Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Proverbs 6:14

Frowardness [is] in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.

14. soweth) Vulg. seminat. So R.V. with “Heb. letteth loose ”, in marg. Lit. sendeth or casteth forth, as was done in the hand sowing of those days and countries. Comp. , Mar 4:26. The idea of sowing is not contained, however, in the Heb. word, and the phrase “sowing strife” may merely be chosen as the best Eng. equivalent for the Heb. phrase. Comp. Pro 6:19 below, and Pro 16:28.

Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

Verse 14. He deviseth mischief] He plots schemes and plans to bring it to pass.

He soweth discord.] Between men and their wives, by seducing the latter from their fidelity. See the preceding quotation.

Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible

Frowardness; perverse or wicked thoughts and desires.

He soweth discord; either out of malice against others, or out of a base design of improving it to his own advantage.

Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole

14. Frowardnessas in Pr2:14.

devisethliterally,”constructs, as an artisan.”

mischiefevil toothers.

discordespeciallylitigation. Cunning is the talent of the weak and lazy.

Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Frowardness [is] in his heart,…. Or perverse things; evil habits and principles of sin; all manner of wickedness, errors and heresies; things contrary to right reason, repugnant to the will and law of God, and the reverse of sound doctrine; all evil thoughts and evil things; see Mt 15:19;

he deviseth mischief continually; against his neighbours, and especially against good men; he is continually planning schemes, contriving methods, ways, and means, how to disturb, distress, and ruin men; being a true child of Belial, or of the devil, his heart is the forge where he is continually framing wickedness in one shape or another; and the ground which he is always ploughing up and labouring at to bring forth sin and wickedness, and with which it is fruitful;

he soweth discord; or “strifes” z: the Syriac version adds, “between two”; which Jarchi interprets between a man and his Maker; rather between a man and his neighbour; between one friend and another; between husband and wife, parents and children, brethren and brethren, magistrates and subjects; between kings and princes of the earth in which sort of work the man of sin, antichrist, has been very busy. The Targum is, “he casteth out strifes”, as firebrands among men. The words in the Hebrew text are, “he sendeth out discord”, or “strife” a; these are the messengers sent out by him to make mischief.

z “contentiones”, Pagninus, Montanus, Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Mercerus, Gejerus “jurgia”, V. L. “lites”, Baynus, Cocceius; “litigia”, Schultens. a “mittet”, Pagninus, Montanus; “immittit”, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Mercerus, Gejerus, Schultens, Michaelis.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

14. Frowardness Perversions.

Soweth Casteth forth, or excites. Such men are perpetually at work contriving mischief, exciting suspicious, stirring up hatred, strife, brawls, lawsuits, discords in families, and revolutions in governments.

Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Pro 6:14. Frowardness is in his heart, &c. Pravo corde architectatur malum, as one translation has it: he does not do mischief by chance or negligently, but deliberates how he may do it with most success; he builds it commodiously and speciously to the eye, that it may invite men to inhabit it: there is no industry nor art wanting to make it prosper, and yield a good harvest.

Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke

Pro 6:14 Frowardness [is] in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.

Ver. 14. Frowardness is in his heart. ] What marvel then though he solecise with his hand, a though he twinkle with his eye, and tinkle with his feet, &c.? “When he speaketh fair, believe him not, for there are seven abominations in his heart.” Pro 26:25 Even those seven next mentioned here, Pro 6:16-19 as Aben Ezra conceiveth upon that text.

He deviseth mischief continually. ] Heb., At all times. Pliny speaks of the scorpion, that there is not one minute wherein it doth not put forth the sting. The soul of a wicked man is “in a sling,” 1Sa 25:29 restless, and violently tossed about by Satan, who acts and agitates him. Eph 2:2 Mic 2:1 Hos 7:6

He soweth discord. ] And so shows himself a true breathing devil, a disciple of Machiavel, whose maxim was, divide et impera, make division and get dominion. In the year 1579, Allen at Rhemes instructed his emissary seducers, sent over into England, to make way for their great project of perdition in 1588, by dividing the people under the terms of Protestant and Puritan, and provoking them thereby to real and mutual both hate and contempt. b And what labouring there is now by the Jesuit party to heighten our unhappy differences, that they may make themselves masters of all, who seeth not? Herein they deal, – saith Gregory, of the like factors for the devil in his time, – as the master of the pit, who oft sets two cocks to fight together to the death of both, that after mutual conquest, he may sup with both their carcases. The Jews, before they were banished out of this kingdom, threw bags of poison into the wells and fountains that the people were to drink of, and thereby endeavoured to poison them all: so do our seedsmen of sedition.

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b Archbishop Abbot’s answer to Dr HilI’s Three Reasons.

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)

Frowardness = Deceitfulness. See note on Pro 2:12. The same word as in Pro 2:12, Pro 2:14; Pro 8:13; Pro 10:31, Pro 10:32; Pro 16:28, Pro 16:30. Not the same as elsewhere in Proverbs.

soweth = casteth forth [as seed].

Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics

Frowardness: Pro 2:14, Pro 16:28-30, Pro 21:8

he deviseth: Pro 6:18, Psa 36:4, Isa 32:7, Isa 57:20, Eze 11:2, Mic 2:1

soweth: Heb. casteth forth, Pro 6:19, Pro 16:28, Pro 22:8, Pro 26:17-22, Hos 8:7, Rom 16:17, Gal 6:7, Gal 6:8

Reciprocal: Gen 27:41 – then 1Ki 20:7 – seeketh mischief Psa 17:11 – set Psa 52:1 – mischief Pro 3:29 – Devise not evil Pro 6:12 – walketh Pro 11:20 – of Pro 24:2 – General Pro 24:8 – General Eze 38:10 – think an evil thought Zec 8:17 – let Mat 15:19 – out

Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge