arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
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 among brothers.
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arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
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 among brothers.
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A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
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Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood;
A heart that deviseth wicked thoughts, feet that are swift in running to evil;
A false witness that breatheth out lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
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- Psalms 120:2-3 (v17) Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue. What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you…
- Proverbs 12:22 (v17) Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.
- Genesis 6:5 (v18) Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually…
- Psalms 101:5 (v17) I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.
- Proverbs 1:16 (v18) for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.
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- Isaiah 1:15 (v17) When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of…
- Psalms 5:6 (v17) You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.
- Psalms 36:4 (v18) He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.
- Jeremiah 4:14 (v18) Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?
- Romans 3:15 (v18) “Their feet are swift to shed blood.
- Proverbs 19:5 (v19) A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.
- Isaiah 59:7 (v18) Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in…
- Zechariah 8:17 (v18) and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate,” says…
- Proverbs 6:14 (v19) in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.
- Proverbs 24:8 (v18) One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.
- Micah 2:1 (v18) 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…
- Deuteronomy 27:25 (v17) ‘Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
- Proverbs 21:4 (v17) A high look and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, is sin.
- Proverbs 26:28 (v17) A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.
- Isaiah 3:9 (v17) The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don’t hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have…
- James 3:18 (v19) Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
- Psalms 27:12 (v19) Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.
- Proverbs 19:9 (v19) A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish.
- Hosea 4:1-2 (v17) Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor…
- Deuteronomy 19:10 (v17) This is so that innocent blood will not be shed in the middle of your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, leaving…
- 2 Kings 24:4 (v17) and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Yahweh would not pardon.
- Psalms 18:27 (v17) For you will save the afflicted people, but the arrogant eyes you will bring down.
- Psalms 31:18 (v17) Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
- Proverbs 14:5 (v17) A truthful witness will not lie, but a false witness pours out lies.
- Isaiah 3:16 (v17) Moreover Yahweh said, “Because the daughters of Zion are arrogant, and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, walking to trip as…
- Isaiah 59:3-7 (v17) For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness. No one…
- John 8:44 (v17) You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand…
- Deuteronomy 19:16-20 (v19) If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing, then both the men, between whom the controversy…
- Proverbs 1:11 (v17) If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lay in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.
- Proverbs 17:7 (v17) Arrogant speech isn’t fitting for a fool, much less do lying lips fit a prince.
- Proverbs 25:18 (v19) A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.
- Proverbs 30:13 (v17) There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up.
- Isaiah 2:11 (v17) The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the arrogance of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.
- James 3:14-16 (v19) But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth. This wisdom is not that…
- Psalms 10:4 (v17) The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.
- Psalms 73:6-8 (v17) Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment. Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the…
- Psalms 131:1 (v17) Yahweh, my heart isn’t arrogant, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.
- Proverbs 12:17 (v19) He who is truthful testifies honestly, but a false witness lies.
- Proverbs 22:10 (v19) Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.
- Proverbs 26:20 (v19) For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.
- Acts 6:13 (v19) and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.
- 2 Timothy 2:23 (v19) But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.
- 1 Peter 5:5 (v17) Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another;…
- Revelation 22:15 (v17) Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
- 1 Kings 21:10-15 (v19) Set two men, wicked fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, ‘You cursed God and the king!’ Then carry him out, and…
- Proverbs 16:28 (v19) A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.
- 3 John 1:9-10 (v19) I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn’t accept what we say. Therefore if I come, I will call…
- Exodus 20:16 (v19) “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
- Exodus 23:1 (v19) “You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.
- Psalms 35:11 (v19) Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don’t know about.
- Matthew 15:19 (v19) For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
- Matthew 26:59 (v19) Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv18–19 Meaning, the raging affections, which carry a man away…
Meaning, the raging affections, which carry a man away in such sort that he cannot tell what he doeth.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv17–19 Pro 6:17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and…
Pro 6:17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Ver. 17. A proud look.] Heb., Haughty eyes. Men’s hearts usually and chiefly sit and show themselves in oculis, in loculis, in poculis, in their eyes, purses, and cups. The Latins speaking of an arrogant disdainful person say, that he doth supercilium attollere, look loftily. {a} Odi fastum istius Ecclesiae, said Basil; {b} I hate the proud stateliness of that Western Church: the Church of Rome he means, which even in those purer times began to look big, and despise all others in comparison of itself. {c} This he somewhere calls οφρυς δυτικη, the Western eyebrow, which occasioned at length that lamentable separation of the Eastern or Greek Church from communion with the Latin: the other four patriarchs dividing themselves from the Bishop of Rome, and at their parting, using these or the like words, - "Thy greatness we know, thy covetousness we cannot satisfy; thine intolerable insolence we can no longer endure, live to thyself," &c. {d} God himself "resists" a proud person in a special manner, {1Pe 5:5} and that "afar off"; {Psa 138:6} he cannot abide the sight of him, looks aloof at him. For whereas all other vices fly from God, saith Boethius, pride lets fly at him. {e} No wonder therefore though his soul abhor it, when it "buds especially," {Eze 7:10} and "testifies to a man’s face," {Hos 7:10} breaking forth as the masterpock of the soul in big swelling words, bubbles of vanity, {2Pe 2:18} proud gait, ridiculous gestures, garish attire, lofty and haughty looks, that hate of heaven and gate to hell. David could not endure it in any of his. {Psa 101:5} No more could Queen Elizabeth in the greatest favourite about her. Dissension once falling out between her and Essex about a fit man for government of Ireland, he forgetting himself, and neglecting his duty, uncivilly turneth his back, as it were in contempt, with a scornful look. She waxing impatient, gave him a cuff on the ear, bidding him begone with a vengeance, &c. {f} For avoiding of all discontent and distempers this way occasioned, it were to be wished that men would first get humble hearts, - the apostle makes humble mindedness the first virtue, {Eph 4:2} as here a proud look is made the first vice, the master root, - and then, that they would enter into a covenant, as Job did, with his own eyes at least; {Job 31:1} such a covenant as was once made at a meeting of the Borderers in the marches between England and Scotland: security was given and confirmed on both sides by oath, according to custom, and proclamation made, saith mine author, {g} that no man should harm other by word, deed, or look.
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A lying tongue.] Heb., A tongue of lying - viz., that hath learnt the trade, and can do it artificially. "A friar, a liar," was the old proverb here, passing for current of that evil generation, those loud and lewd liars. "The proud have forged lies against me"; {Psa 119:69} - Assunt mendacium mendacio, so the Hebrew hath it; they sew one lie to another, "until their iniquity be found to be hateful." {Psa 36:2} "A righteous man" - how much more the righteous God! - "hateth lying; but a wicked man" - for his lying - "is loathsome" (Heb., stinketh), "and cometh to shame." {Pro 13:5} Pilate, for instance, - of whom Egesippus saith that he was Vir nequam et parvi faciens mendacium, a naughty man, and that made light of a lie. It may seem so by that scornful question of his What is truth? {Joh 18:38} Tacitus also is by Tertullian said to be mendaciorum loquacissimus. Where he speaks of Christians, he writes so many lines, so many lies. Liars pervert the end for which God created speech, which was, to give light to the notions of the mind. Hence φωνη, quasi φως του νου.
And hands that shed innocent blood.] This is fitly subjoined and set after a lying tongue, because bloodshed is oft occasioned by lying.
“ Nil est audacius illis
Deprensis: iram atque animos ex crimine sumunt. ”
- Juvenal.
Ruffians revenge the lie given them with a stab. Persecutors, as in the French massacre, give out that Christians are the worst of men, not fit to live for their notorious enormities, and therefore not to be pitied if taken from the earth. Those that kill a dog, saith the French proverb, make the world believe he was mad first. So they always belied the Church, and traduced her to the world, and then persecuted her; first "took away her veil," and then "wounded her,." {Son 5:7} The devil was first a slanderer and liar, and then a murderer. He cannot murder without he slander first. But "God will destroy them that speak lies; the Lord will abhor the bloody and deceitful man." {Psa 5:6}
{a} Profecto oculis animus inhabitat - Plin.
{b} Ep. ad Evagr.
{c} Quid verum sit neque sciunt, nequc sustinent discerere. - Ibid.
{d} Dr Field, Of the Church. Gerson. Carleton.
{e} Sola superbia se Deo opponit.
{f} Camden’s Elisab. 494.
{g} Ibid., 279.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv17–19 A proud look; pride of heart, which commonly discovers…
A proud look; pride of heart, which commonly discovers itself by a man’s looks and gestures. See Psa 101:5; 131:1; Pro 30:13.
A lying tongue; he that accustometh himself to lying and deceit in his common conversation.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv17–19 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations,.... Or, "thoughts of…
An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations,.... Or, "thoughts of wickedness" (e); which are framed and formed in the heart: and this being the source and fountain of all wickedness, is placed in the midst of these hateful and abominable things; See Gill on Pro 6:14; evil thoughts and designs, both against God and men, are intended, which are forged and fabricated in the wicked heart of man; and may respect the depths of Satan in the antichristian beast of Rome, Rev 2:24;
feet that be swift in running to mischief; to commit all manner of sin with greediness, especially murder; see Pro 1:16.
