Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Proverbs 6:16
A proud look] lit. 'haughty eyes' (RV): see our word 'supercilious,' from supercilium= the eyebrow.
A proud look] lit. 'haughty eyes' (RV): see our word 'supercilious,' from supercilium= the eyebrow.
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...
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...
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,...
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....
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...
_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...
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...
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...
6:16 him. (l-13) Lit. 'of his soul.'...
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....
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...
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...
שֶׁשׁ ־הֵ֭נָּה שָׂנֵ֣א יְהוָ֑ה וְ֝ שֶׁ֗בַע _תֹּועֲבַ֥ת_†
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
_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...
These six things doth the Lord hate, yea, seven are an abomination unto Him, He regards them all with loathing and abhorrence:...
WARNING AGAINST FOOLISH SURETYSHIP, IDLENESS, AND MALICE...
UNTO HIM: _ Heb._ of his soul...
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...
HATE, to wit, above many other sins, which have a worse name in the world....
Proverbs 6:16 six H8337 LORD H3068 hates H8130 (H8804) seven H7651 abomination H8441 Him H5315 six -...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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
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...
Amos 1:11; Amos 1:3; Amos 1:6; Amos 1:9; Amos 2:1;...
Hate — Above many other sins which have a worse name in the world....