Proverbs 26:26
Hatred is covered by deceit, || Its wickedness is revealed in an assembly.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shewed before the whole congregation.
In Context
25When his voice is gracious do not trust in him, || For seven abominations [are] in his heart.
27Whoever is digging a pit falls into it, || And the roller of a stone, it turns to him.
Cross References
Genesis 4:8And Cain says to his brother Abel, [[“Let us go into the field”;]] and it comes to pass in their being in the field, that Cain rises up against his brother Abel, and slays him.
1 Samuel 18:21and Saul says, “I give her to him, and she is for a snare to him, and the hand of the Philistines is on him”; and Saul says to David, “By the second—you become my son-in-law today.”
2 Samuel 13:22and Absalom has not spoken with Amnon either evil or good, for Absalom is hating Amnon, because that he humbled his sister Tamar.
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 →