Proverbs 20:14 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁴It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.

Proverbs 20:14 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Thessalonians 4:6
That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
Hosea 12:7-8
He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress. …
Ecclesiastes 1:10
Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.

Topics

Boasting Cheating Conceit Consistency Deceit Deception Dishonesty Dissembling

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 14)

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; they cry, “ It is naught, it is naught; it has this and the other fault, or perhaps may have; it is not…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 14)

14. when ... his way--implying that he goes about boasting of his bargains.