Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
These six - doth the Lord hate -
1.A proud look - exalted eyes; those who will not condescend to look on the rest of mankind.
2.A lying tongue - he who neither loves nor tells truth.
3.Hands that shed innocent blood, whether by murder or by battery.
4.A heart that deviseth wicked imaginations - the heart that fabricates such, lays the foundation, builds upon it, and completes the superstructure of iniquity.
5.Feet that be swift in running to mischief - he who works iniquity with greediness.
6.A false witness that speaketh lies - one who, even on his oath before a court of justice, tells any thing but the truth.
Seven are an abomination unto him - naphsho , "to his soul." The seventh is, he that soweth discord among brethren - he who troubles the peace of a family, of a village, of the state; all who, by lies and misrepresentations, strive to make men' s minds evil-affected towards their brethren.
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