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Verse Proverbs 6:13. _HE WINKETH WITH HIS EYES, HE SPEAKETH WITH HIS
FEET,_ _HE TEACHETH WITH HIS FINGERS_] These things seem to be spoken
of debauchees; and the following quotation from Ovid, Amor. l...
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CHAPTER 6
_ 1. The surety (Proverbs 6:1)_
2. The sluggard (Proverbs 6:6)
3. The naughty, good-for-nothing person (Proverbs 6:12)
4. The strange woman ...
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A section totally dissimilar from the rest of this division of Pr. It
consists of four short subsections
Proverbs 6:1 against suretyship, Proverbs 6:6 against sloth, Proverbs
6:12 against talebearing,...
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_winketh_ Comp. Proverbs 10:10; Psalms 35:19.
_speaketh_ Not only the tongue (Proverbs 6:12), but the eye, the foot
and the hand are used to make false suggestions, and to further his
deceitful design...
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Thirteenth Address. Chap. 6. Proverbs 6:12. _The Worthless Person_
This short section might seem at first sight to break itself into two
(Proverbs 6:12). But the note of character, "he soweth discord...
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HE WINKETH— It is a remark of St. Ambrose, that the mein and gesture
of the body are an image of the mind; and he was so delicate upon this
subject, that he would not ordain the son of one of his part...
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TEXT Proverbs 6:12-22
12.
A worthless person, a man of iniquity,
Is he that walketh with a perverse mouth;
13.
That winketh with his eyes, that speaketh with his feet,
That maketh signs with his...
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He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with
his fingers;
HE WINKETH WITH HIS EYES, HE SPEAKETH WITH HIS FEET, HE TEACHETH WITH
HIS FINGERS. He makes secret signs with all...
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DISSUASIVES FROM HURTFUL THINGS
Proverbs 6:1 are inserted here from some other collection, and contain
warnings against suretyships (1-5), sloth (6-11), falseness (12-15),
evils which the Lordhates (1...
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Cp. the Arab's prayer: 'O God, pardon us the culpable winking of the
eyes.' Here the winking, etc., are signals to confederates....
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 6
V1 My son, follow this advice when you make a mistake.
Perhaps you promised to pay a neighbour’s debt....
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Sometimes, an evil person is easy to identify. At other times, we must
be careful. 2 Thessalonians 2:7 mentions a ‘secret’ evil power.
The evil man in verses 12-15 is dangerous because his evil plan i...
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HE WINKETH WITH HIS EYES... — A picture, taken from the life, of a
malicious tattler and scandalmonger, who fills out his lying tale with
winks and signs, whereby even more is suggested than he says,...
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קֹרֵ֣ץ _בְּ֭_†_עֵינָיו_† מֹלֵ֣ל
_בְּ_†_רַגְלָ֑יו_† מֹ֝רֶ֗ה...
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CHAPTER 7
CERTAIN EXAMPLES OF THE BINDING CHARACTER OF OUR OWN ACTIONS
"The surety the sluggard and the worthless person." Proverbs 6:1;
Proverbs 6:6; Proverbs 6:12
FROM the solemn principle announc...
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AVOID SURETYSHIP AND SLOTH
Proverbs 6:1
A young man, being entreated by his friend to go bond for him,
consents, in an easy-going way to become his surety. He promises to be
responsible for the other...
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The parental exhortations are continued. In this section they are
directed against suretyship, indolence, the evil man, and certain
specific things which Jehovah hates. The warnings against becoming
s...
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He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he (g) teacheth
with his fingers;
(g) Thus all his gesture tends to wickedness,...
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_Finger. These signs imply haughtiness, &c., Psalm xxxiv. 19., and
Isaias lviii. 9. The posture indicates the interior sentiments, (St.
Ambrose, off. i. 18.) insomuch, that St. Ambrose would not recei...
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A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. He
winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his
fingers; Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief
conti...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 9.
There are two very distinct parts in this book. The first nine Chapter
s, which give the great general principles; and the proverbs, properly
so...
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HE WINKETH WITH HIS EYES,.... Not through natural infirmity, but
purposely and with design; with one of his eyes, as Aben Ezra, as is
usual with such persons: it is the air and gesture of a sneering a...
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He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with
his fingers;
Ver. 13. _He winketh with his eyes._] He is restless in evil, and
with his odd tricks and gesticulations seeks to sp...
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_A naughty person_ Hebrew, _a man of Belial, a wicked man_, whose
continual practice it is, in one way or other, to work wickedness;
_walketh with a froward mouth_ Makes it his business, by lies; or
f...
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WARNING AGAINST FOOLISH SURETYSHIP, IDLENESS, AND MALICE...
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He winketh with his eyes, as a signal to his companions to join him in
some act of malice, HE SPEAKETH WITH HIS FEET, giving signs with a
similar intention, HE TEACHETH WITH HIS FINGERS, hinting with...
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12-19 If the slothful are to be condemned, who do nothing, much more
those that do all the ill they can. Observe how such a man is
described. He says and does every thing artfully, and with design. H...
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Proverbs 6:13 winks H7169 (H8802) eyes H5869 shuffles H4448 (H8802)
feet H7272 points H3384 (H8688) fingers...
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THE WORTHLESS MAN (PROVERBS 6:12).
This first part, defining the worthless man, may be seen chiastically,
A A worthless person, a man of iniquity (Proverbs 6:12 a).
B Is he who walks with a perverse...
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THE WORTHLESS MAN (PROVERBS 6:12).
We now come to the third person in the triumvirate. The first one
committed as a surety what he did not have. He was naive. The second
was too lazy to do anything to...
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CONTENTS: Caution against rash suretiship, slothfulness, forwardness,
and whoredom.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son.
CONCLUSION: Suretiship is to be avoided, because by it poverty and
ruin are ofte...
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Proverbs 6:1. _If thou be surety for thy friend._ If charity has
gained an ascendancy over the judgment, prepare to perform thy
covenant. To aid a friend in poverty is a generous deed, it is lending
w...
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_He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with
his fingers._
SECRET WAYS OF SPEAKING
The wicked man not only his abuseth big mouth, but also his eyes,
feet, and fingers. When...
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THE RIGHT KIND OF FEET
He speaketh with his feet. Proverbs 6:13.
Feet was I to the lame. Job 29:15.
Today we are going to think about the right kind of feet; and this
time we have two texts, one i...
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 6:12 A WORTHLESS PERSON, A WICKED MAN
describes someone who lacks any desire to act righteously. DEVISES. A
worthless person’s communication comes from a pervert
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CRITICAL NOTES,—
Proverbs 6:12. A naughty person, “a worthless man.”
PROVERBS 6:13. TEACHETH, “motions.”
PROVERBS 6:14. FROWARDNESS, “perverseness.”...
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 6:1
The sixth chapter embraces four distinct discourses, each of which is
a warning. The subjects treated of are
(1) suretyship (Proverbs 6:1);
(2) sloth ...
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Now let us turn to Proverbs, chapter 6. The first part of the Proverbs
is exhortation to my son. It's just good fatherly advice to sons. And
chapter 6 continues in these exhortations that are opened b...
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Job 15:12; Proverbs 10:10; Proverbs 5:6; Psalms 35:19...