Proverbs 6:17

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עֵינַ֣יִם רָ֭מוֹת לְשׁ֣וֹן שָׁ֑קֶר וְ֝יָדַ֗יִם שֹׁפְכ֥וֹת דָּם־נָקִֽי׃

Transliteration

ʿênayim rāmôt ləšôn šāqer and-yādayim šōpḵôt dām-nāqî

Grammar Details

• *ʿênayim*: noun, feminine dual - eyes
• *rāmôt*: adjective, feminine plural - haughty/lofty
• *ləšôn*: noun, feminine singular construct - tongue of
• *šāqer*: noun, masculine singular - falsehood/lie
• *yādayim*: noun, feminine dual - hands
• *šōpḵôt*: verb, qal participle feminine plural - pouring out/shedding
• *dām*: noun, masculine singular construct - blood of
• *nāqî*: adjective, masculine singular - innocent

Word Meanings

• *rāmôt*: haughty/lofty/proud
• *šāqer*: falsehood/lie/deception
• *šōpḵôt*: pouring out/shedding/spilling

Referenced Verses

• Prov 12:22 : 22 The LORD abhors a person who lies, but those who deal truthfully are his delight.
• Ps 101:5 : 5 I will destroy anyone who slanders his neighbor in secret. I will not tolerate anyone who has a haughty demeanor and an arrogant attitude.
• Isa 1:15 : 15 When you spread out your hands in prayer, I look the other way; when you offer your many prayers, I do not listen, because your hands are covered with blood.
• Ps 120:2-3 : 2 I said,“O LORD, rescue me from those who lie with their lips and those who deceive with their tongue. 3 How will he severely punish you, you deceptive talker?
• Ps 18:27 : 27 For you deliver oppressed people, but you bring down those who have a proud look.
• Deut 19:10 : 10 You must not shed innocent blood in your land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty.
• Ps 5:6 : 6 You destroy liars; the LORD despises violent and deceitful people.
• Isa 2:11 : 11 Proud men will be brought low, arrogant men will be humiliated; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.
• Isa 3:9 : 9 The look on their faces testifies to their guilt; like the people of Sodom they openly boast of their sin. Woe to them! For they bring disaster on themselves.
• Isa 3:16 : 16 Washing Away Impurity The LORD says,“The women of Zion are proud. They walk with their heads high and flirt with their eyes. They skip along and the jewelry on their ankles jingles.
• Prov 14:5 : 5 A truthful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies.
• Prov 21:4 : 4 Haughty eyes and a proud heart– what the wicked cultivate is sin.
• Prov 26:28 : 28 A lying tongue hates those crushed by it, and a flattering mouth works ruin.
• Prov 30:13 : 13 There is a generation whose eyes are so lofty, and whose eyelids are lifted up disdainfully.
• Prov 1:11 : 11 If they say,“Come with us! We will lie in wait to shed blood; we will ambush an innocent person capriciously.
• Prov 17:7 : 7 Excessive speech is not becoming for a fool; how much less are lies for a ruler!
• Isa 59:3-7 : 3 For your hands are stained with blood and your fingers with sin; your lips speak lies, your tongue utters malicious words. 4 No one is concerned about justice; no one sets forth his case truthfully. They depend on false words and tell lies; they conceive of oppression and give birth to sin. 5 They hatch the eggs of a poisonous snake and spin a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die, a poisonous snake is hatched. 6 Their webs cannot be used for clothing; they cannot cover themselves with what they make. Their deeds are sinful; they commit violent crimes. 7 They are eager to do evil, quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful; they crush and destroy.
• Hos 4:1-2 : 1 The Lord’s Covenant Lawsuit against the Nation Israel Listen to the LORD’s message, you Israelites! For the LORD has a covenant lawsuit against the people of Israel. For there is neither faithfulness nor loyalty in the land, nor do they acknowledge God. 2 There is only cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery. They resort to violence and bloodshed.
• John 8:44 : 44 You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
• 1 Pet 5:5 : 5 In the same way, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.
• Rev 22:15 : 15 Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the sexually immoral, and the murderers, and the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood!
• Ps 10:4 : 4 The wicked man is so arrogant he always thinks,“God won’t hold me accountable; he doesn’t care.”
• Deut 27:25 : 25 ‘Cursed is the one who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.’ Then all the people will say,‘Amen!’
• 2 Kgs 24:4 : 4 Because he killed innocent people and stained Jerusalem with their blood, the LORD was unwilling to forgive them.
• Ps 31:18 : 18 May lying lips be silenced– lips that speak defiantly against the innocent with arrogance and contempt!
• Ps 73:6-8 : 6 Arrogance is their necklace, and violence covers them like clothing. 7 Their prosperity causes them to do wrong; their thoughts are sinful. 8 They mock and say evil things; they proudly threaten violence.
• Ps 131:1 : 1 A song of ascents, by David. O LORD, my heart is not proud, nor do I have a haughty look. I do not have great aspirations, or concern myself with things that are beyond me.