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Proverbs 17:19

NETBible	The one who loves a quarrel loves transgression;¹ whoever builds his gate high seeks destruction.²
NIV © biblegateway Pro 17:19	He who loves a quarrel loves sin; he who builds a high gate invites destruction.
NASB © biblegateway Pro 17:19	He who loves transgression loves strife; He who raises his door seeks destruction.
NLT © biblegateway Pro 17:19	Anyone who loves to quarrel loves sin; anyone who speaks boastfully invites disaster.
MSG © biblegateway Pro 17:19	The person who courts sin, marries trouble; build a wall, invite a burglar.
BBE © SABDAweb Pro 17:19	The lover of fighting is a lover of sin: he who makes high his doorway is looking for destruction.
NRSV © bibleoremus Pro 17:19	One who loves transgression loves strife; one who builds a high threshold invites broken bones.
NKJV © biblegateway Pro 17:19	He who loves transgression loves strife, And he who exalts his gate seeks destruction.
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KJV	He loveth <0157> (8802) transgression <06588> that loveth <0157> (8802) strife <04683>_: [and] he that exalteth <01361> (8688) his gate <06607> seeketh <01245> (8764) destruction <07667>_.
NASB © biblegateway Pro 17:19	He who loves <0157> transgression <06588> loves <0157> strife <04683> ; He who raises <01361> his door <06607> seeks <01245> destruction <07667> .
LXXM	filamarthmwn {A-NSM} cairei <5463> V-PAI-3S macaiv <3163> N-DPF
NET [draft] ITL	The one who loves <0157> a quarrel <04683> loves <0157> transgression <06588> ; whoever builds <01361> his gate <06607> high seeks <01245> destruction <07667> .
HEBREW	rbs <07667> sqbm <01245> wxtp <06607> hybgm <01361> hum <04683> bha <0157> esp <06588> bha (17:19) <0157>

NETBible

The one who loves a quarrel loves transgression;¹ whoever builds his gate high seeks destruction.²

NET Notes

¹tn Heb “the one who loves transgression the one who loves a quarrel.” There is some ambiguity in the first line. The meaning would not differ greatly if either were taken as the subject; but the parallelism suggests that the proverb is about a quarrelsome and arrogant person who loves sin and invites destruction.

²tn Some have taken this second line literally and interpreted it to mean he has built a pretentious house. Probably it is meant to be figurative: The gate is the mouth (the figure would be hypocatastasis) and so to make it high is to say lofty things – he brags too much (e.g., 1 Sam 2:3; Prov 18:12; 29:23); cf. NCV, TEV, NLT. C. H. Toy (Proverbs [ICC], 348) wishes to emend פִּתְחוֹ (pitkho, “his gate”) to פִּיו (piv, “his mouth”), but that is unnecessary since the idea can be obtained by interpretation.