Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.

Every proud man is an abomination to the Lord: though hand should be joined to hand, he is not innocent. The beginning of a good way is to do justice; and this is more acceptable with God, than to offer sacrifices.

Every proud heart is an abomination to Jehovah: hand for hand, he shall not be held innocent.

An abomination to Jehovah is every proud one of heart, Hand to hand he is not acquitted.

Everyone who has pride in his heart is disgusting to the Lord: he will certainly not go free from punishment.

Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD; My hand upon it! he shall not be unpunished.

All the arrogant are an abomination to the Lord. Even if hand will be joined to hand, he is not innocent. The beginning of a good way is to do justice. And this is more acceptable with God than to immolate sacrifices.

See the marginal reference note.

Though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished - The day of wrath shall come on the wicked, whatever means he may take to avoid it. See Proverbs 11:21.

Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord,.... Though he may dissemble his pride, and not discover it in his looks, by his words and gestures; yet the Lord sees and knows the heart, the naughtiness of it, and the pride that is in it: and only a proud look, but a proud heart, is abominable to him: everyone that is so arrogant as to arraign the decrees of God, and quarrel with him about them, to whom the apostle says, "Nay, but, O man", O proud vain man, "who art thou, that repliest against God?" Romans 9:19; every proud Pharisee, that trusts in himself that he is righteous, and despises others, that justifies himself before men, is an abomination in the sight of God, Luke 18:9; particularly antichrist, who has not only a proud look, a look more stout than his fellows, but a proud heart; exalts himself above all that is called God; and not only speaks big words against the most High, but has it in his heart to change times and laws; and proudly imagines he shall always continue in his grandeur and prosperity, Daniel 7:25;
though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished; though he endeavours with both hands, with all his might and main, to secure himself and prevent his ruin, he shall not be able to do it; though he enters into confederacy with, and calls in the kings of the earth to his assistance, it will be of no avail, both he and they shall be destroyed; or out of hand, immediately, his destruction will come upon him, Revelation 16:14; See Gill on Proverbs 11:21; The Targum is,
"from evil he shall not be cleared;''
and the Syriac version,
"he that stretcheth out his hand against his neighbour shall not be cleared from evil.''

Though sinners strengthen themselves and one another, they shall not escape God's judgments.

(Compare Proverbs 3:32).

Here follow three proverbs of divine punishment, expiatio [Vershnung] and reconciliatio [Vershnung].
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 Proverbs 15:9, Proverbs 15:26. גּבהּ is a metaplastic connecting form of גּבהּ; on the contrary, גּבהּ, 1-Samuel 16:7; Psalm 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, Proverbs 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.