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Proverbs 6:13

They use secret signals to cheat people; they wink their eyes, shuffle their feet, and point a finger.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Falsehood;   Innuendo;   Strife;   Wicked (People);   Young Men;   Thompson Chain Reference - Winking;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Death;   Eye;   Gestures;   Proverbs, Book of;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Feet;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Feet;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Eye;   Finger (1);   Foot;   Gesture;   Wink;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ethics;   Eye;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
winking his eyes, signaling with his feet,and gesturing with his fingers.
Hebrew Names Version
Who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, Who motions with his fingers;
King James Version
He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;
English Standard Version
winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, points with his finger,
New Century Version
winking with their eyes, tapping with their feet, and making signs with their fingers.
New English Translation
he winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, and points with his fingers;
Amplified Bible
Who winks with his eyes [in mockery], who shuffles his feet [to signal], Who points with his fingers [to give subversive instruction];
New American Standard Bible
Who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, Who points with his fingers;
World English Bible
Who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, Who motions with his fingers;
Geneva Bible (1587)
He maketh a signe with his eyes: he signifieth with his feete: he instructeth wt his fingers.
Legacy Standard Bible
Who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet,Who points with his fingers;
Berean Standard Bible
winking his eyes, speaking with his feet, and pointing with his fingers.
Contemporary English Version
winking and giving signals to deceive others.
Complete Jewish Bible
winking his eyes, shuffling his feet, pointing with his fingers.
Darby Translation
he winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;
George Lamsa Translation
He winks with his eyes, he signals with his feet, he makes signs with his fingers;
Good News Translation
Lexham English Bible
Winking in his eye, shuffling in his foot, pointing in his fingers,
Literal Translation
winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, teaching with his fingers.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
he wyncketh with his eyes, he tokeneth wt his fete, he poynteth wt his fyngers,
American Standard Version
That winketh with his eyes, that speaketh with his feet, That maketh signs with his fingers;
Bible in Basic English
Making signs with his eyes, rubbing with his feet, and giving news with his fingers;
JPS Old Testament (1917)
That winketh with his eyes, that scrapeth with his feet, that pointeth with his fingers;
King James Version (1611)
He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feete, hee teacheth with his fingers.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He winketh with his eyes, he tokeneth with his feete, he teacheth with his fingers.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the same winks with the eye, and makes a sign with his foot, and teaches with the beckonings of his fingers.
English Revised Version
He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he maketh signs with his fingers;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
he bekeneth with iyen, he trampith with the foot, he spekith with the fyngur,
Update Bible Version
That winks with his eyes, that speaks with his feet, That makes signs with his fingers;
Webster's Bible Translation
He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;
New King James Version
He winks with his eyes, He shuffles his feet, He points with his fingers;
New Living Translation
signaling their deceit with a wink of the eye, a nudge of the foot, or the wiggle of fingers.
New Life Bible
He winks with his eyes, makes signs with his feet, and makes certain moves with his fingers.
New Revised Standard
winking the eyes, shuffling the feet, pointing the fingers,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Winketh with his eyes, speaketh with his foot, pointeth with his fingers;
Douay-Rheims Bible
He winketh with the eyes, presseth with the foot, speaketh with the finger.
Revised Standard Version
winks with his eyes, scrapes with his feet, points with his finger,
Young's Literal Translation
Winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, Directing with his fingers,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, Who points with his fingers;

Contextual Overview

12 Some people are just troublemakers. They are always thinking up some crooked plan and telling lies. 13 They use secret signals to cheat people; they wink their eyes, shuffle their feet, and point a finger. 14 They are always planning to do something bad. 15 But they will be punished. Disaster will strike, and they will be destroyed. There will be no one to help them. 16 The Lord hates these seven things: 17 eyes that show pride, tongues that tell lies, hands that kill innocent people, 18 hearts that plan evil things to do, feet that run to do evil, 19 witnesses in court who tell lies, and anyone who causes family members to fight.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 5:6, Proverbs 10:10, Job 15:12, Psalms 35:19

