Proverbs 6:19-35 ESV

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 6:16-19

Proverbs 6:16-19These six things doth the Lord hate.The seven abominable thingsA catalogue of evils specially odious to the Infinite One.I. Haughty bearing. “A proud look.” Pride is frequently represented in the Bible as an offence to the Holy God. Haughtiness is an abomination, because it implies--1. Self-ignorance.2. Unkindness.3. Irreverence.II. Verbal falsehood. “A lying tongue.”1. Falsehood always implies a wrong heart. A pure heart supplies no motive for falsehood. Vanity, avarice,... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 6:20

Proverbs 6:20My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother.Words of counsel to schoolboysWhile your recollections of home are fresh I am anxious to direct your thoughts to one or two matters to which those recollections may possibly give a weight and a force which they might not otherwise possess.I. Cherish home ties as among your most sacred possessions. One of the dangers of public school-life is learning to disparage feelings of affection for the home. It is... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 6:22

Proverbs 6:22When thou goest, it shall lead thee.The comfort of the thought of God’s guidance in after-life of those brought up in His fear and loveWho is there who has never felt in his heart a wish for some one to advise, direct, and help him? There is an Adviser, a Helper, promised to us, able, powerful to guide and help us with unerring wisdom through any difficulties or troubles--the gracious Father, the redeeming Son, the Spirit that maketh holy. All of us need, daily need, such a... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 6:23

Proverbs 6:23The law is light The law is lightThe fitness and beauty of this comparison of the law of God with fight are seen immediately.If we consider the nature of law we find that it is like the nature of sunlight. There is nothing so pure and clean as light, and there is nothing so pure and stainless as the Divine law. There is nothing so ubiquitous as light. It is everywhere. How very like this light in the material universe is the law of God in the rational. The one naturally suggests... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 6:24

Proverbs 6:24To keep thee from the evil woman.The sin of uncleanness1. One great kindness God designed men in giving them His law was to preserve them from this sin.2. The greatest kindness we can do ourselves is to keep at a distance from this sin. Arguments urging this caution are--(1) It is a sin that impoverishes men.(2) It threatens death; it kills men.(3) It brings guilt upon the conscience and debauches it.(4) It ruins the reputation, and entails perpetual infamy.(5) It exposes the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 6:27

Proverbs 6:27Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?The danger of playing with enticements to sinThe law of the acquisition of knowledge is that the mind knows the unknown through the known. It gets at the distant through the near, and at the near through the nearer. It ascends to the Divine through the human, and through the material and the temporal mounts up to the spiritual and eternal. As a consequence, the teaching of the Scriptures in the feature alluded to is... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 6:30

Proverbs 6:30If he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry.Theft through necessityThe deceitful and perverting influence of sin requires careful consideration. While as yet it is only a principle in the mind, and not ripened into an external action, it draws into its service the various powers of imagination, invention, and even reason itself. By these powers the forbidden object is represented as a source of peculiar enjoyment, or it is invested with features of external attraction, or it... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 6:32

Proverbs 6:32He that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.The suicide of the soulLovely as maiden purity is, and crowned with benedictions though it is by Christ, we have here to learn its excellence and fear its loss, by the sad, stern picture of impurity and shameless sin. In these sad proverbs of purity the wise man pictures to us in fearful personification wisdom’s rival standing in the same great thoroughfares of earth and bidding to her shameful pleasures the simple youth who throng the broad... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 6:19

Pro 6:19 A false witness [that] speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. Ver. 19. A false witness that speaketh lies. ] Heb., That blows abroad lies, - as with a pair of bellows; that vents them boldly and freely in open court, in the face of the country. These knights of the post can lend an oath for a need, as they did Jezebel against Naboth, and, like those in the history, will not stick to swear that their friend or foe was at Rome and Interamna both at once. God oft... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 6:20

Pro 6:20 My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: Ver. 20. My son, keep thy father’s commandment.] The commandments of religious parents are the very commandments of God himself, and are therefore to be as carefully kept "as the apple of a man’s eye." Pro 7:2 See Trapp on " Pro 1:8 " read more

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 6:16-19

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 6:20

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 6:22

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 6:23

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 6:24

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 6:27

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 6:30

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 6:32

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 6:19

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 6:20

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