Proverbs 21:29
The impious man insolently hardens his face. But whoever is upright corrects his own way.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
A wicked man hardeneth his face: but as for the upright, he directeth his way.
In Context
28A lying witness will perish. An obedient man shall speak of victory.
30There is no wisdom, there is no prudence, there is no counsel, which is against the Lord.
Cross References
Psalms 119:5Woe to me, for my sojourning has been prolonged. I have lived with the inhabitants of Kedar.
Proverbs 4:25Let your eyes look straight ahead, and let your eyelids precede your steps.
Proverbs 11:5The justice of the simple shall direct his way. And the impious will fall in his impiety.
Proverbs 29:1The man who, with a stiff neck, treats the one who corrects him with contempt will be suddenly overwhelmed to his own destruction, and reason shall not follow him.
Jeremiah 3:3For this reason, the rain showers were withheld, and there were no late season rains. You made your face like that of a promiscuous woman; you were not willing to blush.
Jeremiah 8:12They have been confounded because they committed abomination. Or rather, they have not been confounded with shame, for they do not know how to blush. For this reason, they will fall among the fallen. In the time of their visitation, they will fall, says the 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 →