“ An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin. ”
The plowing - The Hebrew word, with a change in its vowel points, may signify either: (1) the “fallow field,” the “tillage” of Proverbs 13:23 , or (2) the lamp. According to: (1) the verse...
An high look, and a proud heart, [and] the (b) plowing of the wicked, [is] sin. (b) That is, the thing by which he is guided or which he brings forth as the fruit of his work.
Proverbs 21:1 . watercourses: not the natural brooks and wadys of Palestine, but the artificial irrigation canals of Egypt or Babylonia, which could be diverted in any direction at will. Prove...
And. Omit this "And". plowing: or tillage. See App-74. the wicked . lawless ones. Hebrew. rasha'. App-44. sin. Hebrew. chata'. App-44. The special word for the sin offering. Render the...
An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin. A high look - The evidence of pride, self-conceit, and vanity. A proud heart, from which the high look, etc., come. And th...
And the ploughing of the wicked— Dr. Grey is for taking the two parts of the verse separately, thus, "A lofty look and a proud heart go generally together; i.e. the countenance shews the dispositio...
An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin. An high look (haughtiness of eyes; Proverbs 6:17 ; Psalms 6:4 ; Isaiah 2:11 ), and a proud heart (enlargement o...
1. The 'watercourses' (RV) are the artificial irrigation channels of Egypt and Babylon ( Isaiah 58:11 ).
The plowing of the wicked. — i.e. , their work, all they do; for it is not done to please God but themselves; nor carried on in His strength, but in reliance upon their own, and therefore it is “s...
CHAPTER 22 WINE "He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: He that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich."- Proverbs 21:17 THE Septuagint translation has an interesting addition to the prov...
Verse Proverbs 21:4 . The "lamp" of a man's life is his spirit. Where that is exalted and manifests itself in the high look and the proud heart, there is sin. All of which is to say that for a man t...
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts. To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice. An high look, and a proud heart, and the plow...
An high look, and a proud heart ,.... The former is a sign of the latter, and commonly go together, and are both abominable to the Lord; see Psalms 101:5 . A man that looks above others, and with d...
An high look, and a proud heart, [and] the plowing of the wicked, [is] sin. Ver. 4. An high look and proud heart. ] See Trapp on " Pro 6:17 " And the ploughing of the wicked is sin.] As they...
A high look One sign of pride put for all the rest; and a proud heart Pride lurking and reigning in the heart, though it do not discover itself to men by outward actions, but be disguised with a...
4 An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin. This may be taken as showing us, 1. The marks of a wicked man. He that has a high look and a proud hear...
An high look; one gesture or sign of pride put for all the rest, Proverbs 6:17 . A proud heart; pride lurking and reigning in the heart, though it do not discover itself to men by outward acti...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 21:4 . The ploughing . This word is by most modern commentators translated, as in the marginal references, light . It is likewise so rendered in the Septuagint, the Vulg...
Proverbs 21:1 . The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord; as the rivers of water, he turneth it whithersoever he will. The allusion is probably to the water-meads and the ditches in the corn fi...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 21:1 The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water. We are to think of the little channels used for irrigation. As these are altogether under the...
v. 4. An high look and a proud heart, literally, "haughtiness of eyes and pompousness of heart," and the plowing of the wicked, either the light, the prosperity, or the whole business, all that t...
1 Peter 5:5 ; Isaiah 2:11 ; Isaiah 2:17 ; Isaiah 3:16 ; Luke 18:14 ; Proverbs 30:13 ; Proverbs 6:17 ; Proverbs 8:13 ; Proverbs 15:8 ; Proverbs 21:27 ; Psalms 10:4 ; Romans 14:23
The plowing — Even their civil or natural actions, which in themselves are lawful, are made sinful as they are managed by ungodly men, without any regard to the glory of God, which ought to be the...