Proverbs 20

1:2 instruction; (i-5) ‘Wisdom’ here and in ver. 7 is chokmah . ‘Instruction’ means also, ‘correction,’ ‘warning,’ ‘discipline,’ Job 36:10 .

Proverbs 20:3

20:3 cease (k-9) Or ‘keep away.’

Proverbs 20:6

20:6 kindness; (l-9) Chesed , or ‘benevolence.’ see ch. 19.22.

Proverbs 20:7

20:7 children (a-10) Or ‘The righteous who walketh … blessed shall be …’

Proverbs 20:10

20:10 measures, (b-4) Lit. ‘A stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah.’

Proverbs 20:15

20:15 Jewel. (c-17) Or ‘vessel.’

Proverbs 20:16

20:16 strangers. (d-16) Some read ’the strange woman,’ conforming this passage to ch. 27.13.

Proverbs 20:20

20:20 blackest (e-16) Lit. ’the eyeball of.’ see ch. 7.9.

Proverbs 20:21

20:21 hastily (f-4) Others read ‘wrongly acquired.’

Proverbs 20:23

20:23 weights (g-2) See ver. 10.

Proverbs 20:24

20:24 man (h-5) Geber . see Job 3:3 .

Proverbs 20:25

20:25 hallowed, (i-13) Or ’to appropriate to himself a holy thing.’

Proverbs 20:27

20:27 belly. (k-15) As ch. 18.8.

Proverbs 20:28

20:28 Mercy (l-1) mercy. (l-13) Or ‘kindness,’ ‘bounty;’ chesed , and so ch. 21.21.

Proverbs 20:30

20:30 belly. (k-14) As ch. 18.8.