Proverbs 6:16

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 (Hebrew text) reads, 'abominable things;' but the Qeri' reads as the English version. As to the phrase "six ... and seven" to imply an accumulation, cf. note, . Solomon passes from the description of the froward man (Proverbs 6:12) to setting forth the many sins which accumulate themselves in him, and which bring on him sudden and irremediable calamity. He fixes on those sins which are most prejudicial to one's neighbour; as it is of these that the context is speaking....

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 6:16. _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 tells _truth_. 3. _Hands that shed innocent blood_, whether by murder or by battery. 4. _A heart that deviseth wicked imaginations_ - the heart that _fabricates_ such, lays the foundation, builds upon it, and completes the superstructure of _iniquity_. 5. _Feet that be swift in_ _running to mischief_ - he who works iniquity with greediness. 6. _A_ _false witness that speaketh lies_ - one who, even on his oath before a court of justice, tells any thing but the truth. _SEVEN_ ARE _AN ABOMINATION UNTO HIM_] נפשו _naphsho_, "to his soul." Th

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 recognized Hebrew form of climax (see Proverbs 30:15, Proverbs 30:18, Proverbs 30:24; Amos 1:1; Amos 2; J

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

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, and indeed more so; as sins against the first table, which more immediately strike at his being, horror, and glory; these being such as are against the second table, but are mentioned, as more especially appearing in the character of the above person; and must be hateful to God, as contrary to his nature, will, and law; YEA, SEVEN [ARE] AN ABOMINATION UNTO HIM; or, "the abomination of his soul" c; what his soul abhors, or he abhors from his very heart: meaning not seven others, but one more along with the six, which make seven; a like way of speaking, see in Proverbs 30:15. Nor is the word "abomination" to be restrained to the "seventh", or "hatred" to the "sixth"; but t

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....

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. See note on Proverbs 3:32. UNTO HIM. unto His soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13....

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,...