These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him - literally, unto his soul. The Khethibh (Hebrew text) reads, 'abominable things;' but the Qeri' reads as the English version. As to the phrase "six
... and seven" to imply an accumulation, cf. note, Amos 1:3. Solomon passes from the description of the froward man (Proverbs 6:12-15) to setting forth the many sins which accumulate themselves in him, and which bring on him sudden and irremediable calamity. He fixes on those sins which are most prejudicial to one's neighbour; as it is of these that the context is speaking.