Proverbs 6:14

Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord. FROWARDNESS (IS) IN HIS HEART, HE DEVISETH MISCHIEF CONTINUALLY; HE SOWETH (LITERALLY, CASTETH FORTH) DISCORD - the Hebrew plural, 'frowardnesses.' His heart is so full of them that he cannot help giving vent to them by gestures and words (cf. the figure of a baker and his oven, Hosea 7:6). The Hebrew word for "deviseth" [ choreesh (H2790)] is from a root meaning to plow; so that the metaphor is the same as in "soweth." As the agriculturist applies himself wholly to the plowing and sowing of his land, so the froward gives himself wholly to iniquity, seeking his harvest of gain or of enjoyment of malignity in traducing and lying, or in praising with words, while all the time traducing by signs....

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. His ruin shall come without warning, and without relief. Here is a list of things hateful to God. Those sins are in a special manner provoking to God, which are hurtful to the comfort of human life. These things which God hates, we must hate in ourselves; it is nothing to hate them in others. Let us shun all such practices, and watch and pray against them; and avoid, with marked disapproval, all who are guilty of them, whatever may be their rank....

Verse Proverbs 6:14. _HE DEVISETH MISCHIEF_] He plots schemes and plans to bring it to pass. _HE SOWETH DISCORD._] Between men and their wives, by seducing the latter from their fidelity. See the preceding quotation....

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 (Proverbs 6:6); (3) malice (Proverbs 6:12); and (4) adultery (Proverbs 6:20 to the end). The continuity of the subject treated of in the preceding chapter appears to be somewhat abruptly interrupted to make way for the insertion of three

FROWARDNESS [IS] IN HIS HEART,.... Or perverse things; evil habits and principles of sin; all manner of wickedness, errors and heresies; things contrary to right reason, repugnant to the will and law of God, and the reverse of sound doctrine; all evil thoughts and evil things; see Matthew 15:19; HE DEVISETH MISCHIEF CONTINUALLY; against his neighbours, and especially against good men; he is continually planning schemes, contriving methods, ways, and means, how to disturb, distress, and ruin men; being a true child of Belial, or of the devil, his heart is the forge where he is continually framing wickedness in one shape or another; and the ground which he is always ploughing up and labouring at to bring forth sin and wickedness, and with which it is fruitful; HE SOWETH DISCORD; or "strifes" z: the Syriac version adds, "between two"; which Jarchi inter

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 (Proverbs 6:20) Proverbs 6:1. These are instructions concerning contracts, in being surety for a neighbor and the danger connected with it. Proverbs 6:6. The sluggard is commanded to go to the ant for a lesson. (See also...

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, Proverbs 6:16 against seven sins. Then the subject of sexual vice is continued from Proverbs 5. Proverbs 6:1 obviously breaks the connexion, and was probably inserted after the compilation of Proverbs 6:1....

FROWARDNESS. Deceitfulness. See note on Proverbs 2:12. The same word as in Proverbs 2:12; Proverbs 2:14; Proverbs 8:13; Proverbs 10:31; Proverbs 10:32; Proverbs 16:28; Proverbs 16:30. Not the same as elsewhere in Proverbs. SOWETH. casteth forth [as seed]....

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," repeated in Proverbs 6:19 from Proverbs 6:14, helps to identify the worthless person as being the subject throughout, and a closer examination exhibits the connection. Would you recognise the worthless man? Here is his description, Proverbs 6:12. Would you understand his end? Here is his destiny,...

FROWARDNESS IS IN HIS HEART, &C.— _Pravo corde architectatur malum,_ as one translation has it: he does not do mischief by chance or negligently, but deliberates how he may do it with most success; he builds it commodiously and speciously to the eye, that it may invite men to inhabit it: there is no industry nor art wanting to make it prosper, and yield a good harvest....