Proverbs 13:5
The just shall hate a lying word: but the wicked confoundeth, and shall be confounded.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.
In Context
4The sluggard willeth and willeth not: but the soul of them that work, shall be made fat.
6Justice keepeth the way of the innocent: but wickedness overthroweth 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 beggary, nor riches: give me only the necessaries of life:
Ezekiel 20:43And there you shall remember your ways, and all your wicked doings with which you have been defiled; and you shall be displeased with yourselves in your own sight, for all your wicked deeds which you committed.
Daniel 12:2And many of those that sleep in the dust of the earth, shall awake: some unto life everlasting, and others unto reproach, to see it always.
Ephesians 4:25Wherefore putting away lying, speak ;ye the truth every man with his neighbour; for we are members one of 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 →