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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comKeil and Delitzsch Commentary - Proverbs 19:9 - 19:9
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The group of proverbs (Pro 19:9-16) now following begins and closes in the same way as the preceding.
9 A lying witness doth not remain unpunished,
And one who breathes out lies perisheth,
or goeth to ruin, for אָבַד (R. בד, to divide, separate) signifies to lose oneself in the place of the separated, the dead (Arab. in the infinite). In Pro 19:5, instead of this ἀπολεῖται (lxx), the negative οὐ σωθήσεται is used, or as the lxx there more accurately renders it, οὐ διαφεύξεται.