The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 6:12-19
11. Eleventh admonitory discourse. Warning against mischievousness as a thing hateful to God. The connection of this with the preceding discourse is not at first sight very clear, but it may be found in the fact, attested only too unhappily by experience, that sloth leads those who indulge in it to such vices as are next enumerated. The sluggard may develop into a treacherous and deceitful man, and even if such should not happen, the characteristics of the two are nearly allied, and their... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 6:12-15
The character and doom of the abandoned Perhaps there is no word which more aptly designates the man who is here described than the word "abandoned." The "man of Belial" ("the naughty man") is he who is abandoned, who has abandoned himself, to the promptings of his own evil nature, to the fascinations and tyrannies of sin. Here we see the features of his character and his doom. I. THAT IN SPEECH HE IS UTTERLY UNPRINCIPLED . "He walks with a froward mouth." He... read more