C. F. Keil and Franz Delitzsch on Proverbs 16:5
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Proverbs16:5
Pro 16:5
Here follow three proverbs of divine punishment, expiatio [Versühnung] and reconciliatio [Versöhnung]. 5 An abomination of Jahve is every one who is haughty; The hand for it [assuredly] he remains not unpunished.
Proverbs thus commencing we already had at Pro 15:9, Pro 15:26. גּבהּ is a metaplastic connecting form of גּבהּ; on the contrary, גּבהּ, 1Sa 16:7; Psa 103:11, means being high, as גּבהּ, height; the form underlying גּבהּ is not גּבהּ (as Gesen. and Olshausen write it), but גּבהּ. In 5b, Pro 11:21 is repeated. The translators are perplexed in their rendering of יד ליד. Fleischer: ab aetate in aetatem non (i.e., nullo unquam tempore futuro) impunis erit.
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