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Proverbs 21:4
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The lamp that guides the wicked—haughty eyes and an arrogant heart—is sin.
A high look, and a proud heart, The lamp of the wicked, is sin.
An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.
Haughty eyes and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, are sin.
Haughty eyes and a proud heart, The lamp of the wicked, is sin.
Proud looks, proud thoughts, and evil actions are sin.
Haughty and arrogant eyes and a proud heart, The lamp of the wicked [their self-centered pride], is sin [in the eyes of God].
A high look, and a proud heart, The lamp of the wicked, is sin.
A hautie looke, and a proude heart, which is the light of the wicked, is sinne.
Haughty eyes and a proud heart—The fallow ground of the wicked—are sin.
Haughty eyes and a proud heart-the guides of the wicked-are sin.
Evil people are proud and arrogant, but sin is the only crop they produce.
Haughty looks, a proud heart — what the wicked plow is sin.
Lofty eyes, and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, is sin.
Proud looks and proud thoughts are sins. They show a person is evil.
Haughty eyes, a proud heart, and the posterity of the wicked are sinful.
Wicked people are controlled by their conceit and arrogance, and this is sinful.
Haughtiness of the eyes and pride of heart, the lamp of the wicked are sin.
High eyes, a proud heart, and the uncultivated mind of the wicked, is sin.
A presumptuous loke, a proude stomacke, & the lanterne of the vngodly is synne.
A high look, and a proud heart, Even the lamp of the wicked, is sin.
A high look and a heart of pride, *** Three astrics are used as a sign that one or more Hebrew words, necessary to the sense, have been taken out at some time or other. of the evil-doer is sin.
A haughty look, and a proud heart--the tillage of the wicked is sin.
An high looke, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sinne.
An high looke, a proude heart, and the plowing of the vngodly is sinne.
A high-minded man is stout-hearted in his pride; and the lamp of the wicked is sin.
An high look, and a proud heart, even the lamp of the wicked, is sin.
Enhaunsyng of iyen is alargyng of the herte; the lanterne of wickid men is synne.
A high look, and a proud heart, [Even] the lamp of the wicked, is sin.
A high look, and a proud heart, [and] the plowing of the wicked, [is] sin.
Haughty eyes and a proud heart— the agricultural product of the wicked is sin.
A haughty look, a proud heart,And the plowing [fn] of the wicked are sin.
Haughty eyes, a proud heart, and evil actions are all sin.
Haughty eyes and a proud heart— the lamp of the wicked—are sin.
Loftiness of eyes, and ambition of heart - the lamp of the lawless, are sin.
Haughtiness of the eyes is the enlarging of the heart: the lamp of the wicked is sin.
Haughty eyes and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, are sin.
Loftiness of eyes, and breadth of heart, Tillage of the wicked [is] sin.
Arrogance and pride—distinguishing marks in the wicked— are just plain sin.
Haughty eyes and a proud heart, The lamp of the wicked, is sin.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
An high look: Heb. Haughtiness of eyes, Proverbs 6:17, Proverbs 8:13, Proverbs 30:13, Psalms 10:4, Isaiah 2:11, Isaiah 2:17, Isaiah 3:16, Luke 18:14, 1 Peter 5:5
and the: Proverbs 21:27, Proverbs 15:8, Romans 14:23
plowing of the wicked: or, light of the wicked
Reciprocal: Leviticus 11:34 - General 2 Samuel 22:28 - but thine Proverbs 15:9 - The way Ezekiel 16:49 - pride Haggai 2:14 - So is this people Zechariah 14:20 - shall there Luke 21:34 - your hearts Titus 1:15 - but
Cross-References
So Sarah said to Abraham, "Put this woman servant and her son out of your home. The son of this woman servant will never get any of the riches of the family as will my son Isaac."
But God said to Abraham, "Do not be full of sorrow because of the boy and the woman who serves you. Listen to whatever Sarah tells you. For your children and all their children's children after you will be given a name through Isaac.
