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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Proverbs 3:32

The froward; or, perverse, who walketh in crooked or sinful paths, as the oppressor last mentioned; opposed to the upright man, who is called right or straight, as Deuteronomy 32:4 Proverbs 29:27. Is abomination to the Lord; God hates him, and therefore sooner or later he must needs be extremely and eternally miserable. His secret is with the righteous; they are God's friends and favourites, to whom he familiarly imparts, as men use to do to their friends, his mind and counsels, or his secret favours and comforts, to which other men are strangers. Compare Psalms 25:14 1 Thessalonians 15:15 Revelation 2:17.

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