Proverbs 29:27 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 29:27

This expresses not only the innate contrariety that there is between virtue and vice, as between light and darkness, fire and water, but the old enmity that has always been between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent, Gen. 3:15. 1. All that are sanctified have a rooted antipathy to wickedness and wicked people. They have a good will to the souls of all (God has, and would have none perish); but they hate the ways and practices of those that are impious towards God and injurious... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 29:27

An unjust man is an abomination to the just ,.... Not his person, but his actions, his unrighteous actions, his ungodly life and conversation; which a man, holy, just, and good, loathes and abhors, and cannot forbear expressing his abhorrence of; and therefore shuns his company, and will have no fellowship with him. And, on the other hand, he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked ; that man that is upright in heart and life, that walks according to the rule of the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 29:27

And he that is upright in the way - " But as for those that be in the right waye, the wicked hate them." - Coverdale. To this verse the Vulgate adds the following: Verbum custodiens filius extra perditionem erit ; "The son that keeps the word shall not fall into perdition." This is not in all copies of the Vulgate: but it was in that from which my old MS. Bible was made, where it is thus translated: The sone keping the worde schal ben out of perdicyon. I believe verbum here is intended... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 29:24-27

Prevalence in alliance with religion I. PRUDENCE AND RELIGION ARE EVER IN HARMONY . There can be no divorce between them. We are not placed between cross lights here. What intelligent regard to self prescribes, God's Law commands. Approach the facts of life from these two opposite sides, travel by either of these two paths, they meet at last in duty, in safety, in peace, and salvation. II. SOME EXAMPLES OF THIS HARMONY . 1 . All dishonesty or complicity... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 29:27

An unjust man is an abomination to the just. This great moral contrast, marked and universal, is a fitting close of the book. The word "abomination" ( toebah ) occurs more than twenty times in the Proverbs; it is appropriate here because the good man looks upon the sinner as the enemy of God, as the psalmist says, "Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them thine enemies" ( Psalms... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 29:27

How to hate the wicked There is a hatred we have to endure, and there is also a hatred which we have to cherish. The question of any difficulty is—What is the feeling we should cultivate in our hearts towards the guilty? We may glance at— I. THE HATRED OF US BY THE WICKED . "He that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked." 1 . This is a well-verified fact , attested by Scripture, by history, by observation, probably by experience. 2 . Its... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Proverbs 29:1-27

Authority with justice (29:1-27)Many themes that we have already met in Proverbs are repeated in this section: stubbornness, good and bad government, family values, prostitution, justice, flattery, cunning and concern for the poor (29:1-7). Scoffers are more than just fools; they are trouble-makers. They are not open to reason and cannot control their temper (8-11).Unjust rulers oppress innocent citizens, and the rich persecute the poor, but good and bad alike receive the blessings that God... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Proverbs 29:27

the just = just ones the wicked = a lawless one. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Proverbs 29:27

"An unjust man is an abomination to the righteous, But he that is upright in the way is an abomination to the wicked."Again, as in Proverbs 29:10, above, we have a statement of the eternal antagonism between good and evil. We like the way the Anchor Bible rendered it: "A depraved man is abominable to the just, as an honest man is abominable to the wicked one."[30] read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Proverbs 29:27

27. (Compare :-). On last clause, compare Proverbs 29:16; Psalms 37:12. read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 29:27

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 29:27

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 29:27

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 29:24-27

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 29:27

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 29:27

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Proverbs 29:1-27

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Proverbs 29:27

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Proverbs 29:27

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Proverbs 29:27

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