Proverbs 20:6
Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness; but a faithful man who can find?
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
7He that walketh in his integrity as a just man, happy are his children after him.
Cross References
Psalms 12:1(12-1) For the Leader; on the Sheminith. A Psalm of David. (12-2) Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.
Proverbs 25:14As vapours and wind without rain, so is he that boasteth himself of a false gift.
Ecclesiastes 7:28which yet my soul sought, but I found not; one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
Micah 7:1Woe is me! for I am as the last of the summer fruits, as the grape gleanings of the vintage; there is no cluster to eat; nor first-ripe fig which my soul desireth.
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 →