20<\/strong>. spendeth<\/em> ] Lit. swalloweth<\/strong>, R.V. So LXX. ; but Vulg. dissipabit<\/em>.<\/p>\n Spendeth it up – <\/B>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<\/span>.<\/P> <\/p>\n Pro 21:20<\/span><\/p>\n There is treasure to be desired . . . in the dwelling of the wise.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Treasure in the house; or proverbs of home-life<\/strong><\/p>\n One simple Saxon word has talismanic power over every heart. That word is home. Who of us can forget our home and home-life in the past? We are now what our mothers made us in that far-off time of childhood. Great are the responsibilities of home-life, for it is the seedtime of the eternal harvest. God Himself instituted the family relationship as one of His antidotes for Satans various enticements. Terrible is the vengeance God exacts for the violation of His laws of love. Education cannot be confined to the school, academy, or college. The true educators are the street and the home. God has given to parents a mighty instrument for good in the family relationship. But home-life and home-lessons will avail little without home-love. And there should be real and attractive pleasures by the fireside and round the home-table. Obedience, truth, and love will give us treasure in the house, and will clothe us with the ornaments of grace in our earthly homes. The same qualities of mind and temper exercised towards the great All-Father in heaven will make us meet for the house above, and lay up for us there <\/strong>treasures that shall never fail. (Wm. Stevens Perry, D. D.<\/em>)<\/p>\n Wise men lay up all necessary and desirable treasures for their own use, and for their children and families. <\/P> Oil<\/B> is particularly mentioned, partly because that was a considerable part of their wealth and treasures in those countries, of which see Deu 7:13<\/span>; 28:40<\/span>,51<\/span>; Jdg 9:9<\/span>; Mic 5:15<\/span>, &c.; and partly to show that his providence reached not only to necessaries, but even to matters of just and lawful delight. <\/P> <\/p>\n 20.<\/B> The wise, by diligence andcare, lay up and increase wealth, while fools <\/P> spend<\/B>literally,”swallow it up,” greedily.<\/P><\/p>\n [There is] a treasure to be desired<\/strong>,…. 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, Mt 6:19<\/span>;<\/p>\n and oil in the dwelling of the wise<\/strong>; 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;<\/p>\n but a foolish man spendeth it up<\/strong>; 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 Mt 25:1<\/span>.<\/p>\n f “tuguirolum”, Mercerus, Gejerus.<\/p>\n 20 Precious treasure and oil are in the dwelling of the wise;<\/p>\n And a fool of a man squanders it.<\/p>\n The wise spares, the fool squanders; and if the latter enters on the inheritance which the former with trouble and care collected, it is soon devoured. The combination [desirable treasure and oil] has something inconcinnate, wherefore the accentuation places by itself by Mehuppach Legarmeh<\/em>; but it is not to be translated “a treasure of that which is precious, and oil,” since it is punctuated , and not ; and besides, in that case would have been used instead of . Thus by , a desirable and splendid capital in gold and things of value (Isa 23:18<\/span>; Psa 19:11<\/span>); and by , mentioned by way of example, stores in kitchen and cellar are to be thought of, which serve him who lives luxuriously, and afford noble hospitality, – a fool of a man ( , as at Pro 15:20<\/span>), who finds this, devours it, i.e.<\/em>, quickly goes through it, makes, in short, a tabula rasa <\/em> of it; cf. , Isa 28:4<\/span>, with , 2Sa 20:26<\/span>, and Pro 19:28<\/span>. The suffix of refers back to as the main idea, or distributively also both to the treasure and the oil. The lxx ( ) , i.e.<\/em>, , according to which Hitzig corrects; but the fool, he who swallows down “the precious treasure with a wise mouth,” is a being we can scarcely conceive of. His taste is not at all bad; why then a fool? Is it perhaps because he takes more in than he can at one time digest? The reading of the lxx is corrected by 20b.<\/p>\n 20 There is<\/I> treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.<\/P> 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 income and to lay up for hereafter; so that there is a treasure<\/I> of things to be desired,<\/I> and as much as needs be desired, a good stock of all things convenient, laid up in season, and particularly of oil,<\/I> one of the staple commodities of Canaan, Deut. viii. 8<\/span>. This is in the habitation,<\/I> or cottage, of the wise;<\/I> and it is better to have an old-fashioned house, and have it well furnished, than a fine modern one, with sorry housekeeping. God blesses the endeavors of the wise and then their houses are replenished. 2. Those that are foolish will misspend what they have upon their lusts, and so bring the stock they have to nothing. Those manage wretchedly that are in haste to spend what they had, but not in care which way to get more. Foolish children spend what their wise parents have laid up. One sinner destroys much good,<\/I> as the prodigal son.