That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
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Gill's Exposition
That make a man an offender for a word,.... Inadvertently spoken, unwarily dropped, without any bad design or ill meaning; or for a word misplaced or misconstrued; or for preaching and professing the…
Barnes' Notes
That make a man an offender - literally, ‘who cause a man to sin’ (מחטיאי machăṭı̂y'ēy); that is, who hold a man to be guilty, or a criminal. Lowth renders this singularly enough: ‘Who bewildered…
Those that thought to hide their counsels from the Lord were said to turn things upside down (Isa 29:16), and they intended to do it unknown to God; but God here tells them that he will turn things…
Cambridge Bible
That make a man an offender for a word The verb rendered "make an offender" usually means "lead into sin" (Exo 23:33; Ecc 5:6, &c.); and is so understood in R.V. marg. "make men to offend by their…
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