[100] It is the word used in Exod. v. 6 of those who directed the tasks of the Israelites in Egypt.
[101] Prov. vi. 6-8.
[102] Prov. vi. 12-15.
[103] Cf. the proverb xvi. 30—"He that shutteth his eyes, it is to devise froward things: he that compresseth his lips bringeth evil to pass."
[104] Cf. Prov. xx. 14: "It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth."
[105] It is probably assumed that warnings and corrections have been given him in vain—cf. Prov. xxix. 1: "He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck shall suddenly be broken, and that without remedy."
[106] Prov. vi. 16-19.
[107] Prov. xxx. 13. See Lecture [XIII]. for the teaching of the Proverbs on Pride.
[108] Prov. xii. 19.
[109] See Prov. xii. 17; xiv. 5, 25; xix. 5, 9. A crime, it may be remembered, which would be much more common and much more fatal in a primitive state of society, where on the one hand legal procedure was less cautious and less searching, and on the other hand the inward sanctions of truth which Christianity has brought home to the modern conscience were but feebly perceived.