Proverbs 20                                                   Book of Proverbs    

Proverbs 20:1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

• Nobody listens to a drunk, some fools will
• Mocker = scoffer
• Raging = a brawler
• Is deceived = to go astray
• 1 Tim 5:23 Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
• God said, drink a little, not a gallon

2 The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.

• Sinneth = bear the blame, commit [sin], by fault, harm he hath done, offer cause, make, trespass.

3 It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.

• A fool is always starting trouble
• Meddling = breaking out
• If you can cease from strife = you will have peace

4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.

• Sluggard = lazy person
• Plow, plowing always done during the early rains
• Cold = Autumn
• Cold put for Autumn, and Autumn put for abundance of fruit possessed at that time

5 Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.

• Deep water is real still, a wise person knows where to find understanding
• A person with wisdom will know, where to find knowledge, in God's word

6 Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?

• If you tell someone you're going to do something, do it
• Keep your word, and you're going to be successful
• His word is better than a contract

7 The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.

• If you teach your children what's right, they're going to do what's right; as they become adults
• Blessed = happy
• Man walketh in his integrity = This is a person that has a job, and they will work.
• A lazy person works hard at not doing anything.

8 A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.

• A good king does what's right

9 Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

• Ecclesiastes 7:20 For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
• Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
• Can = is able to
• I am Pure, illustration: Job before he learned his lesson (Job 9:17)

10 Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord.

• He's has two sets of weights
• One to buy from and another to sell, He cheats people
• God doesn't like it, it's abomination to the Lord

11 Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.

• Pure = accurate
• Right = correct
• Your actions tells people what kind of person you are.
• The two sets of balances = one to buy and one to sell

12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them.

• If you're studying God's word and listening, God's going to give you wisdom.

13 Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

• This is talking about a lazy person.
• He's not talking about the disabled people
• Come to poverty = become dispossessed

14 It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.

• This is a person that tries to rip people off, then he goes and boasteth about how he cheated to get it.
• Naught = very bad
• If you cheated people, it's not long before you lose more than you cheated someone

15 There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

• This is someone with wisdom and knowledge

16 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

• Pledge of him, who has become security for a false teacher
• Strange woman = false teacher

17 Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

• Bread of deceit = bread gained by deceit
• Bread put by of part, for all kinds of food
• Deceit = lying
• Filled with gravel; or grit, implying utmost disappointment
• It's better to be honest

18 Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.

• It's wise to keep people safe, if it means to go to war

19 He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.

• Don't be around people that mock people
• Meddle = mingle, mix thyself up, not same word in verse 3
• Lips put by of cause for the flattery spoken by them
• They love to hear people that talk about someone

20 Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

• This is God's first promise to you, if you honour your father and mother, you will have a longer life
• Ex 20:12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
• Curseth = revileth
• Lamp shall be put out, denoting that he shall die childless

21 An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

• He rips off his own family, he tries to take their brother or sister inheritance

22 Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the Lord, and he shall save thee.

• God's going to take care of them

23 Divers weights are an abomination unto the Lord; and a false balance is not good.

• This false balance, mention twice in this chapter
• God's doesn't like it, when people try to cheat people.

24 Man's goings are of the Lord; how can a man then understand his own way?

• 1st Man = Geber = a strong man's, mighty
• 2nd Man = Adam = ruddy, common man

25 It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make inquiry.

• Don't mislead God's children, It's better to not say anything
• Devoureth = rashly promises

26 A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.

• A wise king will do what's right
• Wicked = lawless

27 The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly.

• If you follow God, the Holy Spirit is within you
• Spirit = breath
• Candle = lamp or light
• The belly, put by for the heart, and the heart for its thoughts

28 Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy.

• Mercy = loving kindness, grace or favour

29 The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.

• Gray head = with wisdom

30 The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.

• God demands punished, when someone breaks the law
• Cleanseth away = is cleansing = though = it be an evil

• Exactly 2520 years from the exile of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.

 

•  The first tribe to be conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh, in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.

 

• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant, (A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt - page 25