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Proverbs 21:4
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The lamp that guides the wicked—haughty eyes and an arrogant heart—is sin.
A high look, and a proud heart, The lamp of the wicked, is sin.
An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.
Haughty eyes and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, are sin.
Haughty eyes and a proud heart, The lamp of the wicked, is sin.
Proud looks, proud thoughts, and evil actions are sin.
Haughty and arrogant eyes and a proud heart, The lamp of the wicked [their self-centered pride], is sin [in the eyes of God].
A high look, and a proud heart, The lamp of the wicked, is sin.
A hautie looke, and a proude heart, which is the light of the wicked, is sinne.
Haughty eyes and a proud heart—The fallow ground of the wicked—are sin.
Haughty eyes and a proud heart-the guides of the wicked-are sin.
Evil people are proud and arrogant, but sin is the only crop they produce.
Haughty looks, a proud heart — what the wicked plow is sin.
Lofty eyes, and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, is sin.
Proud looks and proud thoughts are sins. They show a person is evil.
Haughty eyes, a proud heart, and the posterity of the wicked are sinful.
Wicked people are controlled by their conceit and arrogance, and this is sinful.
Haughtiness of the eyes and pride of heart, the lamp of the wicked are sin.
High eyes, a proud heart, and the uncultivated mind of the wicked, is sin.
A presumptuous loke, a proude stomacke, & the lanterne of the vngodly is synne.
A high look, and a proud heart, Even the lamp of the wicked, is sin.
A high look and a heart of pride, *** Three astrics are used as a sign that one or more Hebrew words, necessary to the sense, have been taken out at some time or other. of the evil-doer is sin.
An high looke, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sinne.
An high looke, a proude heart, and the plowing of the vngodly is sinne.
A high-minded man is stout-hearted in his pride; and the lamp of the wicked is sin.
An high look, and a proud heart, even the lamp of the wicked, is sin.
Enhaunsyng of iyen is alargyng of the herte; the lanterne of wickid men is synne.
A high look, and a proud heart, [Even] the lamp of the wicked, is sin.
A high look, and a proud heart, [and] the plowing of the wicked, [is] sin.
Haughty eyes and a proud heart— the agricultural product of the wicked is sin.
A haughty look, a proud heart,And the plowing [fn] of the wicked are sin.
Haughty eyes, a proud heart, and evil actions are all sin.
Eyes lifted high and a proud heart is sin and is the lamp of the sinful.
Haughty eyes and a proud heart— the lamp of the wicked—are sin.
Loftiness of eyes, and ambition of heart - the lamp of the lawless, are sin.
Haughtiness of the eyes is the enlarging of the heart: the lamp of the wicked is sin.
Haughty eyes and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, are sin.
Loftiness of eyes, and breadth of heart, Tillage of the wicked [is] sin.
Arrogance and pride—distinguishing marks in the wicked— are just plain sin.
Haughty eyes and a proud heart, The lamp of the wicked, is sin.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
An high look: Heb. Haughtiness of eyes, Proverbs 6:17, Proverbs 8:13, Proverbs 30:13, Psalms 10:4, Isaiah 2:11, Isaiah 2:17, Isaiah 3:16, Luke 18:14, 1 Peter 5:5
and the: Proverbs 21:27, Proverbs 15:8, Romans 14:23
plowing of the wicked: or, light of the wicked
Reciprocal: Leviticus 11:34 - General 2 Samuel 22:28 - but thine Proverbs 15:9 - The way Ezekiel 16:49 - pride Haggai 2:14 - So is this people Zechariah 14:20 - shall there Luke 21:34 - your hearts Titus 1:15 - but
Cross-References
Wherefore she said unto Abraham: 'Cast out this bondwoman and her son; for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.'
And God said unto Abraham: 'Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah saith unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall seed be called to thee.
And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his host spoke unto Abraham, saying: 'God is with thee in all that thou doest.
Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son; but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.'
