14 His mind is ever designing evil: he lets loose violent acts.
A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.
A heart full of evil designs, feet which are quick in running after sin; A false witness, breathing out untrue words, and one who lets loose violent acts among brothers.
Who take pleasure in wrongdoing, and have joy in the evil designs of the sinner;
Do not make evil designs against your neighbour, when he is living with you without fear.
A man of twisted purposes is a cause of fighting everywhere: and he who says evil secretly makes trouble between friends. A violent man puts desire of evil into his neighbour's mind, and makes him go in a way which is not good. He whose eyes are shut is a man of twisted purposes, and he who keeps his lips shut tight makes evil come about.
Twisted is the way of him who is full of crime; but as for him whose heart is clean, his work is upright.
By planting the seed of evil a man will get in the grain of sorrow, and the rod of his wrath will be broken.
He who gets mixed up in a fight which is not his business, is like one who takes a dog by the ears while it is going by. As one who is off his head sends about flaming sticks and arrows of death, So is the man who gets the better of his neighbour by deceit, and says, Am I not doing so in sport? Without wood, the fire goes out; and where there is no secret talk, argument is ended. Like breath on coals and wood on fire, so a man given to argument gets a fight started. The words of one who says evil of his neighbour secretly are like sweet food, they go down into the inner parts of the stomach.
The designs of the false are evil, purposing the destruction of the poor man by false words, even when he is in the right.
But the evil-doers are like the troubled sea, for which there is no rest, and its waters send up earth and waste.
For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.
Now, it is my desire, brothers, that you will take note of those who are causing division and trouble among you, quite against the teaching which was given to you: and keep away from them.
Be not tricked; God is not made sport of: for whatever seed a man puts in, that will he get back as grain. Because he who puts in the seed of the flesh will of the flesh get the reward of death; but he who puts in the seed of the Spirit will of the Spirit get the reward of eternal life.
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Commentary on Proverbs 6 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 6
In this chapter we have,
We are here dissuaded from sin very much by arguments borrowed from our secular interests, for it is not only represented as damning in the other world, but as impoverishing in this.
Pro 6:1-5
It is the excellency of the word of God that it teaches us not only divine wisdom for another world, but human prudence for this world, that we may order our affairs with discretion; and this is one good rule, To avoid suretiship, because by it poverty and ruin are often brought into families, which take away that comfort in relations which he had recommended in the foregoing chapter.
But how are we to understand this? We are not to think it is unlawful in any case to become surety, or bail, for another; it may be a piece of justice or charity; he that has friends may see cause in this instance to show himself friendly, and it may be no piece of imprudence. Paul became bound for Onesimus, Philem. 19. We may help a young man into business that we know to be honest and diligent, and gain him credit by passing our word for him, and so do him a great kindness without any detriment to ourselves. But,
Pro 6:6-11
Solomon, in these verses, addresses himself to the sluggard who loves his ease, lives in idleness, minds no business, sticks to nothing, brings nothing to pass, and in a particular manner is careless in the business of religion. Slothfulness is as sure a way to poverty, though not so short a way, as rash suretiship. He speaks here to the sluggard,
Pro 6:12-19
Solomon here gives us,
Pro 6:20-35
Here is,