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Proverbs 6:14

Proverbs 6:14
Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord .

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly,.... Unthought of and unexpected: he that deviseth mischief to others secretly shall have no warning of his own ruin, nor time and means of preventing it;…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Proverbs 6:12-19

Solomon here gives us,

I. The characters of one that is mischievous to man and dangerous to be dealt with. If the slothful are to be condemned, that do nothing, much more those that do ill, and…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

soweth) Vulg. seminat. So R.V. with "Heb. letteth loose", in marg. Lit. sendeth or casteth forth, as was done in the hand sowing of those days and countries. Comp. ὡς ἄνθρωπος βάλῃ τὸν σπόρον ἐπὶ τῆς…