Proverbs 20:6
Most men will proclaim every one his own kindness; but who can find a faithful man?
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
In Context
5Like deep water is counsel in the heart of man; but the man of understanding will draw it out.
7The righteous walketh in his integrity: happy will be his children after him.
Cross References
Psalms 12:1“To the chief musician upon Sheminith, a psalm of David.” (12:2) Help, O Lord; for the pious have ceased to be; for the truthful have failed from among the children of men.
Proverbs 25:14Like clouds and wind without rain, so is a man that vaunteth falsely of a gift.
Ecclesiastes 7:28What my soul constantly sought, but I found it not; one man among a thousand did I find; but a woman among all these did I not find.
Micah 7:1Woe is me! for I am as in the gathering of the summer-fruits, as in the grape-gleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat, no first-ripe fruit for which my soul longeth.
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 →