Proverbs 20:6
Many a man proclaims his loving devotion, but who can find a trustworthy man?
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
In Context
5The intentions of a man’s heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out.
7The righteous man walks with integrity; blessed are his children after him.
Cross References
Psalms 12:1Help, O LORD, for the godly are no more; the faithful have vanished from among men.
Proverbs 25:14Like clouds and wind without rain is the man who boasts of gifts never given.
Ecclesiastes 7:28While my soul was still searching but not finding, among a thousand I have found one upright man, but among all these I have not found one such woman.
Micah 7:1Woe is me! For I am like one gathering summer fruit at the gleaning of the vineyard; there is no cluster to eat, no early fig that I crave.
Matthew 6:2So when you give to the needy, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.
Luke 18:11The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like the other men—swindlers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.
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 →