<\/P> <\/p>\n Values Material and Spiritual<\/strong><\/p>\n Verse 20 suggests that the wise will live within their means, taking care to lay up for the future a portion of oil and other staples produced (Deu 8:8<\/span>; Deu 22:4<\/span>; Psa 112:3<\/span>); but the foolish use or spend all in haste, with no provision for the future, Vs 17; Pro 12:27<\/span>; Job 20:15<\/span>; Job 20:18<\/span>; Luk 15:13<\/span>.<\/p>\n 20<\/strong>. <\/strong> Treasure to be desired <\/strong> All desirable stores, including oil, the emblem of abundance and comfort. <\/p>\n Dwelling <\/strong> Abode or cottage. The word seems to imply comeliness, beauty. <\/p>\n Foolish man <\/strong> Or, fool of a man, as in Pro 15:20<\/span>. <\/p>\n Spendeth it up <\/strong> Rather, swallows it down. The wise man uses prudently his stores, and has plenty; the fool lavishly devours them, and has nothing. In its spiritual application, compare the parable of the virgins, Mat 25:1-13<\/span>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n v. 20. There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise,<\/strong> because he will carefully lay up and increase wealth; but a foolish man spendeth it up,<\/strong> he is a spendthrift and a waster. <\/p>\n Pro 21:20<\/span><\/em><\/strong>. <\/strong>There is a treasure, <\/em><\/strong>&c.<\/strong> Desirable treasure and oil are in the dwelling, <\/em>&c. Houbigant renders the last clause, But a foolish man will dissipate these: <\/em>and Schultens, But a foolish man, <\/em>or a man given to luxury or extravagance, absorbs it; i.e<\/em>. all that desirable treasure and opulence which his wise and careful father had abundantly laid up. <\/p>\n There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n What treasure is this, but that which is derived from him, in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Col 2:3<\/span> . And how doth the foolish spend it up? Surely, when despising his great salvation and rejecting this counsel of God against their own Souls.<\/p>\n Pro 21:20<\/span> [There is] treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.<\/p>\n Ver. 20. There is a treasure to be desired.<\/strong> ] He had said before, He that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich. Here he shows, that though these things may not be loved or lavished, yet they may and must be had and heaped up in a way of good husbandry for necessity, yea, for honest affluence; that we may not only live, but live comfortably; that we may not only have prisoner’s pittance, so much as will keep us alive, but that we may have plenty of things desirable, both for profit, as treasure, and for delight, as oil. And these things must not be foolishly wasted, as they are usually by unthrifts, lest that make the wife that wants angry and unquiet, as in the former verse.<\/p>\n foolish. Hebrew. kesil. See note on Pro 1:7. <\/p>\n spendeth it up = swalloweth it up. <\/p>\n Pro 21:20<\/p>\n Pro 21:20<\/p>\n “There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; But a foolish man swalloweth it up.”<\/p>\n This is the common viewpoint of Proverbs that the wise are wealthy and the fool is in poverty. There is a limited sense in which this is true; “But in the spiritual warfare, earthly wisdom avails nothing at all (1Co 1:5-16,2Co 10:4).<\/p>\n Pro 21:20. Wisdom knows the earthly value of precious treasure and oil (olive oil, which was so useful in Bible days). Men of God like Job, Abraham, David, and others were blessed with an abundance of these, yet they were apparently not selfish with them (did Abraham appear selfish in offering nephew Lot the choice of the land in Gen 13:2-12?) but were willing to give to others from their store (Job 31:16-23). The contrast within our verse shows that the foolish devours everything he gets his hands on. Is this not the way with many today? They draw big money per hour, blow it all in, and the slightest emergency proves to be a major calamity financially. The Bible says that we are (1) to labor (2) at honest occupations (3) so that we will have something left over above our own needs to give to those who are in need (Eph 4:28).<\/p>\n 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 <\/p>\n oil: Psa 23:5, Jer 41:8, Mat 25:3, Mat 25:4 <\/p>\n but: Mat 25:3, Mat 25:4, Mat 25:8, Luk 15:14, Luk 16:1, Luk 16:19-25 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Pro 14:11 – the tabernacle Pro 21:17 – loveth Pro 24:4 – General Pro 28:10 – but Pro 29:3 – he Luk 15:13 – wasted<\/p>\n Pro 21:20. There is a treasure, &c., in the dwelling of the wise Wise men lay up all necessary and desirable treasures for their own use and for their families. Oil is particularly mentioned, because it was a considerable part of their wealth and treasures in those countries; but a foolish man spendeth it Or, as Houbigant renders the clause, A foolish man will dissipate these; or, as Schultens reads it, A foolish man, a man given to luxury and extravagance, absorbs it; that is, all that desirable treasure and opulence which his wise and careful father had abundantly laid up. <\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n (i) Meaning, abundance of all things.<\/p>\n [There is] treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up. 20. spendeth ] Lit. swalloweth, R.V. So LXX. ; but Vulg. dissipabit. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges Spendeth it up – literally, swalloweth it. 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