Proverbs 15:8
The victims of the wicked are abominable to the Lord: the vows of the just are acceptable.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
In The King James Version
In Context
7The lips of the wise shall disperse knowledge: the heart of fools shall be unlike.
9The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord: he that followeth justice is beloved by him.
Cross References
1 Kings 3:10And the word was pleasing to the Lord, that Solomon had asked such a thing.
Psalms 17:1Unto the end, for David, the servant of the Lord, who spoke to the Lord the words of this canticle, in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: and he said:
Proverbs 15:29The Lord is far from the wicked: and he will hear the prayers of the just.
Proverbs 28:9He that turneth away his ears from hearing the law, his prayer shall be an abomination.
Song of Solomon 2:14My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hollow places of the wall, shew me thy face, let thy voice sound in my ears: for thy voice is sweet, and thy face comely.
Isaiah 1:11To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 15:8
7 The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so. This is to the same purport with v. 2 , and shows what a blessing a wise man is and what a burden a fool is to those about him. Only here observe further, 1. That we then use knowledge aright when we disperse it, not confine it to a few of our intimates, and grudge it to others who would make as good use of it, but give a portion of this spiritual alms to seven and also to eight, not only be communicative, but diffusive, of this… Read the whole commentary →