Proverbs 6:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

A naughty person Hebrew, a man of Belial, a wicked man, whose continual practice it is, in one way or other, to work wickedness; walketh with a froward mouth Makes it his business, by lies; or flatteries, or slanders, or perjuries, to maintain himself in his idle courses. And if the slothful are to be condemned that do nothing, much more those that act wickedly, and contrive to do all the ill they can. He winketh with his eyes, &c. He vents his wickedness, as by his speech, so also by his gestures, by which he secretly intimates what he is ashamed or afraid to express openly to his accomplices, his intentions or desires of doing some evil to some one; he teacheth with his fingers Having declared his designs by the motion of his eyes, or feet, he points out the particular person by his fingers. Frowardness is in his heart Perverse or wicked thoughts and desires. He soweth discord Either out of malice against others, or out of a base design of improving it to his own advantage. Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly And prove his utter ruin; suddenly shall he be broken When he fancies he has conducted his matters so craftily that nobody discerns his villany, he shall, on a sudden, be looked upon as the pest of mankind, and, like a vessel broken in small pieces, shall be incurably undone.