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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Proverbs 20

Chapter 20

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

23:29-35 31:4 Genesis 9:21-23 19:31-36 1 Samuel 25:36-38 2 Samuel 11:13 2 Samuel 13:28 1 Kings 20:16-21 Isaiah 28:7 Hosea 4:11 7:5 Habakkuk 2:15,16 1 Corinthians 6:10 Galatians 5:21 Ephesians 5:18

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

fear

16:14,15 19:12 Ecclesiastes 10:4 Hosea 11:10 Amos 3:8

sinneth

8:36 1 Kings 2:23

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

an

14:29 16:32 17:14 19:11 25:8-10 Ephesians 1:6-8 4:32 5:1

but

14:17 18:6 21:24 2 Kings 14:9 James 3:14 4:1

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

sluggard

10:4 19:15,24 26:13-16

cold

or, winter. therefore.

6:10,11 19:15 24:34 Matthew 25:3-10,24-28 2 Peter 1:5-11

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

18:4 Psalms 64:6 1 Corinthians 2:11

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

proclaim

25:14 27:2 Matthew 6:2 Luke 18:8,11,28 22:33 2 Corinthians 12:11

goodness

or, bounty. but.

Psalms 12:1 Ecclesiastes 7:28 Jeremiah 5:1 Micah 7:2 Luke 18:8 John 1:47

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

just

14:2 19:1 Psalms 15:2 26:1,11 Isaiah 33:15 Luke 1:6 2 Corinthians 1:12 Titus 2:11,12 3 John 1:3,4

his children

13:22 Genesis 17:7 Psalms 37:26 112:2 Jeremiah 32:39 Acts 2:39

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

26 16:12 29:14 1 Samuel 23:3,4 2 Samuel 23:4 Psalms 72:4 92:9 99:4 101:6-8 Isaiah 32:1

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

1 Kings 8:46 2 Chronicles 6:36 Job 14:4 15:14 25:4 Psalms 51:5 Ecclesiastes 7:20 1 Corinthians 4:4 James 3:2 1 John 1:8-10

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

Divers weights, and divers measures

Heb. a stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah.

Deuteronomy 25:13

both

23 11:1 16:11 Leviticus 19:35 Deuteronomy 25:13-15 Amos 8:4-7 Micah 6:10,11

abomination

Deuteronomy 7:25,26 Revelation 21:8

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

21:8 22:15 Psalms 51:5 58:3 Matthew 7:16 Luke 1:15,66 2:46,47 6:43,44

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

Exodus 4:11 Psalms 94:9 119:18 Matthew 13:13-16 Acts 26:18 Ephesians 1:17,18

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

Love

6:9-11 10:4 12:11 13:4 19:15 24:30-34 Romans 12:11 2 Thessalonians 3:10

open

Jonah 1:6 Romans 13:11 1 Corinthians 15:34 Ephesians 5:14

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

It is naught

Ecclesiastes 1:10 Hosea 12:7,8 1 Thessalonians 4:6

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

but

3:15 8:11 10:20,21 15:7,23 16:16,21,24 25:12 Job 28:12-19 Ecclesiastes 12:9-11 Romans 10:14,15 Ephesians 4:29

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

Take his

11:15 22:26,27 27:13 Exodus 22:26,27

a strange

2:16 5:3 7:5,10 23:27

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

deceit

Heb. lying, or falsehood.

4:17

is sweet

9:17,18 Genesis 3:6,7 Job 20:12-20 Ecclesiastes 11:9 Hebrews 11:25

his

Lamentations 3:15,16

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

purpose

15:22 24:6

and

25:8 Judges 1:1,2 9:29 20:7,18,23,26-28 2 Samuel 2:26,27 2 Chronicles 25:17-23 Luke 14:31

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

that goeth

11:13 18:8 26:20-22 Leviticus 19:16

meddle

24:21

flattereth

or, enticeth.

16:29 Romans 16:18

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

curseth

30:11,17 Exodus 20:12 21:17 Leviticus 20:9 Deuteronomy 27:16 Matthew 15:4 Mark 7:10-13

his

13:9 24:20 Job 18:5,6,18 Matthew 22:13 25:8 Jude 1:13

lamp

or, candle.

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

gotten

23:4 28:20,22 1 Timothy 6:9

but

13:22 28:8 Job 27:16,17 Habakkuk 2:6 Zechariah 5:4 Malachi 2:2

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

I

17:13 24:29 Deuteronomy 32:35 Romans 12:17-19 1 Thessalonians 5:15 1 Peter 3:9

wait

2 Samuel 16:12 Psalms 27:14 37:34 Isaiah 40:31 Lamentations 3:25,26 1 Peter 2:23 4:19

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

weights

10 Ezekiel 45:10

a false balance

Heb. balances of deceit.

Hosea 12:7 Amos 8:5

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

Man's

Psalms 37:23 Jeremiah 10:23 Daniel 5:23 Acts 17:28

how

14:8 16:9 Psalms 25:4,12 Isaiah 10:6,7

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

a snare

18:7 Leviticus 5:15 22:10-15 27:30 Malachi 3:8-10

after

Leviticus 27:9,10,31 Numbers 30:2-16 Ecclesiastes 5:4-6 Matthew 5:33

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

wise

8 2 Samuel 4:9-12 Psalms 101:5-8

bringeth

2 Samuel 12:31 Isaiah 28:27,28

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

spirit

Genesis 2:7 Job 32:8 Romans 2:15 1 Corinthians 2:11 2 Corinthians 4:2-6 1 John 3:19-21

candle

or, lamp.

searching

30 Hebrews 4:12,13

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

Mercy

16:6 Psalms 61:7 101:1

his

16:12 29:14 Psalms 21:7 26:1 Isaiah 16:5

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

glory

Jeremiah 9:23,24 1 John 2:14

the beauty

16:31 Leviticus 19:32

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

cleanseth away evil

Heb. is a purging medicine against evil. stripes.

19:25 22:15 Isaiah 27:9 Hebrews 12:10