוָה עָשָׂה גַם־שְׁנֵיהֶֽם׃'ozen-shoma'at-ve'ayin-ro'ah-yehvah-'ashah-gam-sheneyhem
KJV: The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.
AKJV: The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD has made even both of them.
ASV: The hearing ear, and the seeing eye,
YLT: A hearing ear, and a seeing eye, Jehovah hath made even both of them.
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Verse 12 The hearing ear and the seeing eye - Every good we possess comes from God; and we should neither use our eyes, nor our ears, nor any thing we possess, but in strict subserviency to his will.
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Exposition: Proverbs 20:12 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 20:13
Hebrew
אַל־תֶּֽאֱהַב שֵׁנָה פֶּן־תִּוָּרֵשׁ פְּקַח עֵינֶיךָ שְֽׂבַֽע־לָֽחֶם׃'al-te'ehav-shenah-fen-tivaresh-feqach-'eyneykha-sheva'-lachem
KJV: Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
AKJV: Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
ASV: Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty;
YLT: Love not sleep, lest thou become poor, Open thine eyes--be satisfied with bread.
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Verse 13 Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty - Sleep, indescribable in its nature, is an indescribable blessing; but how often is it turned into a curse! It is like food; a certain measure of it restores and invigorates exhausted nature; more than that oppresses and destroys life. A lover of sleep is a paltry, insignificant character.
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- Sleep
Exposition: Proverbs 20:13 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 20:14
Hebrew
רַע רַע יֹאמַר הַקּוֹנֶה וְאֹזֵל לוֹ אָז יִתְהַלָּֽל׃ra'-ra'-yo'mar-haqvoneh-ve'ozel-lvo-'az-yitehalal
KJV: It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
AKJV: It is naught, it is naught, says the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
ASV: It is bad, it is bad, saith the buyer;
YLT: `Bad, bad,' saith the buyer, And going his way then he boasteth himself.
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Verse 14 It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer - How apt are men to decry the goods they wish to purchase, in order that they may get them at a cheaper rate; and, when they have made their bargain and carried it off, boast to others at how much less than its value they have obtained it! Are such honest men? Is such knavery actionable? Can such be punished only in another world? St. Augustine tells us a pleasant story on this subject: A certain mountebank published, in the full theater, that at the next entertainment he would show to every man present what was in his heart. The time came, and the concourse was immense; all waited, with deathlike silence, to hear what he would say to eaeh. He stood up, and in a single sentence redeemed his pledge: - Vili vultis Emere, et Caro Vendere. You all wish to Buy Cheap, and Sell Dear." He was applauded; for every one felt it to be a description of his own heart, and was satisfied that all others were similar. "In quo dicto levissimi scenici omnes tamen conscientias invenerunt suas.' - De Trinitate, lib. xiii., c. 3; Oper. vol. vii., col. 930.
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- Emere
- Caro Vendere
- Buy Cheap
- Sell Dear
- De Trinitate
- Oper
Exposition: Proverbs 20:14 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 20:15
Hebrew
יֵשׁ זָהָב וְרָב־פְּנִינִים וּכְלִי יְקָר שִׂפְתֵי־דָֽעַת׃yesh-zahav-verav-feniyniym-vkheliy-yeqar-shifetey-da'at
KJV: There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
AKJV: There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
ASV: There is gold, and abundance of rubies;
YLT: Substance, gold, and a multitude of rubies, Yea, a precious vessel, are lips of knowledge.
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Verse 15 There is gold - Gold is valuable, silver is valuable, and so are jewels; but the teachings of sound knowledge are more valuable than all.
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Exposition: Proverbs 20:15 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 20:16
Hebrew
לְֽקַח־בִּגְדוֹ כִּי־עָרַב זָר וּבְעַד נכרים נָכְרִיָּה חַבְלֵֽהוּ׃leqach-vigedvo-khiy-'arav-zar-vve'ad-nkhrym-nakheriyah-chavelehv
KJV: Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
AKJV: Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
ASV: Take his garment that is surety for a stranger;
YLT: Take his garment when a stranger hath been surety, And for strangers pledge it.
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Verse 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.
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Exposition: Proverbs 20:16 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 20:17
Hebrew
עָרֵב לָאִישׁ לֶחֶם שָׁקֶר וְאַחַר יִמָּֽלֵא־פִיהוּ חָצָֽץ׃'arev-la'iysh-lechem-shaqer-ve'achar-yimale'-fiyhv-chatzatz
KJV: Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
AKJV: Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
ASV: Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man;
YLT: Sweet to a man is the bread of falsehood, And afterwards is his mouth filled with gravel.
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Verse 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.
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Exposition: Proverbs 20:17 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 20:18
Hebrew
מַחֲשָׁבוֹת בְּעֵצָה תִכּוֹן וּבְתַחְבֻּלוֹת עֲשֵׂה מִלְחָמָֽה׃machashavvot-ve'etzah-tikhvon-vvetachevulvot-'asheh-milechamah
KJV: Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.
AKJV: Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.
ASV: Every purpose is established by counsel;
YLT: Purposes by counsel thou dost establish, And with plans make thou war.
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Verse 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 caprice must be maintained through necessity. Places must be created, and offices must be filled with needy dependents, whose interest it may be to protract the war, till they get enough to pay their debts, and secure independence for life. And for these most important ends the blood of the country is spilled, and the treasures of the people exhausted! I have met with a fact precisely of this kind under the reign of Louis XIV.
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Exposition: Proverbs 20:18 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 20:19
Hebrew
גּֽוֹלֶה־סּוֹד הוֹלֵךְ רָכִיל וּלְפֹתֶה שְׂפָתָיו לֹא תִתְעָרָֽב׃gvoleh-svod-hvolekhe-rakhiyl-vlefoteh-shefatayv-lo'-tite'arav
KJV: He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
AKJV: He that goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flatters with his lips.
ASV: He that goeth about as a tale-bearer revealeth secrets;
YLT: A revealer of secret counsels is the busybody, And for a deceiver with his lips make not thyself surety.
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Proverbs 20:19 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
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- Proverbs 20:19
Exposition: Proverbs 20:19 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 20:20
Hebrew
מְקַלֵּל אָבִיו וְאִמּוֹ יִֽדְעַךְ נֵרוֹ באישון בֶּאֱשׁוּן חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃meqalel-'aviyv-ve'imvo-yide'akhe-nervo-v'yshvn-ve'eshvn-choshekhe
KJV: Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
AKJV: Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
ASV: Whoso curseth his father or his mother,
YLT: Whoso is vilifying his father and his mother, Extinguished is his lamp in blackness of darkness.
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Verse 20 Whoso curseth his father - Such persons were put to death under the law; see Exo 21:17; Lev 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.
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- Lev 20:9
Exposition: Proverbs 20:20 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 20:21
Hebrew
נַחֲלָה מבחלת מְבֹהֶלֶת בָּרִאשֹׁנָה וְאַחֲרִיתָהּ לֹא תְבֹרָֽךְ׃nachalah-mvchlt-mevohelet-vari'shonah-ve'achariytah-lo'-tevorakhe
KJV: An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
AKJV: An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
ASV: An inheritancemay be gotten hastily at the beginning;
YLT: An inheritance gotten wrongly at first, Even its latter end is not blessed.
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Verse 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!
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Exposition: Proverbs 20:21 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 20:22
Hebrew
אַל־תֹּאמַר אֲשַׁלְּמָה־רָע קַוֵּה לַֽיהוָה וְיֹשַֽׁע לָֽךְ׃'al-to'mar-'ashalemah-ra'-qaveh-layhvah-veyosha'-lakhe
KJV: Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.
AKJV: Say not you, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save you.
ASV: Say not thou, I will recompense evil:
YLT: Do not say, `I recompense evil,' Wait for Jehovah, and He delivereth thee.
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Verse 22 I will recompense evil - Wait on the Lord; judgment is his, and his judgments are sure. In the mean time pray for the conversion of your enemy.
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- Ray
- Lord
Exposition: Proverbs 20:22 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 20:23
Hebrew
תּוֹעֲבַת יְהוָה אֶבֶן וָאָבֶן וּמֹאזְנֵי מִרְמָה לֹא־טֽוֹב׃tvo'avat-yehvah-'even-va'aven-vmo'zeney-miremah-lo'-tvov
KJV: Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
AKJV: Divers weights are an abomination to the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
ASV: Diverse weights are an abomination to Jehovah;
YLT: An abomination to Jehovah are a stone and a stone, And balances of deceit are not good.
