Psalms 11:5(v16)Yahweh examines the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and him who loves violence.
Proverbs 8:13(v16)The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.
Proverbs 11:20(v16)Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to Yahweh, but those whose ways are blameless are his delight.
Deuteronomy 25:16(v16)For all who do such things, all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
Proverbs 17:15(v16)He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
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Proverbs 3:32(v16)For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, but his friendship is with the upright.
2 Chronicles 36:16(v15)but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people,…
Proverbs 11:1(v16)A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.
Jeremiah 19:11(v15)and shall tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “Even so I will break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter’s vessel, that can’t…
Micah 2:1(v14)Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of…
Romans 16:17(v14)Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you…
Deuteronomy 24:4(v16)her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife after she is defiled; for that would be an abomination to…
Proverbs 6:18-19(v14)a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief, a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord…
Proverbs 15:8-9(v16)The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight. The way of the wicked is an…
Hosea 8:7(v14)For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield,…
1 Thessalonians 5:3(v15)For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they…
Deuteronomy 18:10-12(v16)There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who tells…
Deuteronomy 23:18(v16)You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of a male prostitute, into the house of Yahweh your God for any vow; for both of…
Psalms 36:4(v14)He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.
Psalms 73:18-20(v15)Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction. How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away…
Proverbs 1:27(v15)when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come on you.
Proverbs 2:14(v14)who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil,
Proverbs 20:23(v16)Yahweh detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing.
Proverbs 26:17-22(v14)Like one who grabs a dog’s ears is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own. Like a madman who shoots torches, arrows, and…
Proverbs 30:21(v16)“For three things the earth trembles, and under four, it can’t bear up:
Isaiah 30:13-14(v15)therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an…
Amos 1:3(v16)Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have threshed Gilead…
Amos 1:6(v16)Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Gaza, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they carried away captive the…
Amos 1:9(v16)Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Tyre, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they delivered up the whole…
Amos 1:11(v16)Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he pursued his brother with the…
Amos 2:1(v16)Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Moab, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he burned the bones of the king…
Psalms 50:22(v15)“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.
Proverbs 3:29(v14)Don’t devise evil against your neighbor, since he dwells securely by you.
Proverbs 16:28-30(v14)A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends. A man of violence entices his neighbor, and leads him in a way that is…
Proverbs 20:10(v16)Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
Proverbs 21:8(v14)The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.
Proverbs 22:8(v14)He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
Proverbs 29:1(v15)He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.
Proverbs 30:29(v16)“There are three things which are stately in their march, four which are stately in going:
Isaiah 32:7(v14)The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked plans to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.
Isaiah 57:20(v14)But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can’t rest and its waters cast up mire and mud.
Ezekiel 11:2(v14)He said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city;
Amos 2:4(v16)Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have rejected Yahweh’s…
Amos 2:6(v16)Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have sold the righteous…
Galatians 6:7-8(v14)Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh…
Proverbs 30:18(v16)“There are three things which are too amazing for me, four which I don’t understand:
Proverbs 30:24(v16)“There are four things which are little on the earth, but they are exceedingly wise:
Revelation 21:27(v16)There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the…
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John Trapp1656 · Public DomainOn vv14–16Pro 6:14 Frowardness [is] in his heart, he deviseth…
Pro 6:14 Frowardness [is] in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
Ver. 14. Frowardness is in his heart.] What marvel then though he solecise with his hand, {a} though he twinkle with his eye, and tinkle with his feet, &c.? "When he speaketh fair, believe him not, for there are seven abominations in his heart." {Pro 26:25} Even those seven next mentioned here, {Pro 6:16-19} as Aben Ezra conceiveth upon that text.
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He deviseth mischief continually.] Heb., At all times. Pliny speaks of the scorpion, that there is not one minute wherein it doth not put forth the sting. The soul of a wicked man is "in a sling," {1Sa 25:29} restless, and violently tossed about by Satan, who acts and agitates him. {Eph 2:2 Mic 2:1 Hos 7:6}
He soweth discord.] And so shows himself a true breathing devil, a disciple of Machiavel, whose maxim was, divide et impera, make division and get dominion. In the year 1579, Allen at Rhemes instructed his emissary seducers, sent over into England, to make way for their great project of perdition in 1588, by dividing the people under the terms of Protestant and Puritan, and provoking them thereby to real and mutual both hate and contempt. {b} And what labouring there is now by the Jesuit party to heighten our unhappy differences, that they may make themselves masters of all, who seeth not? Herein they deal, - saith Gregory, of the like factors for the devil in his time, - as the master of the pit, who oft sets two cocks to fight together to the death of both, that after mutual conquest, he may sup with both their carcases. The Jews, before they were banished out of this kingdom, threw bags of poison into the wells and fountains that the people were to drink of, and thereby endeavoured to poison them all: so do our seedsmen of sedition.
