Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the LORD; be assured, he will not go unpunished.
Note, 1. The pride of sinners sets God against them. He that, being high in estate is proud in heart, whose spirit is elevated with his condition, so that he becomes insolent in his conduct towards God and man, let him know that though he admires himself, and others caress him, yet he is an abomination to the Lord. The great God despises him; the holy God detest him. 2.
Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord,.... 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...
Pro 16:5 Here follow three proverbs of divine punishment, expiatio [Versühnung] and reconciliatio [Versöhnung]. 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.