Proverbs 21:29
A wicked man hardens his face, but as for an upright man, he establishes his ways.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
A wicked man hardeneth his face: but as for the upright, he directeth his way.
In Context
28A FALSE witness shall perish, but the man who hears shall speak so as to endure.
30There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against LORD.
Cross References
Psalms 119:5O that my ways were established to observe thy statutes!
Proverbs 4:25Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
Proverbs 11:5The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way, but the wicked man shall fall by his own wickedness.
Proverbs 29:1He who, being often reproved, hardens his neck shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
Jeremiah 3:3Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain. Yet thou have a harlot's forehead; thou refused to be ashamed.
Jeremiah 8:12Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, nor could they blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall. In the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, says LORD.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 21:29
28 A false witness shall perish: but the man that heareth speaketh constantly. Here is, 1. The doom of a false witness. He who, for favour to one side or malice to the other, gives in a false evidence, or makes an affidavit of that which he knows to be false, or at least does not know to be true, if it be discovered, his reputation will be ruined. A man may tell a lie perhaps in his haste; but he that gives a false testimony does it with deliberation and solemnity, and it cannot but be a presumptuous sin, and a… Read the whole commentary →