Proverbs 26:25
When his voice is gracious do not trust in him, || For seven abominations [are] in his heart.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart.
In Context
24A hater pretends by his lips, || And he places deceit in his heart,
26Hatred is covered by deceit, || Its wickedness is revealed in an assembly.
Cross References
Nehemiah 6:2that Sanballat sends, also Geshem, to me, saying, “Come and we meet together in the villages, in the Valley of Ono”; and they are thinking to do to me evil.
Psalms 28:3Do not draw me with the wicked, || And with workers of iniquity, || Speaking peace with their neighbors, || And evil in their heart.
Jeremiah 9:2Who gives me in a wilderness || A lodging-place for travelers? And I leave my people, and go from them, || For all of them [are] adulterers, || An assembly of treacherous ones.
Micah 7:5Do not believe in a friend, || Do not trust in a leader, || From her who is lying in your bosom keep the openings of your mouth.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 26:25-27
24 He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him; 25 When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart. 26 Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shewed before the whole congregation. There is cause to complain, not only of the want of sincerity in men's profession of friendship, and that they do not love so well as they pretend nor will serve their friends so much as they promise, but, which is much worse, of wicked designs in the… Read the whole commentary →