Proverbs 6:17

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Summary

Proverbs 6:17

A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

A proud look

Lying

And hands

Isaiah 59:3

General references

Deuteronomy 19:10

Proverbs 30:13

Bible References

A proud look

[There is] a generation--how lofty [are] their eyes! And their eyelids they will lift.

{With bald-faced pride} [the] wicked will not seek [God]. There is no God in any of his thoughts.

For you deliver humble people, but haughty eyes you humiliate.

Therefore pride is their necklace; an outfit of violence covers them.

One who slanders his neighbor in secret, him I will destroy. [One] haughty of eyes and {arrogant} of heart, him I will not endure.

My heart is not haughty nor my eyes {arrogant}. And I do not {concern myself} with things too great and difficult for me.

The {haughty eyes} of humanity will be brought low, and the pride of everyone will be humbled, and Yahweh alone will be exalted on that day.

The look on their faces testifies against them and they declare their sin like Sodom; they do not hide [it]. Woe to their soul! For they have dealt out evil to themselves.

In the same way, younger men, be subject to the elders, and all [of you] clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

Lying

An abomination of Yahweh are lips of deceit, but they who act faithfully [are] his delight.

A faithful witness does not lie, but he who breathes out falsehood is a witness of deceit.

A tongue of deceit hates its victim, and a flattering mouth makes ruin.

You destroy speakers of lies. {A man of bloodshed} and deceit Yahweh abhors.

"Deliver my life, O Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue."

Hear the word of Yahweh, children of Israel, for Yahweh has an indictment against the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or loyalty, there is no knowledge of God in the land.

You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father! That one was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand firm in the truth, because truth is not in him. Whenever he speaks the lie, he speaks from his own [nature], because he is a liar and the father {of lies}.

Outside [are] the dogs and the sorcerers and the sexually immoral people and the murderers and the idolaters and everyone who loves and who practices falsehood.

And hands

If they say, "Come with us! We shall lie in wait for blood; we shall ambush the innocent without cause.

'Cursed be the one who takes a bribe {to murder an innocent person}.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

Also, [for] the blood of the innocent that he had shed--and he filled Jerusalem [with] innocent blood--Yahweh was not willing to forgive.

And when you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I [will] not be listening. Your hands are full of blood.

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies, your tongue speaks wickedness.

General references

[Do this] so that innocent blood will not be shed in the midst of your land that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you [as an] inheritance and [thereby] bloodguilt would be on you.

[There is] a generation--how lofty [are] their eyes! And their eyelids they will lift.