Proverbs 6:12-19

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," repeated in Proverbs 6:19 from Proverbs 6:14, helps to identify the worthless person as being the subject throughout, and a closer examination exhibits the connection. Would you recognise the worthless man? Here is his description, Proverbs 6:12. Would you understand his end? Here is his destiny, Proverbs 6:15. Would you know what God, the Judge of all, sees in him to hate and punish? Here are the six, yea seven things that undo him, Proverbs 6:16. The connection is well worked out by Mr Horton, The Book of Proverbs, pp. 84 91.