Proverbs 20:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.

Proverbs 20:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 16:32
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
Proverbs 17:14
The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
Proverbs 19:11
The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
Proverbs 18:6
A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
Ephesians 4:32
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 3)

This is designed to rectify men’s mistakes concerning strife. 1. Men think it is their wisdom to engage in quarrels; whereas it is the greatest folly that can be. He thinks himself a wise man that is quick in resenting affronts, that stands upon every nicety of honour and right, and will not abate an ace of either, that prescribes, and imposes, and gives law, to every body; but he that thus meddle…

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

(vv. 3)

3. to cease from strife--or, better, “to dwell from or without strife,” denoting the habit of life. fool ... meddling--(Pr 17:14).