{a} Oυτος τη χειρι σολοικιζει.
{b} Archbishop Abbot’s answer to Dr HilI’s Three Reasons.
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Matthew Poole1685 · Public DomainOn vv14–16Frowardness; perverse or wicked thoughts and desires.
Frowardness; perverse or wicked thoughts and desires.
He soweth discord; either out of malice against others, or out of a base design of improving it to his own advantage.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Gill1763 · Public DomainOn vv14–16Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly,.... Unthought of and…
Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly,.... Unthought of and unexpected: he that deviseth mischief to others secretly shall have no warning of his own ruin, nor time and means of preventing it; the destruction of antichrist will be sudden, and of all wicked men at the coming of Christ, Th1 5:3;
suddenly shall he be broken without remedy; or, "and there shall be no healing" (b): his bones will be broken to pieces, and there will be no cure for him; or he shall be like an earthen vessel, which, when broke, cannot be put together again. The ruin of wicked men is sudden, inevitable, and irreparable; so antichrist will "come to his end, and none shall help him", Dan 11:45.
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
John Wesley1765 · Public DomainOn v16Hate - Above many other sins which have a…
Hate - Above many other sins which have a worse name in the world.
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Adam Clarke1810 · Public DomainOn vv14–16Verse 14. He deviseth mischief] He plots schemes and…
Verse 14. He deviseth mischief] He plots schemes and plans to bring it to pass.
He soweth discord.] Between men and their wives, by seducing the latter from their fidelity. See the preceding quotation.
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Joseph Benson1811 · Public DomainOn v16Pro 6:16-19. These six things — Generally found in…
Pro 6:16-19. These six things — Generally found in those men of Belial, described in the foregoing verses; doth the Lord hate — Namely, above many other sins, which have a worse name in the world; a proud look — Pride of heart, which commonly discovers itself by a man’s looks and gestures; a lying tongue — Lying and deceit in his common conversation. A heart that deviseth wicked imaginations — Whose practice it is to design and contrive wickedness. Feet that be swift in running to mischief — Such as greedily and readily execute their wicked designs, without any restraint or delay. A false witness that speaketh lies — Namely, in judgment: whereby this differs from the former lying, Pro 6:17; and him that soweth discord among brethren — That is, dear relations or friends.
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Albert Barnes1834 · Public DomainOn vv15–16The duper and the dupe shall share the same…
The duper and the dupe shall share the same calamity.
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Charles Bridges1846 · Public DomainOn v16Man conceives of God in his heart as "such…
Man conceives of God in his heart as "such a one as himself" (Psa 50:21 ), looking with indifference at sin. Here therefore Solomon names six — yea — seven (Compare Pro 30:15-18 ) abominations (most of them mentioned in the preceding list) which the LORD hateth — a proud look,†1 a lying tongue,†2 a blood-stained hand.†3 And, lest we should think, that he "looketh only on the outward appearance;" the heart, active in devising wickedness,†4 is brought out; and its ready organ, the feet swift in running to mischief. (Pro 1:16 . Isa 59:7 . Rom 3:15 .) How hateful also is the false witness (Zec 8:17 ), surely reserved by him for judgment! (Pro 19:5 . Zec 5:4 . Mal 3:5 .) Let the self-willed separatist remember the double stamp (Pro 6:14, Pro 6:19 ) upon him that soweth discord among brethren. If the heavenly "dew descends upon the brethren that dwell together in unity" (Psa 133:1-3 .), a withering blast will fall on those, who, mistaking prejudice for principle, "cause divisions" for their own selfish ends. (Rom 16:17-18 .) Fearful is the Lord’s mark upon them — "sensual, having not the Spirit."†5 If we cannot attain unity of opinion — "perfectly joined together in the same mind, and in the same judgment;"†6 at least let us cultivate unity of spirit — "Whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule; let us mind the same thing." (Php 3:16 .)
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†1 Pro 8:13; Pro 30:13 . Psa 18:27 . Isa 2:12 . Jer 1:31 — the examples of Pharoah — Exo 9:16 . Haman — Est 7:10 . Nebuchadnezzar — Dan 4:28-33 . Herod — Act 12:21-23 .
