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Proverbs 20:14 KJV
Proverbs · chapter 20 · verse 14
It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.Proverbs 20:14 · King James Version
Proverbs 20:14 in context
12The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.
13Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
14It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
15There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
16Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- naughtraʻbad or evilH7451 →
- saithʼâmarto sayH559 →
- buyerqânâhto erectH7069 →
- goneʼâzalto go away, hence, to disappearH235 →
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See here 1. What arts men use to get a good bargain and to buy cheap. They not only cheapen carelessly, as if they had no need, no mind for the commodity, when perhaps they cannot go without it (there may be prudence in that), but they vilify and run down that which yet they know to be of value;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary