Proverbs 20:14
It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
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…
Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714
Matthew Henry
See here 1. What arts men use to get a good bargain and to buy cheap. They not only cheapen carelessly, as if they had no need, no mind for the commodity, when perhaps they cannot go without it (there…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
naught i.e. an inferior article. Comp. 2Ki 2:19. By decrying it he gets it cheap, and then goes his way and boasts of his cleverness. Mr Bridges, in his Commentary on Proverbs, quotes here from…