Proverbs 17:19
Whoever is loving transgression is loving debate, || Whoever is making his entrance high is seeking destruction.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.
In Context
18A man lacking heart is striking hands, || He becomes a guarantor before his friend.
20The perverse of heart does not find good, || And the [one] turned in his tongue falls into evil.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:36And Abigail comes to Nabal, and behold, he has a banquet in his house, like a banquet of the king, and the heart of Nabal [is] glad within him, and he [is] drunk to excess, and she has not declared anything to him, little or much, until the morning light.
1 Kings 1:5And Adonijah son of Haggith is lifting himself up, saying, “I reign”; and he prepares for himself a chariot and horsemen, and fifty men running before him,
Proverbs 17:14The beginning of contention [is] a letting out of waters, || And leave the strife before it is meddled with.
Proverbs 24:27Prepare your work in an out-place, || And make it ready in the field—go afterward, || Then you have built your house.
Proverbs 29:22An angry man stirs up contention, || And a furious man is multiplying transgression.
Daniel 4:20The tree that you have seen, that has become great and strong, and its height reaches to the heavens, and its vision to all the land,
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 17:19
18 A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his friend. Though Solomon had commended friendship in adversity ( v. 17 ), yet let not any, under pretence of being generous to their friends, be unjust to their families and wrong them; one part of our duty must be made to consist with another. Note, 1. It is a piece of wisdom to keep out of debt as much as may be, especially to dread suretiship. There may be a just occasion for a man to pass his word for his friend in his… Read the whole commentary →