Proverbs 16:30

He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass. HE SHUTTETH HIS EYES TO DEVISE FROWARD THINGS. Shutting the eyes is the sign of profound meditation, the mind being drawn off from external objects to internal meditation. Others explain the Hebrew here, He winketh his eyes, to intimate to his accomplice a scheme for entrapping some innocent person present (). MOVING HIS LIPS HE BRINGETH EVIL TO PASS. "Moving his lips" - namely, in silent mental soliloquy as he plans his scheme. Maurer, after the Vulgate, takes it, biting - i:e., compressing his lips in inward meditation. So in sense the Syriac....

Verse Proverbs 16:30. _HE SHUTTETH HIS EYES TO DEVISE, C._] He _meditates_ _deeply_ upon ways and means to commit sin. He shuts his eyes that he may shut out all other ideas, that his whole soul may be in this....

The four verses speak of the same thing, and the well-known opprobrious name, the “man of Belial,” stands at the head as stigmatizing the man who delights in causing the mischief of which they treat. DIGGETH UP EVIL - i. e., Digs an evil pit for others to fall into. Compare Psalms 7:15. Proverbs 16:30 The physiognomy of the man of Belial, the half-closed eyes that never look you straight in the face, the restlessness or cunning of which biting the lips is the surest indication. Compare Proverbs 6:13....

EXPOSITION PROVERBS 16:1 These are specially religions maxims, and they all contain the name Jehovah. PROVERBS 16:1 The Authorized Version makes one sentence of this verse without any contrast or antithesis. This is plainly wrong, there being intended a contrast between the thought of the heart and the well ordered speech. It is better translated, _The plans of the heart are man_'_s_:_ but the answer of the tongue is from Jehovah. _Men make plans, arrange speeches, muster arguments, in the mind; but to put these into proper, persuasive words is a gift of God. "Our sufficiency is of God" (2 Corinthians 3:5). In the case of

HE SHUTTETH HIS EYES TO DEVISE FROWARD THINGS,.... Or "perverse" or "contrary things" r; he shuts his eyes, that his thoughts might not be disturbed and distracted by visible objects, but might be more free and composed, and intent upon the things he is meditating and devising; or he shuts his eyes against light, against Scripture evidence, which he does not care to come to, lest his principles and practices should be reproved; he shuts his eyes, and will not look into the Scriptures, that he may form and devise schemes of doctrine and worship contrary to them. Some render it, he winks with his eyes, as in Proverbs 6:13; so the Targum; he gives the hint thereby to his companions, when is the proper time to circumvent an innocent person, and to put in execution the scheme he had devised; MOVING HIS LIPS HE BRINGETH EVIL TO PASS; either as persons in deep thought used to d

CHAPTER 16 IN THE LIGHT OF THE LORD The name Jehovah (LORD) appears eleven times in this chapter of Proverbs. The Lord has the final word, for to man belong the preparations (or plans) of the heart; but from the LORD is the answer of the tongue. It is the same thought as in our English proverb--“Man proposes--God disposes.” Man loves to justify himself, his ways are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits; He is the judge of ways and motives. Our works are to be committed (literal: rolled upon) unto the LORD, then establishment and blessing will follow. It is strange that these three verses were omitted in the Septuagint version of the Old Testament. The LORD hath made all things for Himself, yea, even the wicked for the day of evil Proverbs 16:4. Much error has been taught in connection with this verse. Some have taught that God made some wicked. It is not said

PROVERBS 16. The special feature is a group of aphorisms (Proverbs 16:10) relating to kings. The sentiments seem rather to reflect the picture of the ideal king than to indicate any particular period. The metaphors employed and the character depicted suggest a parallel with the ideal king of Psalms 72. PROVERBS 16:4. The lit. rendering of Proverbs 16:4 a is Yahweh has made every work for its answer_ i.e._ the nexus of cause and effect seen in the moral government of the world is His work, a kind of prearranged harmony. The supreme instance is the case of the wicked, their answer is the day of evil. We have an assertion of the righteousness of Yahweh's government rather than of their predestinati

_shutteth_ Or, _fixeth_, or _setteth firmly_, στηρίζων, LXX. He closes or fixes his eyes, as though in deep thought, and tightens his lips, as if to keep back words which he could utter. Comp. Proverbs 6:12-14 for a further description of the same character. It is better to regard this verse with R.V. as a separate proverb, HE THAT SHUTTETH HIS EYES, IT IS TO DEVISE FROWARD THINGS: HE THAT COMPRESSETH HIS LIPS BRINGETH EVIL TO PASS, than with A.V. as a continuation of the preceding proverb....

TEXT Proverbs 16:23-33 23. The heart of the wise instructeth his mouth, And addeth learning to his lips. 24. Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. 25. There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, But the end thereof are the ways of death. 26. The appetite of the laboring man laboreth for him; For his mouth urgeth him thereto. 27. A worthless man deviseth mischief; And in his lips there is as a scorching fire. 28. A perverse man scattereth abroad strife; And a whisperer separateth chief friends. 29. A man of violence enticeth his neighbor, And leadeth him in a way that is not good. 30. He that shutteth his eyes, it is to devise perverse things: He that compresseth his lips bringeth evil to pass.

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