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Proverbs 6:16-19

PROVERBS—NOTE ON Proverbs 6:16 The literary device of naming six things... seven indicates that the list is representative rather than exhaustive (compare Proverbs 30:15, Proverbs 30:18, Proverbs 30:21). It also draws particular attention to the final item as the focus of God’s hatred. It is easy to agree that God hates the first six items, but it is also easy to overlook the seventh (one who sows discord), and thus the author surprises the reader.

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See also Proverbs 6:16-19 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Proverbs 6:16. _THESE SIX - DOTH THE LORD HATE_] 1. _A proud look_ - exalted eyes; those who will not condescend to look on the rest of mankind. 2. _A lying tongue_ - he who neither loves nor...

  • 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

    SIX THINGS. Epitomising verses: Proverbs 6:12 (App-10). THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. YEA, SEVEN. Figure of speech _Epanorthosis._ App-6. To imply that the list is not exhausted. ABOMINATION....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _six … seven_ To specify more precisely the traits that go to form the character of the man of Belial, and to lift them into the sphere of God's judgement, that we may make a true estimate of them, th...

  • 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...

  • 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

    These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: THESE SIX THINGS DOTH THE LORD HATE: YEA, SEVEN ARE AN ABOMINATION UNTO HIM - literally, unto his soul. The Khethibh (H...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    6:16 him. (l-13) Lit. 'of his soul.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    A PROUD LOOK] lit. 'haughty eyes' (RV): see our word 'supercilious,' from _supercilium=_ the eyebrow....

  • 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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Verses 16-19 use a different style of poetry. The poet writes a list of things that God opposes. This style is also in Proverbs 30 and in the Book of Amos. The numbers in these lists are not importan...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THESE SIX THINGS DOTH THE LORD HATE... — Rather, _six are the things which He hateth._ It is a sort of climax: — He hates six things, but the seventh worse than all. This numerical form of proverb, to...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    שֶׁשׁ ־הֵ֭נָּה שָׂנֵ֣א יְהוָ֑ה וְ֝ שֶׁ֗בַע _תֹּועֲבַ֥ת_†

  • 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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Detesteth. This expression does not always mean that the last is worse than the former. (Menochius) --- All the six sins are damnable, but the seventh is here, most so, being against charity and unit...

  • 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

    THESE SIX [THINGS] DOTH THE LORD HATE,.... That is, the six following, which are all to be found in a man of Belial, a wicked man before described. There are other things besides these that God hates,...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    These six [things] doth the LORD hate: yea, seven [are] an abomination unto him: Ver. 16. _These six things doth the Lord hate._] That is, He detesteth, damneth, punisheth them in the sluggard, whose...

  • 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

    These six things doth the Lord hate, yea, seven are an abomination unto Him, He regards them all with loathing and abhorrence:...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    UNTO HIM: _ Heb._ of his soul...

  • 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

    HATE, to wit, above many other sins, which have a worse name in the world....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Proverbs 6:16 six H8337 LORD H3068 hates H8130 (H8804) seven H7651 abomination H8441 Him H5315 six -...

  • 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 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

    Amos 1:11; Amos 1:3; Amos 1:6; Amos 1:9; Amos 2:1;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Hate — Above many other sins which have a worse name in the world....

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