†5 Jud 1:19. 1Co 3:3-4 . Let the wisdom of experience given by an accurate observer of himself and the Church, be seriously pondered — ’I am much more sensible of the evil of schism, and of the separating humour, and of gathering parties, and making several sects in the Church, than I was heretofore. For the effects have shown us more of the mischiefs. I am much more sensible, how prone many young professors are to spiritual pride and self-conceitedness, and unruliness, and division, and so prove the grief of their teachers, and firebrands in the Church. I am much more sensible than heretofore of the breadth, and length, and depth of the radical, universal, odious sin of selfishness, and the excellency and necessity of self-denial, and of a public mind, and of loving our neighbour as ourselves.’ — Baxter’s Narrative of his Life and Times.
†6 1Co 1:10 — ’A text’ — says the godly Flavel — ’to be commented upon rather by tears than by words.’ — Sermon on Text.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary1859 · Public DomainOn v16Detesteth. This expression does not always mean that the…
Detesteth. This expression does not always mean that the last is worse than the former. (Menochius) --- All the six sins are damnable, but the seventh is here, most so, being against charity and unity, and the devil’s sin. (Worthington) --- Lying seems to be reprobated by three different terms. (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown1871 · Public DomainOn vv14–16Frowardness--as in Pro 2:14.
Frowardness--as in Pro 2:14.
deviseth--literally, "constructs, as an artisan."
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mischief--evil to others.
discord--especially litigation. Cunning is the talent of the weak and lazy.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Daniel D. Whedon1874 · Public DomainOn vv14–1614. Frowardness — Perversions.
14. Frowardness — Perversions.
Soweth — Casteth forth, or excites. Such men are perpetually at work contriving mischief, exciting suspicious, stirring up hatred, strife, brawls, lawsuits, discords in families, and revolutions in governments.
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges1878 · Public DomainOn vv14, 1614. soweth) Vulg. seminat. So R.V. with “Heb. letteth…
14. soweth) Vulg. seminat. So R.V. with “Heb. letteth loose”, in marg. Lit. sendeth or casteth forth, as was done in the hand sowing of those days and countries. Comp. ὡς ἄνθρωπος βάλῃ τὸν σπόρον ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, Mar_4:26. The idea of sowing is not contained, however, in the Heb. word, and the phrase “sowing strife” may merely be chosen as the best Eng. equivalent for the Heb. phrase. Comp. Pro_6:19 below, and Pro_16:28.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers1878 · Public DomainOn vv15–16(15) Suddenly shall he be broken.—Shattered as a potter’s…
(15) Suddenly shall he be broken.—Shattered as a potter’s vessel (Isa_30:14), without hope of recovery. This character of a malicious mischief-maker would seem to be especially hateful to God; it is described in like terms in Psalms 64 and a similar fate foretold of it; in Pro_6:19 also it is held up as the very worst of the seven detestable things there mentioned.
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The Pulpit Commentary1880 · Public DomainOn vv14–16From these external features the teacher passes to the…
From these external features the teacher passes to the heart the seat of all this mischief and deceit. In this respect we observe a striking correspondence with the method adopted by our Saviour in his leaching, who referred everything to the heart, as the true seat of all that was good or bad in man. Frowardness is in his heart (Hebrew, tah"pukoth b"libbo); i.e. his heart is full of perverse imaginations, it is there he nourishes his jealousy, his hatred, his malice, his ill will. It is there, too, he deviseth mischief continually. "Devising mischief" carries us one step further back in the history of evil. It is this feature, this deliberate premeditation to plot mischief and to devise means to carry it into execution, which makes the character of the man simply diabolical. He makes his heart as it were the workshop wherein he fabricates and prepares his villainy. The Hebrew kharash (to which the participle khoresh belongs) is equivalent to the Vulgate machinari, and the LXX tekainomai , "to fabricate, devise, plot." (See Pro_3:29 and ver. 18; and cf. Psa_36:4, "He deviseth mischief upon his bed. The LXX combines the two statements in one proposition: "A perverse heart deviseth evil at all times." Similarly the Vulgate, which, however, joins "continually" (Hebrew, b"koleth; Vulgate, omni tempore) to the second hemistich, thus: "And at all times he sows discord (et omni tempore jurgia seminat)." He soweth discord (Hebrew, mid"-yanim (Keri) y"shalleakh); literally, he sends forth (i.e. excites) strife; or, as the margin, he casteth forth strife. The Keri reading mid"yanim, for the Khetib m"danim, is probably, as Hitzig suggests, derived from Gen_37:36. The phrase occurs again as shallakh m"danim in ver. 19, and as shillakh madon Pro_16:28. (cf. Pro_10:12) This is the culminating point in the character of the wicked man. He takes delight in breaking up friendship and in destroying concord among brethren (see ver. 19), and thus destroys one of the most essential elements for promoting individual happiness and the welfare of the community at large. This idea of the community is introduced into the LXX, which reads, "Such a one brings disturbance to the city (o tosoutov taracasthsi polei )." The motive cause may be either malice or self-interest.