Reciprocal: Psalms 10:8 - his eyes Psalms 17:11 - set Isaiah 58:9 - the putting

Cross-References

Genesis 6:1
The number of people on earth continued to increase. When these people had daughters, the sons of God saw how beautiful they were. So they chose the women they wanted. They married them, and the women had their children. Then the Lord said, "People are only human. I will not let my Spirit be troubled by them forever. I will let them live only 120 years." During this time and also later, the Nephilim people lived in the land. They have been famous as powerful soldiers since ancient times.
Genesis 6:6
The Lord was sorry that he had made people on the earth. It made him very sad in his heart.
Genesis 6:7
So the Lord said, "I will destroy all the people I created on the earth. I will destroy every person and every animal and everything that crawls on the earth. And I will destroy all the birds in the air, because I am sorry that I have made them."
Genesis 6:10
Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 6:11
When God looked at the earth, he saw that people had ruined it. Violence was everywhere, and it had ruined their life on earth.
Genesis 7:23
In this way God wiped the earth clean—he destroyed every living thing on the earth—every human, every animal, everything that crawls, and every bird. All that was left was Noah and his family and the animals that were with him in the boat.
Genesis 49:5
"Simeon and Levi are brothers. They are violent with their swords.
Jeremiah 51:13
Babylon, you live near much water. You are rich with treasures, but your end as a nation has come. It is time for you to be destroyed.
Amos 8:2
He said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" I said, "A basket of summer fruit." Then the Lord said to me, "The end has come to my people Israel. I will not ignore their sins anymore.
Hebrews 11:7
Noah was warned by God about things that he could not yet see. But he had faith and respect for God, so he built a large boat to save his family. With his faith, Noah showed that the world was wrong. And he became one of those who are made right with God through faith.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He winketh with his eyes,.... Not through natural infirmity, but purposely and with design; with one of his eyes, as Aben Ezra, as is usual with such persons: it is the air and gesture of a sneering and deceitful man, who gives the wink to some of his friends, sneering at the weakness of another in company; or as signifying to them some secret design of his against another, which he chooses not to declare in any other way;

he speaketh with his feet; the motions of the feet have a language; the stamping of the feet expresses rage; here it seems to intend the giving of a him to another, by privately pressing his foot with his, when he should be silent or should speak, or do this or the other thing he would have him do;

he teacheth with his fingers; by stretching them out or compressing them; and so showing either scorn and contempt x, or rage and fury. The whole of it seems to design the secret, cunning, artful ways, which wicked men have to convey their meanings to one another, without being understood by other persons; they have a language to themselves, which they express by the motions of their eyes, feet, and fingers: and this character of art and cunning, dissimulation and deceit, fitly agrees with the man of sin, 2 Thessalonians 2:10. So mimics are said to speak with their hands; some have been famous in this way y.

x "In hunc intende digitum", Plauti Pseudolus, Act. 4. Sc. 7. v. 45. "----aliis dat digito literas", Ennius. y Vid. Barthii Animadv. ad Claudian. de Consul. Mallii Paneg. v. 311.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 6:13. He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers — These things seem to be spoken of debauchees; and the following quotation from Ovid, Amor. lib. i., El. iv., ver. 15, shows the whole process of the villany spoken of by Solomon:

Cum premit ille torum, vultu comes ipsa modesto

Ibis, ut accumbas: clam mihi tange pedem.

Me specta, nutusque meos, vultum que loquacem

Excipe furtivas, et refer ipsa, notas.

Verba superciliis sine voce loquentia dicam

Verba leges digitis, verba notata mero.

Cum tibi succurrit Veneris lascivia nostrae,

Purpureas tenero pollice tange genas, &c., &c.


The whole elegy is in the same strain: it is translated in Garth's Ovid, but cannot be introduced here.


 
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