At that time, Abimelech with Phicol, the head of his army, said to Abraham, "God is with you in all that you do.
So promise me here by God that you will not work against me, or my son, or any children after me. I have shown you kindness. So return kindness to me and to the land where you have come."
But when a stranger staying with you wants to share in this special supper to the Lord, let all his men and boys go through the religious act of becoming a Jew. Then let him come near to share in the special supper. He will be like one who is born in the land. But no person who has not gone through the religious act may eat of it.
On the eighth day the child is to go through the religious act of becoming a Jew.
"Be careful to do whatever I tell you. Do not add to it or take away from it.
They were right with God and obeyed the Jewish Law and did what the Lord said to do.
On the eighth day they did the religious act of the Jews on the child. They named him Zacharias, after his father.
When eight days were over, they did the religious act of becoming a Jew on the Child. He was named Jesus. This name was given to Him by the angel when Mary was told He was to be born.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
An high look, and a proud heart,.... The former is a sign of the latter, and commonly go together, and are both abominable to the Lord; see Psalms 101:5. A man that looks above others, and with disdain upon them, shows that pride reigns in him, and swells his mind with a vain opinion of himself; this may be observed in every self-righteous man; the parable of the Pharisee and publican is a comment upon it; sometimes there may be a proud heart under a disguise of humility; but the pride of the heart is often discovered by the look of the eyes. It may be rendered, "the elevation of the eyes, and the enlargement of the heart" p; but not to be understood in a good sense, of the lifting up of the eyes in prayer to God, with faith and fear; nor of the enlargement of the heart with solid knowledge and wisdom, such as Solomon had; but in a bad sense, of the lofty looks and haughtiness of man towards his fellow creatures, and of his unbounded desires after filthy lucre or sinful lusts: the Targum renders it,
"the swelling of the heart,''
with pride and vanity;
[and] the ploughing of the wicked [is] sin; taken literally; not that it is so in itself; for it is a most useful invention, and exceeding beneficial to mankind, and is to be ascribed to God himself; and of this the Heathens are so sensible, that they have a deity to whom they attribute it, and whom they call Ceres q, from חרש, to plough; it only denotes that all the civil actions of a wicked man, one being put for all, are attended with sin; he sins in all he does. Or, metaphorically, for his schemes, contrivances, and projects, which are the ploughing of his mind; these are all sinful, or tend to that which is so. Some understand this particularly of his high look and proud heart, which are his ploughing and his sin; Ben Melech; and others of his ploughing, or persecuting and oppressing, the poor. The word is sometimes used for a lamp or light, and is so rendered here by some, "the light of the wicked [is] sin" r; their outward happiness and prosperity leads them into sin, involves them in guilt, and so brings them to ruin and destruction: and this way go the Targum: Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions.
p רום עינים ורחב לב "elatio oculorum et latitudo cordis", Piscator, Michaelis, Cocceius, Schultens. q "Prima Ceres ferro mortales vertere terram instituit", Virgil. Georgic. l. 1. r נר רשעים "Incerna impiorum", V. L. Mercerus, Gejerus, Cocceius, Michaelis, Schultens.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The plowing - The Hebrew word, with a change in its vowel points, may signify either:
(1) the “fallow field,” the “tillage” of Proverbs 13:23, or
(2) the lamp.
According to: (1) the verse would mean, “The outward signs of pride, the proud heart, the broad lands of the wicked, all are evil.” (2) however, belongs, as it were, to the language of the time and of the book Proverbs 13:9; Proverbs 24:20. The “lamp of the wicked” is their outwardly bright prosperity.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 21:4. A high look — The evidence of pride, self-conceit, and vanity. A proud heart, from which the high look, c., come.
And the ploughing — נר ner, lucerna, the lamp, the prosperity and posterity of the wicked is sin - it is evil in the seed, and evil in the root, evil in the branch, and evil in the fruit. They are full of sin themselves, and what they do is sinful.
