Proverbs 20:6
A man is valuable, and a merciful man precious: but it is hard to find a faithful man.
Brenton Septuagint
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 a man's heart is deep water; but a prudent man will draw it out.
7He that walks blameless in justice, shall leave his children blessed.
Cross References
Psalms 12:1For the end, a Psalm of David.
Proverbs 25:14As winds and clouds and rains are most evident objects, so is he that boasts of a false gift.
Ecclesiastes 7:28which my soul sought after, but I found not: for I have found one man of a thousand; but a woman in all these I have not found.
Micah 7:1Alas for me! for I am become as one gathering straw in harvest, and as one gathering grape-gleanings in the vintage, when there is no cluster for me to eat the first-ripe fruit: alas my soul!
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 →