Proverbs 20
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Chapter 20
| 20:1 | A mocker - Wine immoderately drunk makes men mockers.Raging - Makes men full of rage. |
| 20:2 | The fear - The terror which the wrath of a king causes. |
| 20:3 | Meddling - Is always ready to begin strife, and obstinate in the continuance of it. |
| 20:5 | Counsel - Designs of doing something of moment.Deep water - Is secret and hard to be discovered. |
| 20:8 | His eyes - With his very looks, or by his diligent inspection into affairs. |
| 20:10 | Divers - One greater for shew and one lesser for use. |
| 20:11 | Is known - The future disposition of a man may be probably conjectured from his childish manners. |
| 20:13 | Open - Shake off sloth and betake thyself to thy employment with diligence and vigour. |
| 20:15 | The lips - But wise speeches are of far greater worth. |
| 20:16 | Take - As a pledge, without which he ought not to be trusted.Of him - That is surety. |
| 20:18 | Established - The way to bring our purposes to good effect is to manage them with serious consideration. |
| 20:20 | Lamp - His name and memory shall utterly perish. |
| 20:24 | His way - What the issue of his designs will be. |
| 20:25 | A snare - It brings guilt upon him. After - After a man has made vows to enquire for ways to break them. |
| 20:26 | 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. |
| 20:27 | 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. |
| 20:30 | 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. |