Sowing discord.
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I THE SOWER. He may be of various characters.
1. A malignant person. Such a one delights in the mischief he makes. He flings the firebrand with fiendish glee because he loves to witness the conflagration. He is a true child of Satan, one to break the peace of Eden, one to set Cain to murder his brother.
2. A person greedy of power. It is easier to make trouble than to mend it. Nothing is more simple than to scatter seeds of quarrels. A single pebble flung into the middle of a mountain tam will shatter the fair mirror of crag and sky, and spread disturbing wavelets to every shore. There is a sense of power, of producing a great effect, in mischief making.
3. A selfish person. If we always claim our does and exact our pound of flesh, we must be perpetually embroiled in quarrels. Disregard to the rights of others, which is only too common with the selfish, will lead one individual to plunge a whole society into confusion.
4. A heedless person. It is so easy to sow discord that we may do the mischievous thing before we are aware of our folly. It needs care and watchfulness to avoid this disastrous conduct.
II THE SEED.
1. A misrepresentation. Thomas Carlyle pointed out how often rational quarrels and wars spring from "misunderstandings." If we knew each other better we should be more friendly. Our acquaintances tend to become our friends. But a misrepresentation is the parent of a misunderstanding, and as such the seed of discord.
2. A hot word. If we approached a troublesome question calmly and patiently we might see a way of avoiding all quarrelling over it. But when the anger is roused everything appears in its worst light; there is no inclination to smooth ever a difficulty; on the contrary, opposition is magnified.
3. An unkind word, This may be spoken deliberately. The more cool the speaker, the more cutting his speech.
III THE SOIL. The discord is sown "among brethren.
1. A possible soil. One would say that here no quarrels can grow. But, alas! they who should love most can hate with bitterest hatred, or, if no deep dislike be engendered, they may still quarrel most fiercely. The first quarrel was between brethren Cain and Abel. Esau and Jacob, the two Hebrews whom Moses rebuked in Egypt, the nations of Israel and Judah, were all brethren in discord.
2. A fruitful soil. Surely it would be thought discord among brethren cannot last and spread. But experience proves the contrary. Family feuds are deep, bitter, enduring. Church quarrels are most rancorous. Civil war is sanguinary.
IV THE HARVEST. This discord is no slight thing like the breeze that disturbs the lake for one moment and speedily leaves it to resume its normal placidity.
1. It is painful. Pride may conceal the wound, but the sore is not slight. No misery is greater than that of fancily quarrels.
2. It is injurious. It raises evil passions, hinders harmonious action, wastes resources in internecine strife. All men are of one blood, therefore all war is discord, among brethren; and who shall measure its frightful harvest of woe?
3. It is unchristian. The gospel proclaims and enforces brotherhood. It helps us to realize the dream of the psalmist, "Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!". (Psa_133:1) Christ blessed the peacemaker. (Mat_5:9)
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The Biblical Illustrator1887 · Public DomainOn v16These six things doth the Lord hate.
Pro_6:16-19
These six things doth the Lord hate.
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The seven abominable things
A catalogue of evils specially odious to the Infinite One.
I. Haughty bearing. A proud look. Pride is frequently represented in the Bible as an offence to the Holy God. Haughtiness is an abomination, because it implies--
1. Self-ignorance.
2. Unkindness.
3. Irreverence.
II. Verbal falsehood. A lying tongue.
1. Falsehood always implies a wrong heart. A pure heart supplies no motive for falsehood. Vanity, avarice, ambition, cowardice are the parents and patrons of lies.
2. Falsehood always has a bad social tendency. It disappoints expectations, shakes confidence, loosens the very foundations of social order.
III. Heartless cruelty. Hands that shed innocent blood. Cruelty implies--
1. An utter lack of sympathy with Gods creatures.
2. An utter lack of sympathy with Gods mind. He who inflicts pain is out of sympathy both with the universe and with his Maker.
IV. Vicious scheming. A heart that deviseth wicked imaginations. There are some hearts so bad that they are ever inventing some evil thing. Illustrate by antediluvian man.
V. Mischievous eagerness. Feet swift in running to mischief. They not only do mischief, but they do it eagerly, with ready vigilance; they have a greed for it.
VI. Social slander. The slanderer is amongst the greatest of social curses. He robs his fellow-creature of his greatest treasure--his own reputation, and the loving confidence of his friends.
VII. Disturbing strife. And he that soweth discord among brethren. He who by tale-bearing, ill-natured stories, and wicked inventions produces the disruptions of friendship, is abhorrent to that God who desires His creatures to live in love and unity. This subject serves to show three things--
1. The moral hideousness of the world. These seven evils everywhere abound.
2. The immaculate purity of God. He hates these things. Therefore they are foreign to himself.
3. The true mission of the godly--to endeavour to rid the world of the evils offensive to Heaven. (D. Thomas, D. D.)
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unfoldingWord translationNotes2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0On vv14, 16He plots evil
He plots evil
"He plans evil" or "He prepares to do evil deeds"
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he always stirs up discord
"he always causes discord" or "he is constantly looking for conflict and escalating it"
Therefore
"For that reason"
his disaster will overtake him
This implies that the disaster is chasing him like a person or an animal, and that it will catch him soon. AT: "his disaster will catch him" (See: Personification)
his disaster
This refers to the disaster that will happen to him, but also the disaster that he himself caused.
in an instant; in a moment
Both mean the same thing, and one or both of them can be replaced by "suddenly" or "very quickly."
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv14–16 Pro 6:14 Frowardness [is] in his heart, he deviseth…
Pro 6:14 Frowardness [is] in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
Ver. 14. Frowardness is in his heart.] What marvel then though he solecise with his hand, {a} though he twinkle with his eye, and tinkle with his feet, &c.? "When he speaketh fair, believe him not, for there are seven abominations in his heart." {Pro 26:25} Even those seven next mentioned here, {Pro 6:16-19} as Aben Ezra conceiveth upon that text.
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He deviseth mischief continually.] Heb., At all times. Pliny speaks of the scorpion, that there is not one minute wherein it doth not put forth the sting. The soul of a wicked man is "in a sling," {1Sa 25:29} restless, and violently tossed about by Satan, who acts and agitates him. {Eph 2:2 Mic 2:1 Hos 7:6}
He soweth discord.] And so shows himself a true breathing devil, a disciple of Machiavel, whose maxim was, divide et impera, make division and get dominion. In the year 1579, Allen at Rhemes instructed his emissary seducers, sent over into England, to make way for their great project of perdition in 1588, by dividing the people under the terms of Protestant and Puritan, and provoking them thereby to real and mutual both hate and contempt. {b} And what labouring there is now by the Jesuit party to heighten our unhappy differences, that they may make themselves masters of all, who seeth not? Herein they deal, - saith Gregory, of the like factors for the devil in his time, - as the master of the pit, who oft sets two cocks to fight together to the death of both, that after mutual conquest, he may sup with both their carcases. The Jews, before they were banished out of this kingdom, threw bags of poison into the wells and fountains that the people were to drink of, and thereby endeavoured to poison them all: so do our seedsmen of sedition.
{a} Oυτος τη χειρι σολοικιζει.
{b} Archbishop Abbot’s answer to Dr HilI’s Three Reasons.
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv14–16 Frowardness; perverse or wicked thoughts and desires.
Frowardness; perverse or wicked thoughts and desires.
He soweth discord; either out of malice against others, or out of a base design of improving it to his own advantage.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv14–16 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly,.... Unthought of and…
Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly,.... Unthought of and unexpected: he that deviseth mischief to others secretly shall have no warning of his own ruin, nor time and means of preventing it; the destruction of antichrist will be sudden, and of all wicked men at the coming of Christ, Th1 5:3;
suddenly shall he be broken without remedy; or, "and there shall be no healing" (b): his bones will be broken to pieces, and there will be no cure for him; or he shall be like an earthen vessel, which, when broke, cannot be put together again. The ruin of wicked men is sudden, inevitable, and irreparable; so antichrist will "come to his end, and none shall help him", Dan 11:45.
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(b) "et non sanitas", Pagninus, Montanus; "curatio", Junius & Tremellius; "medicina", Piscator, Cocceius.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On v16 Hate - Above many other sins which have a…
Hate - Above many other sins which have a worse name in the world.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On vv14–16 Verse 14. He deviseth mischief] He plots schemes and…
Verse 14. He deviseth mischief] He plots schemes and plans to bring it to pass.
