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Proverbios 20:14
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Malo, malo, dice el comprador, pero cuando se marcha, entonces se jacta.
El que compra dice: Malo es, malo es; pero cuando se marcha, entonces se alaba.
El que compra dice: Malo es, malo es; mas cuando se aparta, se alaba.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
It is naught: Ecclesiastes 1:10, Hosea 12:7, Hosea 12:8, 1 Thessalonians 4:6
Reciprocal: Proverbs 21:6 - getting
Gill's Notes on the Bible
[It is] naught, [it is] naught, saith the buyer,.... When he comes to the shop of the seller, or to market to buy goods, he undervalues them, says they are not so good as they should be, nor so cheap as he can buy them at;
but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth; after he has brought the seller to as low a price as he can, and has bought the goods, and gone away with them, and got home among his friends; then he boasts what a bargain he has bought, how good the commodity is, how he has been too many for the seller, and has outwitted him; and so glories in his frauds and tricks, and rejoices in his boasting, and all such rejoicing is evil, James 4:16. Jarchi applies this to a man that is a hard student in the law, and through much difficulty gets the knowledge of it, when he is ready to pronounce himself unhappy; but when he is got full fraught with wisdom, then he rejoices at it, and glories in it.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Naught - Bad, worthless 2 Kings 2:19.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 20:14. It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer — How apt are men to decry the goods they wish to purchase, in order that they may get them at a cheaper rate; and, when they have made their bargain and carried it off, boast to others at how much less than its value they have obtained it! Are such honest men? Is such knavery actionable? Can such be punished only in another world? St. Augustine tells us a pleasant story on this subject: A certain mountebank published, in the full theatre, that at the next entertainment he would show to every man present what was in his heart. The time came, and the concourse was immense; all waited, with deathlike silence, to hear what he would say to each. He stood up, and in a single sentence redeemed his pledge: -
VILI vultis EMERE, et CARO VENDERE.
You all wish to BUY CHEAP, and SELL DEAR." He was applauded; for every one felt it to be a description of his own heart, and was satisfied that all others were similar. "In quo dicto levissimi scenici omnes tamen conscientias invenerunt suas.'-DE TRINITATE, lib. xiii., c. 3; OPER. vol. vii., col. 930.
