Proverbs 6:17

8 songs meet this passage

• “Put my other hoes down, you get your ass beat”

  P.I.M.P. · 50 Cent

  strains against Proverbs 6:17

  Scripture names violence and cruelty toward others as something God actively hates, not a badge of status.

• “Tell the rambler, the gambler, the back biter”

  God's Gonna Cut You Down · Johnny Cash

  resonates with Proverbs 6:16-19

  The list of offenders mirrors Proverbs' catalog of things God hates, especially the lying tongue and the sower of discord.

• “the lie becomes the truth”

  Billie Jean · Michael Jackson

  strains against Proverbs 6:16-19

  The song fears a lie hardening into accepted truth; Scripture names false witness itself, not just its consequences, as something God detests.

• “Treating people just like pawns in chess”

  War Pigs · Black Sabbath

  resonates with Proverbs 6:16-19

  Scheming hearts that shed innocent blood are named among things God hates, echoing the song's disgust at leaders treating lives as expendable.

• “Show me how to lie”

  You're Gonna Go Far, Kid · The Offspring

  strains against Proverbs 6:16-19

  The song opens by asking to be taught deceit, the very thing Proverbs names as something the Lord hates.

• “Blame it on a black man, what the heck”

  Wildside · Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch

  strains against Proverbs 6:16-19

  Charles's scheme embodies several things the proverb names as detestable: lying, shedding innocent blood, and sowing discord through false accusation.

• Return of the Mack · Mark Morrison

  strains against Proverbs 6:16-19

  The song centers on being wronged by deceit, but responds with triumphant self-assertion rather than addressing the deeper harm of broken trust.

• Heard It All Before · Sunshine Anderson

  strains against Proverbs 6:16-19

  The cheating partner's excuses and lies are exactly the deceit Scripture names as detestable to God; the song calls this out plainly.