19He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.
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Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. …
And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light. …
If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19)Note, 1. Those that are quarrelsome involve themselves in a great deal of guilt: He that loves strife , that in his worldly business loves to go to law, in religion loves controversies, and in common conversation loves to thwart and fall out, that is never well but when he is in the fire, he loves transgression ; for a great deal of sin attends that sin, and the way of it is down-hill. He pretends…
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