Proverbs 6:17
High eyes, || False tongues, || And hands shedding innocent blood,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
In Context
16These six has YHWH hated, || Indeed, seven [are] abominations to His soul:
18A heart devising thoughts of vanity, || Feet hastening to run to evil,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 27:25“Cursed [is] he who is taking a bribe to strike a person, innocent blood.” And all the people have said, “Amen.”
2 Kings 24:4and also the innocent blood that he has shed, and he fills Jerusalem with innocent blood, and YHWH was not willing to forgive.
Psalms 5:7And I, in the abundance of Your kindness, || I enter Your house, || I bow myself toward Your holy temple in Your fear.
Psalms 18:27For You save a poor people, || And cause the eyes of the high to fall.
Psalms 73:6Therefore pride has encircled them, || Violence covers them as a dress.
Psalms 120:2O YHWH, deliver my soul from a lying lip, || From a deceitful tongue!
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 6:13-20
The Seven Abominations. 12 A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. 13 He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers; 14 Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord. 15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy. 16 These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: 17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, 18 An heart that… Read the whole commentary →