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Proverbs 6:17

A proude loke, a lying tongue, handes that shed innocent blood,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Abomination;   Falsehood;   False Teachers;   Homicide;   Imagination;   Pride;   Sin;   Speaking;   Strife;   Young Men;   Thompson Chain Reference - Humility-Pride;   Pride;   The Topic Concordance - Abomination;   Discord;   Hate;   Heart;   Lying/lies;   Mischief;   Pride/arrogance;   Violence;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Blood;   Lying;   Murder;   Pride;   Sin;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Eye;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Hatred;   Humility;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Lie, Lying;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Death;   Hate, Hatred;   Proverbs, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Look;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Eye;   Games;   Languages of the Old Testament;   Proverbs, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ethics;   Godliness;   Numbers and Numerals;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for January 21;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
arrogant eyes, a lying tongue,hands that shed innocent blood,
Hebrew Names Version
Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, Hands that shed innocent blood;
King James Version
A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
English Standard Version
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
New Century Version
a proud look, a lying tongue, hands that kill innocent people,
New English Translation
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Amplified Bible
A proud look [the attitude that makes one overestimate oneself and discount others], a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood,
New American Standard Bible
Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood,
World English Bible
Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, Hands that shed innocent blood;
Geneva Bible (1587)
The hautie eyes, a lying tongue, and the hands that shed innocent blood,
Legacy Standard Bible
Haughty eyes, a lying tongue,And hands that shed innocent blood,
Berean Standard Bible
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
Contemporary English Version
Those who are too proud or tell lies or murder,
Complete Jewish Bible
a haughty look, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
Darby Translation
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood;
Easy-to-Read Version
eyes that show pride, tongues that tell lies, hands that kill innocent people,
George Lamsa Translation
Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood.
Good News Translation
Lexham English Bible
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Literal Translation
a proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
A proude loke, a dyssemblynge tonge, hades that shed innocent bloude,
American Standard Version
Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood;
Bible in Basic English
Eyes of pride, a false tongue, hands which take life without cause;
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood;
King James Version (1611)
A proude looke, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The eye of the haughty, a tongue unjust, hands shedding the blood of the just;
English Revised Version
Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Hiye iyen, a tunge liere, hondis schedinge out innocent blood,
Update Bible Version
Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood;
Webster's Bible Translation
A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood.
New King James Version
A proud look, A lying tongue, Hands that shed innocent blood,
New Living Translation
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that kill the innocent,
New Life Bible
A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that kill those who are without guilt,
New Revised Standard
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Eyes that are lofty, a tongue that is false, and hands shedding innocent blood;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
Revised Standard Version
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Young's Literal Translation
Eyes high -- tongues false -- And hands shedding innocent blood --
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood,

Contextual Overview

12 An vngodly person, a wicked man, goeth with a frowarde mouth. 13 He winketh with his eyes, he tokeneth with his feete, he teacheth with his fingers. 14 He is euer imagining mischiefe and frowardnes in his heart, and causeth discorde. 15 Therefore shall his destruction come hastyly vpon hym, sodainly shall he be all to broken, and not be healed. 16 These sixe thinges doth the Lorde hate, and the seuenth he vtterly abhorreth: 17 A proude loke, a lying tongue, handes that shed innocent blood, 18 An heart that goeth about wicked imaginations, feete that be swyft in running to mischiefe, 19 A false witnesse that bringeth vp lyes, and hym that soweth discorde among brethren.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

A proud look: Heb. Haughty eyes, Proverbs 30:13, Psalms 10:4, Psalms 18:27, Psalms 73:6-8, Psalms 101:5, Psalms 131:1, Isaiah 2:11, Isaiah 3:9, Isaiah 3:16, 1 Peter 5:5

lying: Proverbs 12:22, Proverbs 14:5, Proverbs 26:28, Psalms 5:6, Psalms 120:2, Psalms 120:3, Hosea 4:1, Hosea 4:2, John 8:44, Revelation 22:15

and hands: Proverbs 1:11, Deuteronomy 27:25, 2 Kings 24:4, Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 59:3-6

