Proverbs 3:32
in Proverbs 3for the LORD detests the perverse, but He is a friend to the upright.
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ASV
For the perverse is an abomination to Jehovah; But his friendship is with the upright.
KJV
For the froward is abomination to the Lord: but his secret is with the righteous.
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This verse in Proverbs 3
Commentary
8 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
Do not envy a violent man
on Proverbs 3:31-32
“Do not envy a violent man or choose any of his ways” warns against the oldest temptation, that the violent man appears to prosper. The verse closes on the opposite fellowship, “He is a friend to the upright,” the chapter's answer to envy before it forms.
This site's exposition
He is a friend to the upright
The verse gives the reason to refuse the envy of verse 31. Power draws every eye, and the violent man seems to hold it. Detests translates to'evah, the word Deuteronomy uses for idolatry, and friend translates sod, the close counsel the LORD shares at Psalm 25:14.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church1 voice
"For the Lord detests the perverse man." The Lord detests every mocker. Indeed, every mocker, because a mocker either despises carrying out the words of God which he knows, or distorts them by understanding and teaching them perversely. A mocker is also one who despises …
The Puritans and the Awakening4 voices
Abomination - Therefore sooner or later he must be miserable. The righteous - They are God's friends, to whom he imparts the favours and comforts to which other men are strangers.
For the froward is abomination to the Lord,....
The froward sinners, who are continually going from-ward him, whose lives are a perverse contradiction to his will, are abomination to the Lord. He that hates nothing that he has made yet abhors those who have thus marred themselves; they are not only abominable in his sight, but an abomination.
5 Trust in the L ORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. We are here taught to live a life of communion with God; and without controversy great is this mystery of godliness, and of great consequence to us, and, as is here shown, will be of unspeakable advantage.
1 more voice on this verse
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
But his secret - סודו sodo, his secret assembly; godly people meet there, and God dwells there.
The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| כִּ֤י | ki | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| תוֹעֲבַ֣ת | toavat | [is] [the] abomination of | H8441 → | 117 times |
| יְהוָ֣ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| נָל֑וֹז | naloz | a crooked [person] | H3868 → | 6 times |
| וְֽאֶת־ | veet | and [is] with | H854 → | 929 times |
| יְשָׁרִ֥ים | yesharim | upright [people] | H3477 → | 119 times |
| סוֹדֽוֹ׃ | sodo | intimacy his | H5475 → | 21 times |
כִּ֤יfor
kiH3588 →4482 times
תוֹעֲבַ֣ת[is] [the] abomination of
toavatH8441 →117 times
יְהוָ֣הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
נָל֑וֹזa crooked [person]
nalozH3868 →6 times
וְֽאֶת־and [is] with
veetH854 →929 times
יְשָׁרִ֥יםupright [people]
yesharimH3477 →119 times
סוֹדֽוֹ׃intimacy his
sodoH5475 →21 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
John 15:15No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have…
it leads to
- Psalms 25:14
The LORD confides in those who fear Him, and reveals His covenant to them.
- 1 Corinthians 2:9–12
Rather, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart has imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him.”
- Matthew 13:11
He replied, “The knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.
- James 2:23
And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called a friend of God.
- Colossians 1:26
the mystery that was hidden for ages and generations but is now revealed to His saints.
- Psalms 25:14
Through
Psalms 25:14The LORD confides in those who fear Him, and reveals His covenant to them.
it leads to
- John 15:15
No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have…
- John 14:21–23
Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
- John 7:17
If anyone desires to do His will, he will know whether My teaching is from God or whether I speak on My own.
- John 15:15
Where this verse is studied
About Proverbs
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Bede, Commentary on Proverbs; Charles Bridges, An Exposition of the Book of Proverbs; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.