Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Proverbs 21:4
An high look, and a proud heart, [and] the (b) plowing of the wicked, [is] sin.
(b) That is, the thing by which he is guided or which he brings forth as the fruit of his work.
An high look, and a proud heart, [and] the (b) plowing of the wicked, [is] sin.
(b) That is, the thing by which he is guided or which he brings forth as the fruit of his work.
Verse Proverbs 21:4. _A HIGH LOOK_] The evidence of pride, self-conceit, and vanity. _A proud heart_, from which the _high look_, c., come. AND _THE PLOUGHING_] נר _ner, lucerna_, the _lamp_, the pr...
THE PLOWING - The Hebrew word, with a change in its vowel points, may signify either: (1) the “fallow field,” the “tillage” of Proverbs 13:23, or (2) the lamp. According to: (1) the verse would mean...
CHAPTER 21 PERSONAL INSTRUCTIONS AS TO LIFE AND CONDUCT In the proverbs of this chapter the Lord is mentioned five times. “The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: He turne...
PROVERBS 21:1. WATERCOURSES: not the natural brooks and wadys of Palestine, but the artificial irrigation canals of Egypt or Babylonia, which could be diverted in any direction at will. Proverbs 21:4....
AND. Omit this "And". PLOWING: or tillage. See App-74. THE WICKED. lawless ones. Hebrew. _rasha'._ App-44. SIN. Hebrew. _chata'._ App-44. The special word for the sin offering. Render the verse "A l...
_the plowing_ This, which is an admissible rendering, is virtually retained (_the tillage_) in R.V. marg. The haughty bearing, the proud look, the prosperous labours of the wicked are alike condemned...
AND THE PLOUGHING OF THE WICKED— Dr. Grey is for taking the two parts of the verse separately, thus, "A lofty look and a proud heart go generally together; i.e. the countenance shews the disposition o...
CHAPTER 21 TEXT Proverbs 21:1-10 1. The king's heart is in the hand of Jehovah as the water courses: He turneth it whithersoever he will. 2. Every way of a man is right in his own eyes; But Jeho...
An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin. AN HIGH LOOK (HAUGHTINESS OF EYES; PROVERBS 6:17 ; PSALMS 6:4 ; ISAIAH 2:11...
21:4 lamp (m-8) Or 'the tillage,' or 'the prosperity.'...
There is no connexion between the two halves of the v. RM 'The tillage of the wicked is sin,' i.e. the result of his labour is sin....
1. The 'watercourses' (RV) are the artificial irrigation channels of Egypt and Babylon (Isaiah 58:11)....
Evil people are proud. They think that they are more important than other people. And evil people think that they do not need God. Evil people are proud when they look at other people. When they see...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 21 V1 A king is like a canal that God controls. God leads the king in the way that God decides....
THE PLOWING OF THE WICKED. — _i.e._, their work, all they do; for it is not done to please God but themselves; nor carried on in His strength, but in reliance upon their own, and therefore it is “sin,...
רוּם ־עֵ֭ינַיִם וּ רְחַב ־לֵ֑ב נִ֖ר רְשָׁעִ֣י
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Verse Proverbs 21:4. The "lamp" of a man's life is his spirit. Where that is exalted and manifests itself in the high look and the proud heart, there is sin. All of which is to say that for a man to f...
Heart. Or when it is proud, it causes the eyes to appear so too. (Calmet) --- Lamp. Protestants, "ploughing of the wicked is sin." When it is done with a bad motive, out of pride. Hebrew, "the haughti...
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AN HIGH LOOK, AND A PROUD HEART,.... The former is a sign of the latter, and commonly go together, and are both abominable to the Lord; see Psalms 101:5. A man that looks above others, and with disdai...
An high look, and a proud heart, [and] the plowing of the wicked, [is] sin. Ver. 4. _An high look and proud heart._] _See Trapp on "_ Pro 6:17 _"_ And the ploughing of the wicked is sin.] As they pl...
_A high look_ One sign of pride put for all the rest; _and a proud heart_ Pride lurking and reigning in the heart, though it do not discover itself to men by outward actions, but be disguised with a s...
V. 4. AN HIGH LOOK AND A PROUD HEART, literally, "haughtiness of eyes and pompousness of heart," AND THE PLOWING OF THE WICKED, either the light, the prosperity, or the whole business, all that the un...
AN HIGH LOOK: _ Heb._ haughtiness of eyes THE PLOWING OF THE WICKED: Or, the light of the wicked...
AN HIGH LOOK; one gesture or sign of pride put for all the rest, PROVERBS 6:17. A PROUD HEART; pride lurking and reigning in the heart, though it do not discover itself to men by outward actions, but...
Proverbs 21:4 haughty H7312 look H5869 proud H7342 heart H3820 plowing H5215 wicked H7563 sin H2403 An high look - Heb. Haughtiness of e
CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Those who follow after righteousness, shall find righteousness, honor and life. KEY WORD: Counsel (Proverbs 20:5). STRONG VERSES: P...
Proverbs 21:1. _The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord; as the rivers of water, he turneth it whithersoever he will._ The allusion is probably to the water-meads and the ditches in the corn field...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 21:1 Like Proverbs 20:22, this section has three proverbs on divine judgment followed by a fourth proverb that is related but does not explicitly mention the Lord. God
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 21:4. THE PLOUGHING. This word is by most modern commentators translated, as in the marginal references, _light_. It is likewise so rendered in the Septuagint, the Vulgate, a...
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Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Proverbs 21:1-31. Proverbs 21:1-31, Solomon declares: The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will (Prov...
1 Peter 5:5; Isaiah 2:11; Isaiah 2:17; Isaiah 3:16; Luke 18:14;...
The plowing — Even their civil or natural actions, which in themselves are lawful, are made sinful as they are managed by ungodly men, without any regard to the glory of God, which ought to be the end...