Proverbs 8:13 {14}
Good News Translation
To honor the LORD is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil ways and false words.

New Revised Standard Version
The fear of the LORD is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.

Contemporary English Version
If you respect the LORD, you will hate evil. I hate pride and conceit and deceitful lies.

New American Bible
[The fear of the LORD is hatred of evil;] Pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth I hate.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Counsel and equity is mine, prudence is mine, strength is mine.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Counsel and equity is mine, prudence is mine, strength is mine.

the fear

Proverbs 16:6 By mercy and truth iniquity is redeemed; and by the fear of the Lord men depart from evil.

Psalm 97:10 You that love the Lord, hate evil: the Lord preserveth the souls of his saints, he will deliver them out of the hand of the sinner.

Psalm 101:3 I will not set before my eyes any unjust thing: I hated the workers of iniquities.

Psalm 119:104,128 By thy commandments I have had understanding: therefore have I hated every way of iniquity. . . .

Amos 5:15 Hate evil, and love good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be the Lord the God of hosts may have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.

Romans 12:9 Let love be without dissimulation. Hating that which is evil, cleaving to that which is good,

1 Thessalonians 5:22 From all appearance of evil refrain yourselves.

2 Timothy 2:19 But the sure foundation of God standeth firm, having this seal: the Lord knoweth who are his; and let every one depart from iniquity who nameth the name of the Lord.

pride

Proverbs 6:16-19 Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, . . .

1 Samuel 2:3 Do not multiply to speak lofty things, boasting: let old matters depart from your mouth: for the Lord is a God of all knowledge, and to him are thoughts prepared.

Psalm 5:4,5 In the morning I will stand before thee, and I will see: because thou art not a God that willest iniquity. . . .

Psalm 138:6 For the Lord is high, and looketh on the low: and the high he knoweth afar off.

Zechariah 8:17 And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his friend: and love not a false oath: for all these are the things that I hate, saith the Lord.

1 Peter 5:5 In like manner, ye young men, be subject to the ancients. And do you all insinuate humility one to another: for God resisteth the proud, but to the humble he giveth grace.

the froward

Proverbs 4:24 Let thy eyes look straight on, and let thy eyelids go before thy steps.

Proverbs 6:12 He winketh with the eyes, presseth with the foot, speaketh with the finger.

Proverbs 10:31 The lips of the just consider what is acceptable: and the mouth of the wicked uttereth perverse things.

Context
The Excellence of Wisdom
12The fear of the Lord hateth evil; I hate arrogance, and pride, and every wicked way, and a mouth with a double tongue. 13Counsel and equity is mine, prudence is mine, strength is mine.14By me kings reign, and lawgivers decree just things.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:3
Do not multiply to speak lofty things, boasting: let old matters depart from your mouth: for the Lord is a God of all knowledge, and to him are thoughts prepared.

Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Hus, whose name was Job, and that man was simple and upright, and fearing God, and avoiding evil.

Psalm 97:10
You that love the Lord, hate evil: the Lord preserveth the souls of his saints, he will deliver them out of the hand of the sinner.

Proverbs 3:7
For it shall be health to thy navel, and moistening to thy bones.

Proverbs 6:12
He winketh with the eyes, presseth with the foot, speaketh with the finger.

Proverbs 15:9
The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord: he that followeth justice is beloved by him.

Proverbs 16:6
By mercy and truth iniquity is redeemed; and by the fear of the Lord men depart from evil.

Proverbs 16:18
Pride goeth before destruction: and the spirit is lifted up before a fall.

Isaiah 13:11
And I will visit the evils of the world, and against the wicked for their iniquity: and I will make the pride of infidels to cease, and will bring down the arrogancy of the mighty.

Proverbs 8:12
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