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Proverbs 20:23
Proverbs 20:23 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
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- Proverbs 20:23
Exposition: Proverbs 20:23 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 20:24
Hebrew
מֵיהוָה מִצְעֲדֵי־גָבֶר וְאָדָם מַה־יָּבִין דַּרְכּֽוֹ׃meyhvah-mitze'adey-gaver-ve'adam-mah-yaviyn-darekhvo
KJV: Man’s goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
AKJV: Man’s goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
ASV: A man’s goings are of Jehovah;
YLT: From Jehovah are the steps of a man, And man--how understandeth he his way?
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Verse 24 Man's goings are of the Lord - He, by his providence, governs all the great concerns of the world. Man often traverses these operations; but he does it to his own damage. An old writer quaintly says: "They who will carve for themselves shall cut their fingers."
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- Ovid
- He
Exposition: Proverbs 20:24 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Man’s goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 20:25
Hebrew
מוֹקֵשׁ אָדָם יָלַע קֹדֶשׁ וְאַחַר נְדָרִים לְבַקֵּֽר׃mvoqesh-'adam-yala'-qodesh-ve'achar-nedariym-levaqer
KJV: It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.
AKJV: It is a snare to the man who devours that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.
ASV: It is a snare to a man rashly to say, It is holy,
YLT: A snare to a man is he hath swallowed a holy thing, And after vows to make inquiry.
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Proverbs 20:25
Verse 25 Who devoureth that which is holy - It is a sin to take that which belongs to God, his worship, or his work, and devote it to one's own use. And after vows to make inquiry - That is, if a man be inwardly making a rash vow, the fitness or unfitness, the necessity, expediency, and propriety of the thing should be first carefully considered. But how foolish to make the vow first, and afterwards to inquire whether it was right in the sight of God to do it! This equally condemns all rash and inconsiderate conduct. My old MS. Bible translates, Falling is of men often to vowen to seyntis, and after, the vouw is agen brawen. Is it possible that Wiclif could have translated this verse thus? as it strongly countenances vows to and invocations of saints.
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Exposition: Proverbs 20:25 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 20:26
Hebrew
מְזָרֶה רְשָׁעִים מֶלֶךְ חָכָם וַיָּשֶׁב עֲלֵיהֶם אוֹפָֽן׃mezareh-resha'iym-melekhe-chakham-vayashev-'aleyhem-'vofan
KJV: A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.
AKJV: A wise king scatters the wicked, and brings the wheel over them.
ASV: A wise king winnoweth the wicked,
YLT: A wise king is scattering the wicked, And turneth back on them the wheel.
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Proverbs 20:26
Verse 26 Bringeth the wheel over them - He threshes them in his anger, as the wheel does the grain on the threshing-floor. Every one knows that grain was separated from its husks, in Palestine, by the feet of the oxen trampling among the sheaves, or bringing a rough-shod wheel over them. Asiatic kings often threshed their people, to bring out their property; but this is not what is intended here.
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- Palestine
Exposition: Proverbs 20:26 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 20:27
Hebrew
נֵר יְהוָה נִשְׁמַת אָדָם חֹפֵשׂ כָּל־חַדְרֵי־בָֽטֶן׃ner-yehvah-nishemat-'adam-chofesh-khal-chaderey-vaten
KJV: The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
AKJV: The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
ASV: The spirit of man is the lamp of Jehovah,
YLT: The breath of man is a lamp of Jehovah, Searching all the inner parts of the heart.
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Proverbs 20:27
Verse 27 The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord - God has given to every man a mind, which he so enlightens by his own Spirit, that the man knows how to distinguish good from evil; and conscience, which springs from this, searches the inmost recesses of the soul.
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Exposition: Proverbs 20:27 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 20:28
Hebrew
חֶסֶד וֶאֱמֶת יִצְּרוּ־מֶלֶךְ וְסָעַד בַּחֶסֶד כִּסְאֽוֹ׃chesed-ve'emet-yitzerv-melekhe-vesa'ad-vachesed-khise'vo
KJV: Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy.
