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Proverbs 6:18
Today we might say ‘mind’ instead of ‘heart’. God knows our thoughts. He knows our secret plans.
Today we might say ‘mind’ instead of ‘heart’. God knows our thoughts. He knows our secret plans.
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,...
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...
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...
An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, AN HEART THAT DEVISETH WICKED IMAGINATIONS, FEET THAT BE SWIFT IN RUNNING TO MISCHIEF. The heart (not merely e...
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...
FEET THAT BE SWIFT IN RUNNING TO MISCHIEF. — Who do not yield to temptation after a struggle against it, but give themselves up as willing slaves to their lusts. (l)_. Twelfth Discourse:_ — _Against...
לֵ֗ב חֹ֭רֵשׁ מַחְשְׁבֹ֣ות אָ֑וֶן רַגְלַ֥יִם מְ֝מַהֲרֹ֗ות...
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...
An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, (h) feet that be swift in running to mischief, (h) Meaning, the raging affections, which carry a man away in such sort that he cannot tell what he does....
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...
AN HEART THAT DEVISETH WICKED IMAGINATIONS,.... Or, "thoughts of wickedness" e; which are framed and formed in the heart: and this being the source and fountain of all wickedness, is placed in the mid...
An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, Ver. 18. _An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations._] This is the old beldam, the mother of all the foregoing...
_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...
WARNING AGAINST FOOLISH SURETYSHIP, IDLENESS, AND MALICE...
an heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, always planning mischief, FEET THAT BE SWIFT IN RUNNING TO MISCHIEF, unable to restrain their eagerness for every form of wickedness,...
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...
AN HEART THAT DEVISETH WICKED IMAGINATIONS; he whose practice it is to design and contrive wickedness. FEET THAT BE SWIFT IN RUNNING TO MISCHIEF; such as greedily and readily execute their wicked desi...
Proverbs 6:18 heart H3820 devises H2790 (H8802) wicked H205 plans H4284 Feet H7272 swift H4116 (H8764) running...
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...
Genesis 6:5; Isaiah 59:7; Jeremiah 4:14; Micah 2:1; Proverbs 1:16;...
Deviseth — He whose practice it is to contrive wickedness. Swift — Such as greedily execute their wicked designs....