Proverbs 6:17 (BSB)

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

From Proverbs 6. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 6:17

• 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 6:17: An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations,.... Or, "thoughts of wickedness" (e); which are framed and formed in the heart: and this being the source and fountain of all wickedness, is placed in the midst of these hateful and abominable things; See Gill on Pro 6:14; evil thoughts and designs, both against God and men, are intended, which are forged and fabricated in the wicked heart...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 6:17: proud look--literally, "eyes of loftiness" (Psa 131:1). Eyes, tongue, &c., for persons.
• 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...