Proverbs 6:17

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Eyes high -- tongues false -- And hands shedding 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 An abomination to Jehovah `are' lying lips, And stedfast doers `are' his delight.
• Ps 101:5 : 5 Whoso slandereth in secret his neighbour, Him I cut off, The high of eyes and proud of heart, him I endure not.
• Isa 1:15 : 15 And in your spreading forth your hands, I hide mine eyes from you, Also when ye increase prayer, I do not hear, Your hands of blood have been full.
• Ps 120:2-3 : 2 O Jehovah, deliver my soul from a lying lip, From a deceitful tongue! 3 What doth He give to thee? And what doth He add to thee? O deceitful tongue!
• Ps 18:27 : 27 For Thou a poor people savest, And the eyes of the high causest to fall.
• Deut 19:10 : 10 and innocent blood is not shed in the midst of thy land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee -- an inheritance, and there hath been upon thee blood.
• Ps 5:6 : 6 Thou destroyest those speaking lies, A man of blood and deceit Jehovah doth abominate.
• Isa 2:11 : 11 The haughty eyes of man have been humbled, And bowed down hath been the loftiness of men, And set on high hath Jehovah alone been in that day.
• Isa 3:9 : 9 The appearance of their faces witnessed against them, And their sin, as Sodom, they declared, They have not hidden! Wo to their soul, For they have done to themselves evil.
• Isa 3:16 : 16 `Because that daughters of Zion have been haughty, And they walk stretching out the neck, And deceiving `with' the eyes, Walking and mincing they go, And with their feet they make a tinkling,
• Prov 14:5 : 5 A faithful witness lieth not, And a false witness breatheth out lies.
• Prov 21:4 : 4 Loftiness of eyes, and breadth of heart, Tillage of the wicked `is' sin.
• Prov 26:28 : 28 A lying tongue hateth its bruised ones, And a flattering mouth worketh an overthrow!
• Prov 30:13 : 13 A generation -- how high are their eyes, Yea, their eyelids are lifted up.
• Prov 1:11 : 11 If they say, `Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,
• Prov 17:7 : 7 Not comely for a fool is a lip of excellency, Much less for a noble a lip of falsehood.
• Isa 59:3-7 : 3 For your hands have been polluted with blood, And your fingers with iniquity, Your lips have spoken falsehood, Your tongue perverseness doth mutter. 4 There is none calling in righteousness, And there is none pleading in faithfulness, Trusting on emptiness, and speaking falsehood, Conceiving perverseness, and bearing iniquity. 5 Eggs of a viper they have hatched, And webs of a spider they weave, Whoso is eating their eggs doth die, And the crushed hatcheth a viper. 6 Their webs become not a garment, Nor do they cover themselves with their works, Their works `are' works of iniquity, And a deed of violence `is' in their hands. 7 Their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed innocent blood, Their thoughts `are' thoughts of iniquity, Spoiling and destruction `are' in their highways.
• Hos 4:1-2 : 1 `Hear a word of Jehovah, sons of Israel, For a strife `is' to Jehovah with inhabitants of the land, For there is no truth, nor kindness, Nor knowledge of God, in the land, 2 Swearing, and lying, and murdering, And stealing, and committing adultery -- have increased, And blood against blood hath touched.
• John 8:44 : 44 `Ye are of a father -- the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar -- also his father.
• 1 Pet 5:5 : 5 In like manner, ye younger, be subject to elders, and all to one another subjecting yourselves; with humble-mindedness clothe yourselves, because God the proud doth resist, but to the humble He doth give grace;
• Rev 22:15 : 15 and without `are' the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the whoremongers, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one who is loving and is doing a lie.
• Ps 10:4 : 4 The wicked according to the height of his face, inquireth not. `God is not!' `are' all his devices.
• Deut 27:25 : 25 `Cursed `is' he who is taking a bribe to smite a person, innocent blood, -- and all the people have said, Amen.
• 2 Kgs 24:4 : 4 and also the innocent blood that he hath shed, and he filleth Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Jehovah was not willing to forgive.
• Ps 31:18 : 18 Let lips of falsehood become dumb, That are speaking against the righteous, Ancient sayings, in pride and contempt.
• Ps 73:6-8 : 6 Therefore hath pride encircled them, Violence covereth them as a dress. 7 Their eye hath come out from fat. The imaginations of the heart transgressed; 8 They do corruptly, And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, From on high they speak.
• Ps 131:1 : 1 A Song of the Ascents, by David. Jehovah, my heart hath not been haughty, Nor have mine eyes been high, Nor have I walked in great things, And in things too wonderful for me.