He soweth discord.] Between men and their wives, by seducing the latter from their fidelity. See the preceding quotation.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On v16 Pro 6:16-19. These six things — Generally found in…
Pro 6:16-19. These six things — Generally found in those men of Belial, described in the foregoing verses; doth the Lord hate — Namely, above many other sins, which have a worse name in the world; a proud look — Pride of heart, which commonly discovers itself by a man’s looks and gestures; a lying tongue — Lying and deceit in his common conversation. A heart that deviseth wicked imaginations — Whose practice it is to design and contrive wickedness. Feet that be swift in running to mischief — Such as greedily and readily execute their wicked designs, without any restraint or delay. A false witness that speaketh lies — Namely, in judgment: whereby this differs from the former lying, Pro 6:17; and him that soweth discord among brethren — That is, dear relations or friends.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On vv15–16 The duper and the dupe shall share the same…
The duper and the dupe shall share the same calamity.
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Charles Bridges 1846 · Public Domain On v16 Man conceives of God in his heart as "such…
Man conceives of God in his heart as "such a one as himself" (Psa 50:21 ), looking with indifference at sin. Here therefore Solomon names six — yea — seven (Compare Pro 30:15-18 ) abominations (most of them mentioned in the preceding list) which the LORD hateth — a proud look,†1 a lying tongue,†2 a blood-stained hand.†3 And, lest we should think, that he "looketh only on the outward appearance;" the heart, active in devising wickedness,†4 is brought out; and its ready organ, the feet swift in running to mischief. (Pro 1:16 . Isa 59:7 . Rom 3:15 .) How hateful also is the false witness (Zec 8:17 ), surely reserved by him for judgment! (Pro 19:5 . Zec 5:4 . Mal 3:5 .) Let the self-willed separatist remember the double stamp (Pro 6:14, Pro 6:19 ) upon him that soweth discord among brethren. If the heavenly "dew descends upon the brethren that dwell together in unity" (Psa 133:1-3 .), a withering blast will fall on those, who, mistaking prejudice for principle, "cause divisions" for their own selfish ends. (Rom 16:17-18 .) Fearful is the Lord’s mark upon them — "sensual, having not the Spirit."†5 If we cannot attain unity of opinion — "perfectly joined together in the same mind, and in the same judgment;"†6 at least let us cultivate unity of spirit — "Whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule; let us mind the same thing." (Php 3:16 .)
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†1 Pro 8:13; Pro 30:13 . Psa 18:27 . Isa 2:12 . Jer 1:31 — the examples of Pharoah — Exo 9:16 . Haman — Est 7:10 . Nebuchadnezzar — Dan 4:28-33 . Herod — Act 12:21-23 .
†2 Pro 12:22. Psa 5:6 . Rev 21:8 . Gehazi — 2Ki 5:25-27 . Ananias and Sapphira — Act 5:1-10 .
†3 Gen 9:6. Cain — Gen 4:8-12 . Manasseh — 2Ki 21:15-16 . Specially the murderers of his dear Son — Mat 23:31-38 .
†4 Ahithophel — 2Sa 16:20-23 ; 2Sa 17:23 . Mic 2:1 . 2Pe 2:14 .
†5 Jud 1:19. 1Co 3:3-4 . Let the wisdom of experience given by an accurate observer of himself and the Church, be seriously pondered — ’I am much more sensible of the evil of schism, and of the separating humour, and of gathering parties, and making several sects in the Church, than I was heretofore. For the effects have shown us more of the mischiefs. I am much more sensible, how prone many young professors are to spiritual pride and self-conceitedness, and unruliness, and division, and so prove the grief of their teachers, and firebrands in the Church. I am much more sensible than heretofore of the breadth, and length, and depth of the radical, universal, odious sin of selfishness, and the excellency and necessity of self-denial, and of a public mind, and of loving our neighbour as ourselves.’ — Baxter’s Narrative of his Life and Times.
†6 1Co 1:10 — ’A text’ — says the godly Flavel — ’to be commented upon rather by tears than by words.’ — Sermon on Text.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On v16 Detesteth. This expression does not always mean that the…
Detesteth. This expression does not always mean that the last is worse than the former. (Menochius) --- All the six sins are damnable, but the seventh is here, most so, being against charity and unity, and the devil’s sin. (Worthington) --- Lying seems to be reprobated by three different terms. (Calmet)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On vv14–16 Frowardness--as in Pro 2:14.
Frowardness--as in Pro 2:14.
deviseth--literally, "constructs, as an artisan."
