Proverbs 6:17
People who show by their eyes that they are very proud; people who lie [MTY]; people [SYN] who kill others [SYN] who have done nothing wrong;
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
In Context
16There are six, maybe seven, kinds of people that Yahweh hates. They are:
18people who plan to do evil deeds; people [SYN] who run quickly to do wrong things;
Cross References
Deuteronomy 27:25‘Yahweh will curse anyone who accepts a bribe to murder someone who ◄is innocent/has not done something that is wrong.►’ And all the people must reply, ‘◄Amen/We want that to happen►.’
2 Kings 24:4Manasseh had even caused many innocent people in Jerusalem to be killed, and Yahweh would not forgive that.
Psalms 5:7Yahweh, because you love me so much and so faithfully, I come into your temple. I revere you greatly, and I bow down to worship you at your sacred temple.
Psalms 18:27You save those who are humble, but you cause those who are proud to be humiliated/ashamed.
Psalms 73:6So they are proud, and their being proud is like a necklace that they show to others, and they show off their violent actions like people show off their beautiful robes.
Psalms 120:2I prayed, “Yahweh, rescue/save me from people [SYN, MTY] who lie to me and try to deceive me!”
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 →