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Proverbs 20:13
Proverbs 20:13
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I. GOD THE SOURCE OF ALL GOOD.
1. Of all bodily good. The eye, the ear, with all their wondrous mechanism, with all their rich instrumentality of enjoyment, are from him.
2.…Proverbs 20:13Proverbs 20:13 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleNote, 1. Those that indulge themselves in their ease may expect to want
necessaries, which should have been gotten by honest labour.
"Therefore, though thou must sleep (nature requires it), yet love not
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