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mischief--evil to others.
discord--especially litigation. Cunning is the talent of the weak and lazy.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv14–16 14. Frowardness — Perversions.
14. Frowardness — Perversions.
Soweth — Casteth forth, or excites. Such men are perpetually at work contriving mischief, exciting suspicious, stirring up hatred, strife, brawls, lawsuits, discords in families, and revolutions in governments.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv14, 16 14. soweth) Vulg. seminat. So R.V. with “Heb. letteth…
14. soweth) Vulg. seminat. So R.V. with “Heb. letteth loose”, in marg. Lit. sendeth or casteth forth, as was done in the hand sowing of those days and countries. Comp. ὡς ἄνθρωπος βάλῃ τὸν σπόρον ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, Mar_4:26. The idea of sowing is not contained, however, in the Heb. word, and the phrase “sowing strife” may merely be chosen as the best Eng. equivalent for the Heb. phrase. Comp. Pro_6:19 below, and Pro_16:28.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv15–16 (15) Suddenly shall he be broken.—Shattered as a potter’s…
(15) Suddenly shall he be broken.—Shattered as a potter’s vessel (Isa_30:14), without hope of recovery. This character of a malicious mischief-maker would seem to be especially hateful to God; it is described in like terms in Psalms 64 and a similar fate foretold of it; in Pro_6:19 also it is held up as the very worst of the seven detestable things there mentioned.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv14–16 From these external features the teacher passes to the…
From these external features the teacher passes to the heart the seat of all this mischief and deceit. In this respect we observe a striking correspondence with the method adopted by our Saviour in his leaching, who referred everything to the heart, as the true seat of all that was good or bad in man. Frowardness is in his heart (Hebrew, tah"pukoth b"libbo); i.e. his heart is full of perverse imaginations, it is there he nourishes his jealousy, his hatred, his malice, his ill will. It is there, too, he deviseth mischief continually. "Devising mischief" carries us one step further back in the history of evil. It is this feature, this deliberate premeditation to plot mischief and to devise means to carry it into execution, which makes the character of the man simply diabolical. He makes his heart as it were the workshop wherein he fabricates and prepares his villainy. The Hebrew kharash (to which the participle khoresh belongs) is equivalent to the Vulgate machinari, and the LXX tekainomai , "to fabricate, devise, plot." (See Pro_3:29 and ver. 18; and cf. Psa_36:4, "He deviseth mischief upon his bed. The LXX combines the two statements in one proposition: "A perverse heart deviseth evil at all times." Similarly the Vulgate, which, however, joins "continually" (Hebrew, b"koleth; Vulgate, omni tempore) to the second hemistich, thus: "And at all times he sows discord (et omni tempore jurgia seminat)." He soweth discord (Hebrew, mid"-yanim (Keri) y"shalleakh); literally, he sends forth (i.e. excites) strife; or, as the margin, he casteth forth strife. The Keri reading mid"yanim, for the Khetib m"danim, is probably, as Hitzig suggests, derived from Gen_37:36. The phrase occurs again as shallakh m"danim in ver. 19, and as shillakh madon Pro_16:28. (cf. Pro_10:12) This is the culminating point in the character of the wicked man. He takes delight in breaking up friendship and in destroying concord among brethren (see ver. 19), and thus destroys one of the most essential elements for promoting individual happiness and the welfare of the community at large. This idea of the community is introduced into the LXX, which reads, "Such a one brings disturbance to the city (o tosoutov taracasthsi polei )." The motive cause may be either malice or self-interest.
Sowing discord.
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I THE SOWER. He may be of various characters.
1. A malignant person. Such a one delights in the mischief he makes. He flings the firebrand with fiendish glee because he loves to witness the conflagration. He is a true child of Satan, one to break the peace of Eden, one to set Cain to murder his brother.
2. A person greedy of power. It is easier to make trouble than to mend it. Nothing is more simple than to scatter seeds of quarrels. A single pebble flung into the middle of a mountain tam will shatter the fair mirror of crag and sky, and spread disturbing wavelets to every shore. There is a sense of power, of producing a great effect, in mischief making.
3. A selfish person. If we always claim our does and exact our pound of flesh, we must be perpetually embroiled in quarrels. Disregard to the rights of others, which is only too common with the selfish, will lead one individual to plunge a whole society into confusion.
4. A heedless person. It is so easy to sow discord that we may do the mischievous thing before we are aware of our folly. It needs care and watchfulness to avoid this disastrous conduct.
II THE SEED.
