Proverbs Chapter 3 verse 32 Holy Bible

ASV Proverbs 3:32

For the perverse is an abomination to Jehovah; But his friendship is with the upright.
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BBE Proverbs 3:32

For the wrong-hearted man is hated by the Lord, but he is a friend to the upright.
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DARBY Proverbs 3:32

For the perverse is an abomination to Jehovah; but his secret is with the upright.
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KJV Proverbs 3:32

For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.
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WEB Proverbs 3:32

For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, But his friendship is with the upright.
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YLT Proverbs 3:32

For an abomination to Jehovah `is' the perverted, And with the upright `is' His secret counsel.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 32. - This verse gives the reason for the previous warning. The oppressor is here included under the more general term, "the froward." The froward; naloz, hiph. participle from luz, "to bend aside," and hence a perverted or wicked man, one who turns aside from the way of uprightness, a transgressor of the Law (cf. LXX., παράνομος); and so the opposite of "the righteous," y'sharim, "the upright," those who pursue the path of justness, or the straightforward. Abomination (toevah); i.e. an abhorrence, something which, being impure and unclean (cf. LXX., ἀκάθαρτος), is especially abhorrent to Jehovah. In some passages it is connected with idolatry, as in 1 Kings 14:24 and 2 Kings 23:13, but is never used in this sense in the Proverbs, where it occurs about twenty times (see Proverbs 28:9; Proverbs 21:27; Proverbs 11:1, 20, etc.). The passage shows that prosperity and worldly success are not always a true measure of Divine favour. His secret (sodo); Vulgate, sermocinatio. Here sod probably means "familiar intercourse," as in Job 29:4 and Psalm 25:14; and hence the special favour with which Jehovah regards the upright, by revealing to them what he conceals item others, or his friendship (compare what our Lord says in John 15:14, 15). Dathe translates "probis vero est familiaris." Gesenius says sod properly means "a couch," or triclinium on which people recline; but Delitzsch derives it from the root sod, "to be firm," "compressed," and states that it therefore means properly "a being together, or sitting together." The LXX. eontinues the "froward man" (παράνομος) as the subject, and renders, "Every transgressor is impure before God, and does not sit together with (οὐ συνεδριάζει) the just."

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(32) His secret is with the righteous--i.e., He holds confidential intercourse with them. (Comp. Psalm 25:14, and the reward of love and obedience to Christ, that both Father and Son will "come" unto the believer, and "make their abode with him," through the indwelling Spirit, John 14:23.)