AKJV: Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upheld by mercy.
ASV: Kindness and truth preserve the king;
YLT: Kindness and truth keep a king, And he hath supported by kindness his throne.
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Proverbs 20:28
Verse 28 Mercy and truth preserve the king - These are the brightest jewels in the royal crown; and those kings who are most governed by them have the stablest government.
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Exposition: Proverbs 20:28 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 20:29
Hebrew
תִּפְאֶרֶת בַּחוּרִים כֹּחָם וַהֲדַר זְקֵנִים שֵׂיבָֽה׃tife'eret-vachvriym-khocham-vahadar-zeqeniym-sheyvah
KJV: The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.
AKJV: The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the grey head.
ASV: The glory of young men is their strength;
YLT: The beauty of young men is their strength, And the honour of old men is grey hairs.
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Proverbs 20:29
Verse 29 The glory of young men is their strength - Scarcely any young man affects to be wise, learned, etc.; but all delight to show their strength and to be reputed strong. Agility, one evidence of strength, their particularly affect; and hence their various trials of strength and fleetness in public exercises. And the beauty of old men is the gray head - They no longer affect strength and agility, but they affect wisdom, experience, prudent counsels, etc., and are fond of being reputed wise, and of having respect paid to their understanding and experience.
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Named authorities or texts detected in the witness
- Ray
- Agility
Exposition: Proverbs 20:29 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Proverbs 20:30
Hebrew
חַבֻּרוֹת פֶּצַע תמריק תַּמְרוּק בְּרָע וּמַכּוֹת חַדְרֵי־בָֽטֶן׃chavurvot-fetza'-tmryq-tamervq-vera'-vmakhvot-chaderey-vaten
KJV: The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.
AKJV: The blueness of a wound cleans away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.
ASV: Stripes that wound cleanse away evil;
YLT: The bandages of a wound thou removest with the evil, Also the plagues of the inner parts of the heart!
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Proverbs 20:30
Verse 30 The blueness of a wound - חברות chabburoth, from חבר chabar, to unite, to join together. Does it not refer to the cicatrice of a wound when, in its healing, the two lips are brought topether? By this union the wound is healed; and by the previous discharge the lace-rated ends of fibres and blood-vessels are purged away. So stripes, though they hurt for the time, become the means of correcting and discharging the moral evil of the inmost soul, the vice of the heart, the easily-besetting sin. In this chapter, verses fourteen to nineteen, inclusive, are wanting in the Septuagint and Arabic; and the tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth, come in after the twenty-second. It is difficult to account for these variations, unless they were occasioned by the change of leaves in MSS.
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Proverbs 20:30
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Named authorities or texts detected in the witness
- Septuagint
- Arabic
Exposition: Proverbs 20:30 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
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- Proverbs 20:1
- Proverbs 20:2
- Proverbs 20:3
- Proverbs 20:4
- Proverbs 20:5
- Proverbs 20:6
- Proverbs 20:7
- Proverbs 20:8
- Proverbs 20:9
- Proverbs 20:10
- Proverbs 20:11
- Proverbs 20:12
- Proverbs 20:13
- Proverbs 20:14
- Proverbs 20:15
- Proverbs 20:16
- Proverbs 20:17
- Proverbs 20:18
- Proverbs 20:19
- Lev 20:9
- Proverbs 20:20
- Proverbs 20:21
- Proverbs 20:22
- Proverbs 20:23
- Proverbs 20:24
- Proverbs 20:25
- Proverbs 20:26
- Proverbs 20:27
- Proverbs 20:28
- Proverbs 20:29
- Proverbs 20:30
Named authorities or texts surfaced in commentary
- Palestine
- September
- October
- Bench
- Jesus
- Bible
- Ovid
- Coverdale
- And
- Divine Providence
- Sleep
- St
- Emere
- Caro Vendere
- Buy Cheap
- Sell Dear
- De Trinitate
- Oper
- Ray
- Lord
- He
- Agility
- Septuagint
- Arabic
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Proverbs 20:1
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