Proverbs 20:6
Rav adam will proclaim every one his own chesed, 1 but an ish emunim (faithful man, loyal man) who can find one? 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
In Context
7The tzaddik walketh in his tohm (integrity, guilelessness); 1 his banim after him are blessed. 1
Cross References
Psalms 12:1(For the one directing. According to the Sheminit. Mizmor Dovid) 1
Proverbs 25:14He who boasteth falsely of giving 1 is like clouds and ruach (wind) without geshem (rain). 1
Ecclesiastes 7:28Which yet my nefesh seeketh, but I have not found; one man among a thousand have I found, but a woman among all those have I not found.
Micah 7:1Woe is me! For I am become like a gathering of kayitz (summer fruit), 1 like a gleaning of the vintage; 1 there is no grape cluster to eat, 1 none of the early figs my nefesh desired. 1
Matthew 6:2Therefore, whenever you contribute tzedakah, don't blow the shofar before you, as the tzevuim (hypocrites) do in the shuls and in the streets, in order that they may receive kavod (glory) from Bnei Adam. Omein, truly I say to you, they have their sachar (reward).
Luke 18:11The Parush was standing by himself, shawkling (ritual swaying while davening), and his tefillah went like this: Adonoi, Modeh Ani that I am not like other men, swindlers, resha'im, menaafim, or even this moches.
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 →