Proverbs 20:6
A multitude of men each proclaim his kindness, || And a man of steadfastness who finds?
Literal Standard Version
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 a man [is] deep water, || And a man of understanding draws it up.
7The righteous is habitually walking in his integrity, || O the blessedness of his sons after him!
Cross References
Psalms 12:1TO THE OVERSEER. ON THE EIGHTH. A PSALM OF DAVID. Save, YHWH, for the saintly has failed, || For the steadfast have ceased || From the sons of men:
Proverbs 25:14Clouds and wind without rain, || [Is] a man boasting himself in a false gift.
Ecclesiastes 7:28(that still my soul had sought, and I had not found), || One man, a teacher, I have found, and a woman among all these I have not found.
Micah 7:1My woe [is] to me, || For I have been as gatherings of summer-fruit, || As gleanings of harvest, || There is no cluster to eat, || The first-ripe fruit has my soul desired.
Matthew 6:2whenever, therefore, you may do kindness, you may not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do, in the synagogues, and in the streets, that they may have glory from men; truly I say to you, they have their reward!
Luke 18:11the Pharisee having stood by himself, thus prayed: God, I thank You that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as 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 →