Verse 12
PICTURE OF THE WICKED MAN AND HIS DESTINY, Proverbs 6:12-15.
12. A naughty person Literally, a man of Belial, or, a man of worthlessness. Compare Deuteronomy 13:13: Judges 19:22.
A wicked man… froward mouth The man of worthlessness is, perhaps, the predicate, and “a wicked man” the subject, to be connected by is; and so we may render, A wicked man is a man of worthlessness. And so Noyes spiritedly renders the passage:
“A wicked man is a worthless wretch,
Who walketh with a deceitful mouth,
Who winketh with his eyes,
Speaketh with his feet,
And teacheth with his fingers.”
The picture of the wicked man, with his language of signs, is drawn as far as the close of Proverbs 6:14; with the therefore of Proverbs 6:15 commences his destiny. Miller translates, “A worthless man, utterly vain, talking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, motioning with his fingers, with upturnings in his heart, fabricating evil, will be putting forth grounds of quarrel all the time.” The last clause is translated rather freely, the rest may pass. He makes that clause the apodosis of all that precedes.
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