Proverbs 13:5
The righteous hates a false word, || And the wicked causes abhorrence, and is confounded.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.
In Context
4The soul of the slothful is desiring, and does not have. And the soul of the diligent is made fat.
6Righteousness keeps him who is perfect in the way, || And wickedness overthrows a sin offering.
Cross References
Psalms 119:163I have hated falsehood, indeed I detest [it], || I have loved Your law.
Proverbs 6:17High eyes, || False tongues, || And hands shedding innocent blood,
Proverbs 30:8Put vanity and a lying word far from me, || Do not give poverty or wealth to me, || Cause me to eat the bread of my portion,
Ezekiel 20:43And you have remembered your ways there, || And all your doings, || In which you have been defiled, || And you have been loathsome in your own faces, || For all your evils that you have done.
Daniel 12:2And the multitude of those sleeping in the dust of the ground awake, some to continuous life, and some to reproaches—to continuous abhorrence.
Ephesians 4:25For this reason, putting away the lying, each speak truth with his neighbor, because we are members of one another;
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 13:5
4 The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat. Here is, 1. The misery and shame of the slothful. See how foolish and absurd they are; they desire the gains which the diligent get, but they hate the pains which the diligent take; they covet every thing that is to be coveted, but will do nothing that is to be done; and therefore it follows, They have nothing; for he that will not labour let him hunger, and let him not eat, 2 Thess. iii. 10 . The desire of the… Read the whole commentary →