Proverbs 20:6
Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness, but a faithful man who can find?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
In Context
5Purpose in the heart of man is deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.
7A righteous man who walks in his integrity, blessed are his sons after him.
Cross References
Psalms 12:1Help, LORD, for the holy man ceases, for the faithful fail from among the sons of men.
Proverbs 25:14Clouds and wind without rain, [is] he who boasts himself of his gifts falsely.
Ecclesiastes 7:28which my soul still seeks, but I have not found: among a thousand I have found one man, but among all those I have not found a woman.
Micah 7:1Woe is me! For I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grape gleanings of the vintage. There is no cluster to eat. My soul desires the first ripe fig.
Matthew 6:2When therefore thou do charity, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may have glory by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward.
Luke 18:11Having stood by himself, the Pharisee prayed these things: God, I thank thee that I am not as the rest of men, predatory, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 20:6
5 Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out. A man's wisdom is here said to be of use to him for the pumping of other people, and diving into them, 1. To get the knowledge of them. Though men's counsels and designs are ever so carefully concealed by them, so that they are as deep water which one cannot fathom, yet there are those who by sly insinuations, and questions that seem foreign, will get out of them both what they have done and what they intend to do. Those… Read the whole commentary →