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Proverbs 6:17

‘Proud eyes’. The poet is describing someone who is proud. He mentions ‘eyes’, because we see other people with our eyes. The evil man thinks that he is greater than other people. Perhaps he even thinks that he is greater than God. God opposes proud people. God wants us to be humble.

‘Lies’ and ‘murder’ are in the 10 commands. God gave this law to Moses. See Deuteronomy 4.

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See also Proverbs 6:17 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    A new section, but not a new subject. The closing words, “he that soweth discord” (Proverbs 6:19, compare Proverbs 6:14), lead us to identify the sketch as taken from the same character. With the reco...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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,...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    A PROUD LOOK. eyes lifted up. Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Part), App-6, put for pride, which is indicated by this act. This is the first, and the others proceed downward; "eyes", "tongue", "hand...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _A proud look_ Rather, HAUGHTY EYES, A.V. margin, R.V. text. Thus the enumeration in the Heb. of the parts of the body: -eyes," -tongue," -hands," -heart," -feet" is preserved....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, A PROUD LOOK, A LYING TONGUE, AND HANDS THAT SHED INNOCENT BLOOD. The "proud look" - literally, 'haughty eyes' (; ; ) - stands firs...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    A PROUD LOOK. — Hateful to God, because rendering men unfit to receive grace. Till they acknowledge their weakness, they will not seek for His strength, and without it they can make no progress in hol...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    עֵינַ֣יִם רָ֭מֹות לְשֹׁ֣ון שָׁ֑קֶר וְ֝ יָדַ֗יִם...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    A PROUD LOOK,.... Or, "eyes elated" d; scorning to look down upon others; or looking upon them with disdain; or reckoning them as unworthy to be looked upon, having an high opinion of their own worth...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, Ver. 17. _A proud look._] Heb., Haughty eyes. Men's hearts usually and chiefly sit and show themselves _in oculis, in loculis, in poc...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _These six things_ Generally found in those men of Belial, described in the foregoing verses; _doth the Lord hate_ Namely, above many other sins, which have a worse name in the world; _a proud look_ P...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    a proud look, a haughty and supercilious behavior, a lying tongue, the organ of speech being named here for the false person, AND HANDS THAT SHED INNOCENT BLOOD, Cf Isaiah 59:7,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    WARNING AGAINST FOOLISH SURETYSHIP, IDLENESS, AND MALICE...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    A PROUD LOOK: _ Heb._ haughty eyes...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    A PROUD LOOK; pride of heart, which commonly discovers itself by a man's looks and gestures. See PSALMS 101:5, PSALMS 131:1 PROVERBS 30:13. A LYING TONGUE; he that accustometh himself to lying and dec...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Proverbs 6:17 proud H7311 (H8802) look H5869 lying H8267 tongue H3956 Hands H3027 shed H8210 (H8802) innocent...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    SEVEN THINGS WHICH YHWH HATES (PROVERBS 6:16). We now have listed seven thing which YHWH hates. The ‘six things -- yes seven' was a technique saying ‘more than six' (double completeness) and emphasisi...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _These six things doth the Lord hate._ THE SEVEN ABOMINABLE THINGS A catalogue of evils specially odious to the Infinite One. I. Haughty bearing. “A proud look.” Pride is frequently represented in...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 6:16 The literary device of naming SIX THINGS... SEVEN indicates that the list is representative rather than exhaustive (compare Proverb

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES,— Proverbs 6:12. A naughty person, “a worthless man.” PROVERBS 6:13. TEACHETH, “motions.” PROVERBS 6:14. FROWARDNESS, “perverseness.”...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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 ...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Peter 5:5; 2 Kings 24:4; Deuteronomy 27:25; Hosea 4:1; Hosea 4:2;...

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