Proverbs 6:13

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 designs. Comp. Proverbs 16:30. Shuffleth, R.V. marg., is a rendering adopted by many good scholars, σημαίνει, LXX.

teacheth This is retained in R.V. marg. (διδάσκει, LXX.), but giveth signs, R.V. text, is preferable.

Attention has been called to the striking parallel of the description in the Tarentilla of the Latin poet Nævius: "alium tenet, alii adnictat, alibi manus est, alii percellit pedem."