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NASB | Proverbs 16:4 The LORD has made everything for its own purpose, Even the wicked for the day of evil. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Proverbs 16:4 The LORD has made everything for its own purpose, Even the wicked [according to their role] for the day of evil. |
Bible Question: I know that God gave us free will to choose good or evil but where does evil come from? Did God create it,if so why? What made Satan sin in the first place, where did he get the idea from? Knowing many would end up in hell why did he allow evil to exist in the first place? |
Bible Answer: DAW, This may help you to answer in part some of your questions. Proverbs 16:4-5 (KJV) 4 The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil. 5 Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished. Excerpts from John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible: …”It is not the sense of this text, nor of any other passage of Scripture, that God made man to damn him; nor is this to be inferred from the doctrine of predestination: God made man, neither to damn him, nor to save him, but for his own glory; and that is secured, whether in his salvation or damnation; nor did or does God make men wicked; he made man upright, and he has made himself wicked; and, being so, God may justly appoint him to damnation for his wickedness, in doing which he glorifies his justice. "The day of evil", or "evil day", is the day of wrath and ruin, unto which wicked men are reserved by the appointment of God, agreeably to the Targum, Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions. This is true of wicked angels, wicked men, and particularly of that wicked one, the man of sin and son of perdition, antichrist; the word here used is in the singular number.”… …”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?" Rom_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, Luk_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, Dan_7:25;”… http://eword.gospelcom.net/comments/proverbs/gill/proverbs16.htm WOS |