Proverbs 6:16 (BSB)

There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to Him:

From Proverbs 6. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 6:16

• 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 6:16: A proud look,.... Or, "eyes elated" (d); scorning to look down upon others; or looking upon them with disdain; or reckoning them as unworthy to be looked upon, having an high opinion of their own worth and merit. Pride is the first of the hateful things mentioned; it being the first sin committed, as is probable, the sin of the angels, and of the first...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 6:16: six . . . seven--a mode of speaking to arrest attention (Pro 30:15, Pro 30:18; Job 5:19).
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 6:16-19: Pro 6:16-19 What now follows is not a separate section (Hitzig), but the corroborative continuation of that which precedes. The last word (מדנים, strife) before the threatening of punishment, 14b, is also here the last. The thought that no vice is a greater abomination to God than the (in fact satanical) striving to set men at variance who love one another, clothes itself in the...