Proverbs 13:5
The just shall detest a lying word. But the impious confound and will be confounded.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.
In Context
4The lazy one is willing and then not willing. But the soul of he who labors shall be made fat.
6Justice guards the way of the innocent. But impiety undermines the sinner.
Cross References
Proverbs 6:17haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
Proverbs 30:8Remove, far from me, vanity and lying words. Give me neither begging, nor wealth. Apportion to me only the necessities of my life,
Ezekiel 20:43And there you shall remember your ways and all your wickedness, by which you have been defiled. And you will be displeased with yourselves in your own sight, over all your evil deeds which you did.
Daniel 12:2And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awaken: some to everlasting life, and others to a reproach that they will always see.
Ephesians 4:25Because of this, setting aside lying, speak the truth, each one with his neighbor. For we are all part of one another.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 13:5
4 The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat. Here is, 1. The misery and shame of the slothful. See how foolish and absurd they are; they desire the gains which the diligent get, but they hate the pains which the diligent take; they covet every thing that is to be coveted, but will do nothing that is to be done; and therefore it follows, They have nothing; for he that will not labour let him hunger, and let him not eat, 2 Thess. iii. 10 . The desire of the… Read the whole commentary →