SEV Biblia, Chapter 20:14
ΒΆ El que compra dice: Malo es, malo es; mas cuando se aparta, se alaba.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Proverbs 20:14
Verse 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 theater, 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 eaeh. 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.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 14. [It is] naught, [it is] naught, saith the buyer , etc.] 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.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 14 - Men use arts to get a good bargain, and to buy cheap; whereas a ma ought to be ashamed of a fraud and a lie.
Original Hebrew
רע 7451 רע 7451 יאמר 559 הקונה 7069 ואזל 235 לו אז 227 יתהלל׃ 1984