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(e) "cogitationes iniquitatis", Montanus; "cogitationes vanitatis", Cocceius.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On v18 Deviseth - He whose practice it is to contrive…
Deviseth - He whose practice it is to contrive wickedness. Swift - Such as greedily execute their wicked designs.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On vv17, 19 proud look--literally, "eyes of loftiness" (Psa 131:1). Eyes, tongue,…
proud look--literally, "eyes of loftiness" (Psa 131:1). Eyes, tongue, &c., for persons.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv17, 19 17. A proud look] Rather, haughty eyes, A.V. margin,…
17. A proud look] Rather, haughty eyes, A.V. margin, R.V. text. Thus the enumeration in the Heb. of the parts of the body: ‘eyes,’ ‘tongue,’ ‘hands,’ ‘heart,’ ‘feet’ is preserved.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv17–18 (17) A proud look.—Hateful to God, because rendering men…
(17) A proud look.—Hateful to God, because rendering men unfit to receive grace. Till they acknowledge their weakness, they will not seek for His strength, and without it they can make no progress in holiness. (Comp. 1Pe_5:5, and Christ’s commendation of the “poor in spirit,” Mat_5:3.)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv17–19 The enumeration begins with pride. A proud look (Hebrew,…
The enumeration begins with pride. A proud look (Hebrew, eynayim ramoth); literally, haughty or lofty eyes, as in the margin; Vulgate, oculos sublimes; LXX, ofyalmo . It is not merely the look which is meant, but the temper of mind which the look expresses (Wardlaw). The lofty look is the indication of the swelling pride which fills the heart, the mentis elatae tumor, the supreme disdain, grande supercilium, for everything and everybody. Pride is put first, because it is at the bottom of all disobedience and rebellion against God"s laws. It is the very opposite of humility, which the apostle, in Eph_4:2, mentions as the basis, as it were, of all the virtues. All pride is intended, and the face of the Lord is against this pride. He "resisteth the proud;" he "knoweth them afar off;" he "hath respect unto the lowly;" he "will bring down high looks"; (Psa_18:27) he judgeth those that are high. (Job_21:22) It is against this spirit that Job prays Jehovah "to behold every one that is proud, and abase him," and "to look upon every one that is proud, and bring him low". (Job_40:11, Job_40:12) The next thing in the enumeration is a lying tongue. Lying is hateful to God, because he is the God of truth. In a concise form the expression, "a lying tongue," represents what has been already said in vers. 12 and 13 of "the wicked man" who "walks with a froward mouth," and whose conduct is made up of deceit. Lying is the wilful perversion of truth, not only by speech, but by any means whatever whereby a false impression is conveyed to the mind. The liar "sticks not at any lies, flatteries, or calumnies" (Patrick). Lying is elsewhere denounced as the subject which excites the Divine displeasure; (see Psa_5:6 Psa_120:3, 4 Hos_4:1-3 Rev_21:8, Rev_21:27) and in the early Christian Church, in the ease of Ananias and Sapphira, it was punished with death. On the subject of lying, see St. Augustine, "Enchiridion," 100: 18., wherein he says, "Mihi autem videtur peccatum quidem esse omne mendacium." Every lie is a sin. The third thing is hands that shed innocent blood, i.e. a murderous and cruel disposition, which, rather than have its plans frustrated, will imbue the hands with innocent blood, i.e. the blood of those who have done it no injury. The Divine command is, "Thou shall do no murder," and those who break it will find, even if they escape man, that the Lord is "the avenger of blood," and that he "maketh inquisition" for it. (cf. ch. 1 and 2, and Isa_59:7, which bear a close resemblance to this passage) That the shedding of innocent blood cues for vengeance, and pulls down God"s heavy judgments on the murderer, appears in the ease of Cain and Abel (Muffet).
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v17 Connecting Statement:
Connecting Statement:
This is the list of things that Yahweh hates that was introduced in Proverbs 6:16.
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eyes ... tongue ... hands ... heart ... feet
All of these body parts refer to a whole person. You can translate each of these with "people." (See: Synecdoche)
shed the blood of
"kill" or "murder"
wicked schemes
"evil plans"
breathes out lies
This figure of speech uses "breathes" to refer to lying constantly. AT: "constantly lies" (See: Idiom)
discord
See how you translated this in Proverbs 6:14.
one who sows discord
This figure of speech is using "sows" to refer to causing or bringing about discord. AT: "a person who causes discord" (See: Metaphor)
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proud
blood
innocent
heart
evil
testimony
plant
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v19 6:19 A false witness perverts the truth in court…
6:19 A false witness perverts the truth in court or in everyday conversation.
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