Keil & Delitzsch, on Prov 16:5

“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.”

“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 Pro 15:9, Pro 15:26. גּבהּ is a metaplastic connecting form of גּבהּ; on the contrary, גּבהּ, Sa1 16:7; Psa 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, Pro 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.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.