Proverbs 16:5

“Every one [that is] proud in heart [is] an abomination to the Lord, etc.] Though he may dissemble his pride, and not discover it in his looks, by his words and gestures; yet the Lord sees and knows the heart, the naughtiness of it, and the pride that is in it: and only a proud look, but a proud heart, is abominable to him: everyone that is so arrogant as to arraign the decrees of God, and quarrel with him about them, to whom the apostle says, “Nay, but, O man”, O proud vain man, “who art thou, that repliest against God?” (<450919>Romans 9:19-21); every proud Pharisee, that trusts in himself that he is righteous, and despises others, that justifies himself before men, is an abomination in the…”

“(Compare Pro 3:32).”

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“16:5 God detests the proud, who refuse to commit their ways to the Lord (16:3) and mistakenly believe that they can accomplish their plans on their own (16:1).”

“that: Pro 6:16, Pro 6:17, Pro 8:13; Job 40:12; Jam 4:6 though: Pro 11:21 unpunished: Heb. held innocent, Exo 20:7; Isa 3:11; Rom 2:8, Rom 2:9 Proverbs 16:6”

“Here follow three proverbs of divine punishment, expiatio \[Vershnung\] and reconciliatio \[Vershnung\]. 5 An abomination of Jahve is every one who is haughty; The hand for it \[assuredly\] he remains not unpunished. Proverbs thus commencing we already had at Pro 15:9, Pro 15:26. גּבהּ is a metaplastic connecting form of גּבהּ; on the contrary, גּבהּ, Sa1 16:7; Psa 103:11, means being high, as גּבהּ, height; the form underlying גּבהּ is not גּבהּ (as Gesen. and Olshausen write it), but גּבהּ. In 5b, Pro 11:21 is repeated. The translators are perplexed in their rendering of יד ליד. Fleischer: ab aetate in aetatem non (i.e., nullo unquam tempore futuro) impunis erit. Proverbs 16:6”