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Proverbios 25:14
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Como las nubes y el viento sin lluvia es el hombre que se jacta falsamente de sus dones.
Como nubes y vientos sin lluvia, As� es el hombre que se jacta de vana liberalidad.
Como nubes y vientos sin lluvia, as� es el hombre que se jacta en don de mentira.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
boasteth: Proverbs 20:6, 1 Kings 22:11, Luke 14:11, Luke 18:10-14, 2 Corinthians 11:13-18, 2 Corinthians 11:31, 2 Peter 2:15-19, Jude 1:12, Jude 1:13, Jude 1:16
of a false gift: Heb. in a gift of falsehood
Reciprocal: Romans 1:22 - General Romans 15:18 - I will 1 Corinthians 4:8 - ye are full 2 Corinthians 10:13 - we will not Galatians 6:3 - if 1 Timothy 6:4 - He James 4:16 - General
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift,.... Of his charity and alms deeds; bragging of great things he does this way, when he does nothing; or who is very vain in making large promises of what he will give, when he does not perform; either not having it in his heart, or in the power of his hands, to give what he promises; Satan like, who offered to give all the kingdoms of this world to Christ, if he would worship him, when nothing of it belonged unto him, or was in his power to give: and so the Vulgate Latin version renders it, "a glorious man"; that is, a vainglorious man, and "not fulfilling promises". It may very well be applied to false teachers, who boast of their gifts and spiritual knowledge, when they have none; speaking great swelling words of vanity, when they are empty of all that is good, and are as follow:
[is like] like clouds and wind without rain; which make a show and appearance of rain, promise much, but produce none; see 2 Peter 2:17 Judges 1:12.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The disappointment caused by him who promises much and performs little or nothing, is likened to the phenomena of an eastern climate; the drought of summer, the eager expectation of men who watch the rising clouds and the freshening breeze, the bitter disappointment when the breeze dies off, and the clouds pass away, and the wished for rain does not come.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 25:14. A false gift — מתת שקר mattath shaker, a lying gift, one promised, but never bestowed. "Whoso maketh greate boastes, and giveth nothing;" COVERDALE. SO the VULGATE: "Vir gloriosus, et promissa non complens;" "A bragging man, who does not fulfil his promises," is like clouds which appear to be laden with vapour, and like the wind which, though it blow from a rainy quarter, brings no moistness with it. So the vain boaster; he is big with promise, but performs nothing.
