King James Version
Proverbs 16:7 in the King James Version says “When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.” — study this verse from Proverbs chapter 16 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.”
Proverbs 16:7 · KJV
Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished. unpunished: Heb. held innocent
By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.
When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“ways”
H1870a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
“When a man's”
H376a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
“to be at peace”
H7999to be safe (in mind, body or estate); figuratively, to be (causatively, make) completed; by implication, to be friendly; by extension, to reciprocate
properly, nearness (used only as a preposition or an adverb), near; hence, generally, with, by, at, among, etc
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