Proverbs 20:6
Many people tell you they're loyal, but can you find someone really trustworthy?
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
In Context
7Good people live honestly; how happy are their children if they follow them.
Cross References
Psalms 12:1Help, Lord, for all the good people have gone! Those who trust in you have disappeared from among the people on earth.
Proverbs 25:14Someone who boasts about a gift they never give is like cloud and wind without rain.
Ecclesiastes 7:28Although I really searched, I didn't find what I was looking for. People say, “I found one man among a thousand, but not one woman.”
Micah 7:1I'm totally miserable! I've become like someone trying to glean summer fruit after the grape harvest is over. I can't find any grapes to eat, and there are no early figs that I love.
Matthew 6:2When you give to the poor, don't be like the hypocrites who blow their own trumpets to announce what they're doing in the synagogues and in the streets so that people will praise them. I tell you the truth: they already have their reward.
Luke 18:11The Pharisee stood up and prayed to himself, ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—cheats, criminals, 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 →