Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Proverbs 6:14
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.
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.
Verse Proverbs 6:14. _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 pre...
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 ...
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,...
FROWARDNESS. Deceitfulness. See note on Proverbs 2:12. The same word as in Proverbs 2:12; Proverbs 2:14; Proverbs 8:13;...
_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 ἐπ...
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...
FROWARDNESS IS IN HIS HEART, &C.— _Pravo corde architectatur malum,_ as one translation has it: he does not do mischief by chance or negligently, but deliberates how he may do it with most success; he...
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...
Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord. FROWARDNESS (IS) IN HIS HEART, HE DEVISETH MISCHIEF CONTINUALLY; HE SOWETH (LITERALLY, CASTETH FORTH) DISCORD - the...
6:14 soweth (k-13) Lit. 'sendeth out' -- intensive -- so ver. 19, ch. 16.28....
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...
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...
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....
תַּֽהְפֻּכֹ֨ות ׀ בְּ לִבֹּ֗ו חֹרֵ֣שׁ רָ֣ע בְּ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
FROWARDNESS [IS] IN HIS HEART,.... Or perverse things; evil habits and principles of sin; all manner of wickedness, errors and heresies; things contrary to right reason, repugnant to the will and law...
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 w...
_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...
frowardness is in his heart, malicious plans of every description, HE DEVISETH MISCHIEF CONTINUALLY, in agreement with his wicked nature; HE SOWETH DISCORD, throwing out matters of dispute, stirring u...
WARNING AGAINST FOOLISH SURETYSHIP, IDLENESS, AND MALICE...
SOWETH: _ Heb._ casteth forth...
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...
Proverbs 6:14 Perversity H8419 heart H3820 devises H2790 (H8802) evil H7451 continually H6256 sows H7971 (H8762) d
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
CRITICAL NOTES,— Proverbs 6:12. A naughty person, “a worthless man.” PROVERBS 6:13. TEACHETH, “motions.” PROVERBS 6:14. FROWARDNESS, “perverseness.”...
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 ...
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...
Ezekiel 11:2; Galatians 6:7; Galatians 6:8; Hosea 8:7; Isaiah 32:7;...