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Proverbs 8:13
To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate arrogant pride, evil conduct, and perverse speech.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Personified Wisdom speaks in the first person, continuing her self-presentation to a general audience of young people (Proverbs 8:1–36).
The words — גֵּאָה (gē'āh, "pride") and גָּאוֹן (gā'ōn, "arrogance") are near-synonyms from the same root, stacked for deliberate intensification.
The thread — Psalms 97:10 commands the same hatred of evil for those who love the LORD; Proverbs 16:6 links the fear of the LORD to turning aside from evil; 1 Samuel 2:3 warns against arrogance from the mouth.
Why it lands — The verse makes fearing God and hating evil functionally identical, so a person who claims the former but tolerates the latter fails the test. It names the specific targets: arrogance, evil conduct, and perverse speech.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
Cross-references
- Psalms 97:10 Hate evil, O you who love the LORD! He preserves the souls of His saints; He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
- Proverbs 16:6 By loving devotion and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the LORD one turns aside from evil.
- 1 Samuel 2:3 Do not boast so proudly, or let arrogance come from your mouth, for the LORD is a God who knows, and by Him actions are weighed.
- Proverbs 4:24 Put away deception from your mouth; keep your lips from perverse speech.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:22 Abstain from every form of evil.
- Amos 5:15 Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
- 1 Peter 5:5 Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
- Psalms 119:128 Therefore I admire all Your precepts and hate every false way.
- Psalms 5:4 For You are not a God who delights in wickedness; no evil can dwell with You.
- Proverbs 6:12 A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth,