--- title: "Proverbs 20 - Study King James Bible with trapps complete commentary" description: "Read Proverbs 20 with trapps complete commentary commentary. 1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. 2 The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoke" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/proverbs/20" --- [ Read](/kjv/proverbs/20)[ Commentary](/study/proverbs/20)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/proverbs/20) Audio 1 Wine *is* a mocker, strong drink *is* raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. 2 The fear of a king *is* as the roaring of a lion: *whoso* provoketh him to anger sinneth *against* his own soul. 3 *It is* an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling. 4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; *therefore* shall he beg in harvest, and *have* nothing.* 5 Counsel in the heart of man *is like* deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out. 6 Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?* 7 The just *man* walketh in his integrity: his children *are* blessed after him. 8 A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes. 9 Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? 10 Divers weights, *and* divers measures, both of them *are* alike abomination to the LORD.** 11 Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work *be* pure, and whether *it be* right. 12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them. 13 Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, *and* thou shalt be satisfied with bread. 14 *It is* naught, *it is* naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth. 15 There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge *are* a precious jewel. 16 Take his garment that is surety *for* a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman. 17 Bread of deceit *is* sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.* 18 *Every* purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war. 19 He that goeth about *as* a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.* 20 Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.* 21 An inheritance *may be* gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed. 22 Say not thou, I will recompense evil; *but* wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee. 23 Divers weights *are* an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance *is* not good.* 24 Man’s goings *are* of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way? 25 *It is* a snare to the man *who* devoureth *that which is* holy, and after vows to make enquiry. 26 A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them. 27 The spirit of man *is* the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.* 28 Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy. 29 The glory of young men *is* their strength: and the beauty of old men *is* the gray head. 30 The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so *do* stripes the inward parts of the belly.* [Proverbs 19](/study/proverbs/19) [Proverbs 21](/study/proverbs/21) ## Commentary To verse 1 [Pro 20:1](/kjv/pro/20/1) Wine [is] a mocker, strong drink [is] raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. Ver. 1. **Wine is a mocker, &c.** ] For, first, it mocks *a* the drunkard, and makes a fool of him, promising him pleasure, but paying him with the stinging of an adder, and biting of a cockatrice, [Proverbs 23:32](/kjv/proverbs/23/32) . *See Trapp on "*[Pro 23:32](/kjv/-pro/23/32) *"* Wine is a comfortable creature,[Jdg 9:12](/kjv/-jdg/9/12) one of the chief lenitives *b* of human miseries, as Plato calls it; but "excess of wine"[1Pe 4:3](/kjv/-1pe/4/3) *c* is, as one well saith, *Blandus daemon, dulce venenum, suave Teccatum; quam qui in se habet, se non habet; quam qui facit, non facit peccatum, sed totus est peccatum.* That is, a fair spoken devil, a sweet poison, a sin which he that hath in him, hath not himself, and which he that runs into, runs not into a single sin, but is wholly turned into sin. Secondly, It renders a man a mocker, even one of those scorners, for whom judgments are prepared, as Solomon had said in the foregoing verse.[See Hos 7:5](/kjv/-see-hos/7/5) [Isaiah 28:1](/kjv/isaiah/28/1)[1Sa 25:36-38](/kjv/-1sa/25/36-38) Abigail would not tell Nabal of his danger till he had slept out his drunkenness, lest she should have met with a mock, if not with a knock. **** **Strong drink is raging.** ] All kinds of drink that will alienate the understanding of a man and make him drunk, as ale, beer, cider, perry, metheglin, &c. Of this Pliny *d* cries out, *Hei, mira vitiorum solertia inventum est quemadmodum aqua quoque inebriaret. Portentosum sane potionis genus! quasi non ad alium usum natura parens humane generi fruges dedisse videatur.* So witty is wickedness grown now, that there is a way invented to make a man drunk with water; a monstrous kind of drink surely! as if dame Nature had bestowed grain upon us to such a base abuse. *See Trapp on "*[Pro 23:29](/kjv/-pro/23/29) *"* St Paul very fitly yoketh together drunkards and railers.[1Co 6:9](/kjv/-1co/6/9) **** **And whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.** ] For when the wine is in the wit is out. They have a practice of drinking the *Outs* , as they call it - all the wit out of the head, all the money out of the purse, &c. - and thereby affect the title of roaring boys, by a woeful prolepsis (doubtless), here for hereafter. *a* *Decepit ebrietas Lotum quem Sodoma non decepit.* *b* μαλακτικον . *c* οινοφλυγιαι . *d* Lib. xiv., cap. ult. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com","name":"Real Bible Believers","description":"RBB","publisher":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/search?q={search_term_string}","query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/proverbs/20#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg","contentUrl":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg","width":672,"height":448,"caption":"Real Bible Believers"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/proverbs/20#webpage","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/proverbs/20","name":"Proverbs 20 - Study King James Bible with trapps complete commentary","isPartOf":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/proverbs/20#primaryimage"},"author":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"description":"Read Proverbs 20 with trapps complete commentary commentary. 1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. 2 The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoke","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/proverbs/20#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/proverbs/20"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/proverbs/20#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study","name":"Study Bible"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary","name":"trapps complete commentary"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/proverbs","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/proverbs","name":"Proverbs"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/proverbs/20","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/proverbs/20","name":"20"}}]},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#personlogo","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/android-chrome-512x512.png","contentUrl":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/android-chrome-512x512.png","width":512,"height":512},"logo":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#personlogo"},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/RBiblebeliever","https://www.facebook.com/RBibleBelievers"]}]} ```