Proverbs 6:15 (BSB)
Therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in an instant he will be shattered beyond recovery.
From Proverbs 6. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Proverbs 6:15
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 6:12-19: Solomon here gives us, I. The characters of one that is mischievous to man and dangerous to be dealt with. If the slothful are to be condemned, that do nothing, much more those that do ill, and contrive to do all the ill they can. It is a naughty person that is here spoken of, Heb.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 6:15: These six things doth the Lord hate,.... That is, the six following, which are all to be found in a man of Belial, a wicked man before described. There are other things besides these that God hates, and indeed more so; as sins against the first table, which more immediately strike at his being, horror, and glory; these being such as are against the second...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 6:15: Suddenness aggravates evil (compare Pro 6:11; Pro 29:1). calamity--literally, "a crushing weight." broken--shivered as a potter's vessel; utterly destroyed (Psa 2:9).
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 6:12-15: Pro 6:12-15 There follows now a third brief series of instructions, which run to a conclusion with a deterring prospect similar to the foregoing. 12 A worthless man, a wicked man, Is he who practiseth falsehood with his mouth; 13 Who winketh with his eyes, scrapeth with his foot, Pointeth with his fingers. 14 Malice is in his heart, He deviseth evil at all times, He spreadeth strife.