Proverbs 19:5
A false witness is not acquitted, || Whoever breathes out lies is not delivered.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.
In Context
4Wealth adds many friends, || And the poor is separated from his neighbor.
6Many beg the face of the noble, || And all have made friendship to a man of gifts.
Cross References
Exodus 23:1You do not lift up a vain report; you do not put your hand with a wicked man to be a violent witness.
Deuteronomy 19:16When a violent witness rises against a man to testify against him apostasy,
1 Kings 2:9and now, do not acquit him, for you [are] a wise man, and you have known that which you do to him, and have brought down his old age with blood to Sheol.”
Proverbs 6:19A false witness [who] breathes out lies, || And one sending forth contentions between brothers.
Proverbs 19:9A false witness is not acquitted, || And whoever breathes out lies perishes.
Daniel 6:24And the king has spoken, and they have brought those men who had accused Daniel, and to the den of lions they have cast them, they, their sons, and their wives; and they have not come to the lower part of the den until the lions have power over them, and all their bones they have broken small.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 19:5
4 Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour. Here, 1. We may see how strong men's love of money is, that they will love any man, how undeserving soever he be otherwise, if he has but a deal of money and is free with it, so that they may hope to be the better for it. Wealth enables a man to send many presents, make many entertainments, and do many good offices, and so gains him many friends, who pretend to love him, for they flatter him and make their court to him, but really love… Read the whole commentary →