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Proverbs 6:7-17

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7 1Without having any chief, 2officer, or ruler,
8 she prepares her bread 3in summer and 4gathers her food in harvest.
9 5How long will you lie there, 6O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep?
10 7A little sleep, a little slumber, 8a little 9folding of the hands to rest,
11 10and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.
12 11A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with 12crooked speech,
13 13winks with his eyes, signals[a] with his feet, points with his finger,
14 with 14perverted heart 15devises evil, continually 16sowing discord;
15 therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; 17in a moment he will be broken 18beyond healing.
16 There are 19six things that the LORD hates, 20seven that are an abomination to him:
17 21haughty eyes, 22a lying tongue, and 23hands that shed innocent blood,
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Proverbs 6:7-17 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PROVERBS 6

In this chapter the wise man dissuades from rash suretyship; exposes the sin of idleness; describes a wicked man; makes mention of seven things hateful to God; exhorts to attend to parental instructions and precepts, and cautions against adultery. Suretyship is described, Pr 6:1; and represented as a snare and a net, in which men are taken, Pr 6:2; and advice is given what to do in such a case, for safety in it, and deliverance from it, Pr 6:3-5; The sin of slothfulness is exposed, by observing the industry of the ant, Pr 6:6-8; by expostulating with the sluggard for his continuance in sloth, and by mimicking him, Pr 6:9,10; and by the poverty it brings upon him, Pr 6:11. Then a naughty wicked man is described, by his mouth, eyes, feet, fingers, and heart, whose ruin is sudden and inevitable, Pr 6:11-15. The seven things hateful to God are particularly named, Pr 6:16-19. And next the exhortation in some preceding chapters is reassumed, to attend to the instructions of parents; which will be found ornamental, pleasant, and useful, Pr 6:20-23. Especially to preserve from the lewd woman cautioned against, Pr 6:24,25; whose company is dissuaded from; on account of the extreme poverty and distress she brings persons to, and even danger of life, Pr 6:26; from the unavoidable ruin such come into, Pr 6:27-29; from the sin of uncleanness being greater than that of theft, Pr 6:30,31; from the folly the adulterer betrays; from the destruction of his soul, and the disgrace he brings on himself, Pr 6:32,33; and from the rage and irreconcilable offence of the husband of the adulteress, Pr 6:34,35.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 23

  • 1. [Proverbs 30:27]
  • 2. Exodus 5:6, 15
  • 3. [Proverbs 10:5]
  • 4. [Proverbs 10:5]
  • 5. [Jonah 1:6]
  • 6. [See ver. 6 above]
  • 7. Proverbs 24:33
  • 8. Ecclesiastes 4:5
  • 9. Proverbs 24:33
  • 10. Proverbs 24:34
  • 11. Proverbs 16:27
  • 12. Proverbs 4:24
  • 13. Proverbs 10:10; Psalms 35:19
  • 14. See Proverbs 2:12
  • 15. [Micah 2:1]; See Proverbs 3:29
  • 16. [Proverbs 16:28]
  • 17. Isaiah 30:13, 14; Jeremiah 19:11
  • 18. Proverbs 29:1; 2 Chronicles 36:16
  • 19. See Job 5:19
  • 20. See Job 5:19
  • 21. [Proverbs 8:13; Proverbs 16:5; Proverbs 21:4]; See Psalms 101:5
  • 22. Proverbs 12:22; Proverbs 17:7; Psalms 31:18; Psalms 120:2
  • 23. Deuteronomy 19:10; Isaiah 1:15; Isaiah 59:3, 7

Footnotes 1

The English Standard Version is published with the permission of Good News Publishers.