OLD TESTAMENT

Proverbs 21:4

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A high look and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, is sin.

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Verse 4. Heart. Or when it is proud, it causes the eyes to appear so too. Calmet.—Lamp. Prot. “ploughing of the wicked is sin.” When it is done with a bad motive, out of pride. Hebrew “the haughtiness of the eyes, and the enlarging of the heart, are the labour (“tillage.” Mont. “thought.” Pagn.) of the wicked; yea, sin.” Bible.—Those things are their employment, and their sin. Calmet.—Septuagint and Vulg. may also mean, “sin is the lamp and exultation of the wicked.” Bible.

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