1. A misrepresentation. Thomas Carlyle pointed out how often rational quarrels and wars spring from "misunderstandings." If we knew each other better we should be more friendly. Our acquaintances tend to become our friends. But a misrepresentation is the parent of a misunderstanding, and as such the seed of discord.
2. A hot word. If we approached a troublesome question calmly and patiently we might see a way of avoiding all quarrelling over it. But when the anger is roused everything appears in its worst light; there is no inclination to smooth ever a difficulty; on the contrary, opposition is magnified.
3. An unkind word, This may be spoken deliberately. The more cool the speaker, the more cutting his speech.
III THE SOIL. The discord is sown "among brethren.
1. A possible soil. One would say that here no quarrels can grow. But, alas! they who should love most can hate with bitterest hatred, or, if no deep dislike be engendered, they may still quarrel most fiercely. The first quarrel was between brethren Cain and Abel. Esau and Jacob, the two Hebrews whom Moses rebuked in Egypt, the nations of Israel and Judah, were all brethren in discord.
2. A fruitful soil. Surely it would be thought discord among brethren cannot last and spread. But experience proves the contrary. Family feuds are deep, bitter, enduring. Church quarrels are most rancorous. Civil war is sanguinary.
IV THE HARVEST. This discord is no slight thing like the breeze that disturbs the lake for one moment and speedily leaves it to resume its normal placidity.
1. It is painful. Pride may conceal the wound, but the sore is not slight. No misery is greater than that of fancily quarrels.
2. It is injurious. It raises evil passions, hinders harmonious action, wastes resources in internecine strife. All men are of one blood, therefore all war is discord, among brethren; and who shall measure its frightful harvest of woe?
3. It is unchristian. The gospel proclaims and enforces brotherhood. It helps us to realize the dream of the psalmist, "Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!". (Psa_133:1) Christ blessed the peacemaker. (Mat_5:9)
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain On v16 These six things doth the Lord hate.
Pro_6:16-19
These six things doth the Lord hate.
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The seven abominable things
A catalogue of evils specially odious to the Infinite One.
I. Haughty bearing. A proud look. Pride is frequently represented in the Bible as an offence to the Holy God. Haughtiness is an abomination, because it implies--
1. Self-ignorance.
2. Unkindness.
3. Irreverence.
II. Verbal falsehood. A lying tongue.
1. Falsehood always implies a wrong heart. A pure heart supplies no motive for falsehood. Vanity, avarice, ambition, cowardice are the parents and patrons of lies.
2. Falsehood always has a bad social tendency. It disappoints expectations, shakes confidence, loosens the very foundations of social order.
III. Heartless cruelty. Hands that shed innocent blood. Cruelty implies--
1. An utter lack of sympathy with Gods creatures.
2. An utter lack of sympathy with Gods mind. He who inflicts pain is out of sympathy both with the universe and with his Maker.
IV. Vicious scheming. A heart that deviseth wicked imaginations. There are some hearts so bad that they are ever inventing some evil thing. Illustrate by antediluvian man.
V. Mischievous eagerness. Feet swift in running to mischief. They not only do mischief, but they do it eagerly, with ready vigilance; they have a greed for it.
VI. Social slander. The slanderer is amongst the greatest of social curses. He robs his fellow-creature of his greatest treasure--his own reputation, and the loving confidence of his friends.
VII. Disturbing strife. And he that soweth discord among brethren. He who by tale-bearing, ill-natured stories, and wicked inventions produces the disruptions of friendship, is abhorrent to that God who desires His creatures to live in love and unity. This subject serves to show three things--
1. The moral hideousness of the world. These seven evils everywhere abound.
2. The immaculate purity of God. He hates these things. Therefore they are foreign to himself.
3. The true mission of the godly--to endeavour to rid the world of the evils offensive to Heaven. (D. Thomas, D. D.)
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv14, 16 He plots evil
He plots evil
"He plans evil" or "He prepares to do evil deeds"
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he always stirs up discord
"he always causes discord" or "he is constantly looking for conflict and escalating it"
Therefore
"For that reason"
his disaster will overtake him
This implies that the disaster is chasing him like a person or an animal, and that it will catch him soon. AT: "his disaster will catch him" (See: Personification)
his disaster
This refers to the disaster that will happen to him, but also the disaster that he himself caused.
in an instant; in a moment
Both mean the same thing, and one or both of them can be replaced by "suddenly" or "very quickly."
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evil
deceive
heart
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv15–16 6:15 Even if wicked people seem to prosper, they…
6:15 Even if wicked people seem to prosper, they will suddenly be punished.
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