Reciprocal: Genesis 37:20 - and let Deuteronomy 19:10 - General Psalms 62:4 - delight Psalms 109:2 - with Psalms 140:11 - an evil speaker Proverbs 13:5 - righteous Proverbs 16:5 - that Proverbs 21:4 - An high look Proverbs 21:24 - haughty Isaiah 2:12 - upon Isaiah 59:7 - feet Isaiah 65:5 - These Jeremiah 22:3 - neither Jeremiah 26:15 - ye shall Jeremiah 43:2 - all the Ephesians 4:25 - putting 2 Timothy 3:2 - proud James 4:6 - God

Cross-References

Genesis 2:7
The Lorde God also dyd shape man, [euen] dust fro of the grounde, & breathed into his nosethrylles the breath of lyfe, and man was a lyuyng soule.
Genesis 6:3
And the Lorde sayde: My spirite shall not alwayes stryue with man, because he is fleshe: yet his dayes shalbe an hundreth and twentie yeres.
Genesis 6:4
But there were Giantes in those dayes in ye earth: yea & after that the sonnes of God came vnto the daughters of me, and hadde begotten chyldren of them, the same became myghtie men of the worlde, and men of renowme.
Genesis 6:7
And the Lorde sayde: I wyll from the vpper face of the earth, destroy man whom I haue created, from man vnto cattell, vnto worme, and vnto foules of the ayre: For it repenteth me that I haue made them.
Genesis 6:12
And God loked vpon the earth, and beholde it was corrupt: for all fleshe had corrupt his way vpon earth.
Genesis 6:13
And God sayd vnto Noah: the ende of all fleshe is come before me, for the earth is fylled with crueltie through them, and beholde I wyl destroy them with the earth.
Genesis 6:14
Make thee an Arke of Pine trees: Habitations shalt thou make in the arke, and shalt pitch it within and with out with pitche.
Genesis 6:20
Of fethered foules also after their kinde, and of all cattell after their kinde: of euery worme of the earth after his kynde, two of euery one shall come vnto thee, to kepe [them] alyue.
Genesis 6:21
And take thou with thee of all meate that is eaten, and thou shalt lay it vp with thee, that it may be meate for thee and them.
Genesis 6:22
Noah therfore dyd according vnto all that God commaunded hym [euen] so dyd he.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

A proud look,.... Or, "eyes elated" d; scorning to look down upon others; or looking upon them with disdain; or reckoning them as unworthy to be looked upon, having an high opinion of their own worth and merit. Pride is the first of the hateful things mentioned; it being the first sin committed, as is probable, the sin of the angels, and of the first man; and is a predominant evil in human nature, and is directly opposite to God and to his nature, and against which he sets himself; for "he resisteth the proud", James 4:6; the pride of the heart shows itself in the eyes, or by the looks of a man; Gersom says, the phrase denotes impudence and haughtiness;

a lying tongue; that is the second of the hateful things; a tongue speaking falsehood, knowingly and willingly, with an intention to deceive others; to hurt the character of a neighbour, or to flatter a friend, is a most detestable evil; it ought to be so to men, it must be so to God, who is a God of truth: nor is there anything in which a man more resembles the devil, who is the father of lies;

and hands that shed innocent blood; human blood; and that of persons who have not been guilty of any capital sin, for which they ought to die by the laws of God or men, and yet shed or poured out as common water; such hands must be defiled, and such men must be hateful to God, they destroying his image, and being like to the devil, who was a murderer from the beginning. These "three" sins are plainly to be seen in the son of Belial, antichrist, who exalts himself above all that is called God, the kings and princes of the earth; he and his followers speak lies in hypocrisy; and is the whore that is drunk with the blood of the saints, 2 Thessalonians 2:4.

d עינים רמות "oculi clati", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 1:1-15; Amos 2:0; Job 5:19), the teacher here enumerates six qualities as detestable, and the seventh as worse than all (seven represents completeness), but all the seven in this instance belong to one man, the man of Belial Proverbs 6:12.


 
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