Proverbs 20:6
Many men are called merciful: but who shall find a faithful man?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
In Context
5Counsel in the heart of a man is like deep water: but a wise man will draw it out.
7The just that walketh in his simplicity, shall leave behind him blessed children.
Cross References
Psalms 12:1Unto the end; for the octave, a psalm for David.
Proverbs 25:14As clouds, and wind, when no rain followeth, so is the man that boasteth, and doth not fulfil his promises.
Ecclesiastes 7:28Lo this have I found, said Ecclesiastes, weighing one thing after another, that I might find out the account,
Micah 7:1Woe is me, for I am become as one that gleaneth in autumn the grapes of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat, my soul desired the firstripe figs.
Matthew 6:2Therefore when thou dost an almsdeed, sound not a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be honoured by men. Amen I say to you, they have received their reward.
Luke 18:11The Pharisee standing, prayed thus with himself: O God, I give thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, as also is this publican.
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 →