
Text -- Proverbs 21:20 (NET)




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Wesley -> Pro 21:20
Wesley: Pro 21:20 - -- Wise men lay up desirable treasures for their own use, and for their families. Oil is particularly mentioned, because that was a considerable part of ...
Wise men lay up desirable treasures for their own use, and for their families. Oil is particularly mentioned, because that was a considerable part of their wealth and treasures in those countries.
The wise, by diligence and care, lay up and increase wealth, while fools
TSK -> Pro 21:20
TSK: Pro 21:20 - -- treasure : Pro 10:22, Pro 15:6; Psa 112:3; Ecc 5:19, Ecc 7:11, Ecc 10:19; Mat 6:19, Mat 6:20; Luk 6:45
oil : Psa 23:5; Jer 41:8; Mat 25:3, Mat 25:4
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Barnes -> Pro 21:20
Barnes: Pro 21:20 - -- Spendeth it up - literally, swalloweth it. The wise man keeps a store in reserve. He gains uprightly, spends moderately, never exhausts himself...
Spendeth it up - literally, swalloweth it. The wise man keeps a store in reserve. He gains uprightly, spends moderately, never exhausts himself. But the proverb may have also a higher application. The wise man stores up all "treasure to be desired"of wisdom, all "oil"of divine influence, which strengthens and refreshes, and so is ready at all times for the work to which the Master calls him. Compare Mat 25:1-13.
Poole -> Pro 21:20
Poole: Pro 21:20 - -- Wise men lay up all necessary and desirable treasures for their own use, and for their children and families.
Oil is particularly mentioned, partl...
Wise men lay up all necessary and desirable treasures for their own use, and for their children and families.
Oil is particularly mentioned, partly because that was a considerable part of their wealth and treasures in those countries, of which see Deu 7:13 28:40,51 Jud 9:9 Mic 5:15 , &c.; and partly to show that his providence reached not only to necessaries, but even to matters of just and lawful delight.
Haydock -> Pro 21:20
Haydock: Pro 21:20 - -- Treasure of provisions. Temporal blessings were promised as a figure of more lasting ones, which are set before Christians.
Treasure of provisions. Temporal blessings were promised as a figure of more lasting ones, which are set before Christians.
Gill -> Pro 21:20
Gill: Pro 21:20 - -- There is a treasure to be desired,.... Gold, silver, jewels, and precious stones; all sorts food, as Aben Ezra explains it, and rich and costly, raim...
There is a treasure to be desired,.... Gold, silver, jewels, and precious stones; all sorts food, as Aben Ezra explains it, and rich and costly, raiment; all which may be lawfully desired and sought after, and, when obtained, laid up for future use; which may be spared for their own service and that of posterity: but there are riches of grace, a pearl of great price and treasure in heaven, more desirable than these, Mat 6:19;
and oil in the dwelling of the wise; which is particularly mentioned, because a principal blessing of the land of Canaan; much used for food, and was for delight and refreshment: and something of this was in the house of every wise, provident, and industrious man, for the use of him and his family; even though he lived but in a "cottage", as the word f signifies this is an emblem of the grace of God, which is sometimes compared to oil; which a wise man is chiefly concerned, that it may be in his heart, in his house, and in his family;
but a foolish man spendeth it up; the oil; he swallows it up at once, as soon as he has got it, and wastes and lavishes away what his wise father had provided for him. This may refer not to oil only, but to the desired treasure, wealth, riches, substance of every sort, he is heir to and becomes possessed of; and which, in a spiritual sense, may be applied to a foolish wicked man, who misspends his time, neglects the means of grace, and all opportunities by which men grow rich and wise in spiritual things; see Mat 25:1.

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NET Notes: Pro 21:20 Heb “he swallows it.” The imagery compares swallowing food with consuming one’s substance. The fool does not prepare for the future.
Geneva Bible -> Pro 21:20
Geneva Bible: Pro 21:20 [There is] a treasure to be desired and ( i ) oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.
( i ) Meaning, abundance of all thin...

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MHCC -> Pro 21:20
MHCC: Pro 21:20 - --The plenty obtained by prudence, industry, and frugality, is desirable. But the foolish misspend what they have upon their lusts.
Matthew Henry -> Pro 21:20
Matthew Henry: Pro 21:20 - -- Note, 1. Those that are wise will increase what they have and live plentifully; their wisdom will teach them to proportion their expenses to their i...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Pro 21:20
Keil-Delitzsch: Pro 21:20 - --
20 Precious treasure and oil are in the dwelling of the wise;
And a fool of a man squanders it.
The wise spares, the fool squanders; and if the la...
Constable -> Pro 10:1--22:17; Pro 19:1--22:17
Constable: Pro 10:1--22:17 - --II. COUPLETS EXPRESSING WISDOM 10:1--22:16
Chapters 1-9, as we have seen, contain discourses that Solomon eviden...