And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land; but no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
span data-lang="eng" data-trans="jps" data-ref="deu.12.1" class="versetxt"> These are the statutes and the ordinances, which ye shall observe to do in the land which the LORD, the God of thy fathers, hath given thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth. Ye shall surely destroy all the places, wherein the nations that ye are to dispossess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every leafy tree. And ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods; and ye shall destroy their name out of that place. Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God. But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put His name there, even unto His habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come; and thither ye shall bring your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the offering of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill-offerings, and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock; and there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee. Ye shall not do after all that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes; for ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God giveth thee. But when ye go over the Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God causeth you to inherit, and He giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety; then it shall come to pass that the place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause His name to dwell there, thither shall ye bring all that I command you: your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD. And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and the Levite that is within your gates, forasmuch as he hath no portion nor inheritance with you. Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt-offerings in every place that thou seest; but in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee. Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh within all thy gates, after all the desire of thy soul, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which He hath given thee; the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the gazelle, and as of the hart. Only ye shall not eat the blood; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water. Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thine oil, or the firstlings of thy herd or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill-offerings, nor the offering of thy hand; but thou shalt eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite that is within thy gates; and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thy hand unto. Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon thy land. When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as He hath promised thee, and thou shalt say: 'I will eat flesh', because thy soul desireth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, after all the desire of thy soul. If the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to put His name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat within thy gates, after all the desire of thy soul. Howbeit as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat thereof; the unclean and the clean may eat thereof alike. Only be stedfast in not eating the blood; for the blood is the life; and thou shalt not eat the life with the flesh. Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water. Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD. Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose; and thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the LORD thy God; and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out against the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh. Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the eyes of the LORD thy God. When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest in to dispossess them, and thou dispossessest them, and dwellest in their land; take heed to thyself that thou be not ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying: 'How used these nations to serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.' Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God; for every abomination to the LORD, which He hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters do they burn in the fire to their gods.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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 disdain upon them, shows that pride reigns in him, and swells his mind with a vain opinion of himself; this may be observed in every self-righteous man; the parable of the Pharisee and publican is a comment upon it; sometimes there may be a proud heart under a disguise of humility; but the pride of the heart is often discovered by the look of the eyes. It may be rendered, "the elevation of the eyes, and the enlargement of the heart" p; but not to be understood in a good sense, of the lifting up of the eyes in prayer to God, with faith and fear; nor of the enlargement of the heart with solid knowledge and wisdom, such as Solomon had; but in a bad sense, of the lofty looks and haughtiness of man towards his fellow creatures, and of his unbounded desires after filthy lucre or sinful lusts: the Targum renders it,
"the swelling of the heart,''
with pride and vanity;
[and] the ploughing of the wicked [is] sin; taken literally; not that it is so in itself; for it is a most useful invention, and exceeding beneficial to mankind, and is to be ascribed to God himself; and of this the Heathens are so sensible, that they have a deity to whom they attribute it, and whom they call Ceres q, from ×רש, to plough; it only denotes that all the civil actions of a wicked man, one being put for all, are attended with sin; he sins in all he does. Or, metaphorically, for his schemes, contrivances, and projects, which are the ploughing of his mind; these are all sinful, or tend to that which is so. Some understand this particularly of his high look and proud heart, which are his ploughing and his sin; Ben Melech; and others of his ploughing, or persecuting and oppressing, the poor. The word is sometimes used for a lamp or light, and is so rendered here by some, "the light of the wicked [is] sin" r; their outward happiness and prosperity leads them into sin, involves them in guilt, and so brings them to ruin and destruction: and this way go the Targum: Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions.
p ר×× ×¢×× ×× ×ר×× ×× "elatio oculorum et latitudo cordis", Piscator, Michaelis, Cocceius, Schultens. q "Prima Ceres ferro mortales vertere terram instituit", Virgil. Georgic. l. 1. r × ×¨ רשע×× "Incerna impiorum", V. L. Mercerus, Gejerus, Cocceius, Michaelis, Schultens.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The plowing - The Hebrew word, with a change in its vowel points, may signify either:
(1) the âfallow field,â the âtillageâ of Proverbs 13:23, or
(2) the lamp.
According to: (1) the verse would mean, âThe outward signs of pride, the proud heart, the broad lands of the wicked, all are evil.â (2) however, belongs, as it were, to the language of the time and of the book Proverbs 13:9; Proverbs 24:20. The âlamp of the wickedâ is their outwardly bright prosperity.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
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 — × ×¨ ner, lucerna, the lamp, the prosperity and posterity of the wicked is sin - it is evil in the seed, and evil in the root, evil in the branch, and evil in the fruit. They are full of sin themselves, and what they do is sinful.
