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Proverbs 13:5

Righteous/Honest people hate/detest lies, but what wicked people do ◄is very disgraceful/stinks► [DOU].

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.

In Context

4People who are lazy want things very much, but they will not get anything [HYP]. People who work hard will get all that they want.

6The behavior [PRS] of those who always do what is right will protect them, but sinful behavior will ruin wicked people.

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Cross References

Psalms 119:163I thoroughly hate [DOU] all lies but I love your laws.

Proverbs 6:17People who show by their eyes that they are very proud; people who lie [MTY]; people [SYN] who kill others [SYN] who have done nothing wrong;

Proverbs 30:8Help me never to lie or deceive people and do not cause me to become poor or to become rich. Just give me the food that I need;

Ezekiel 20:43And there in Israel you will remember how you conducted your lives previously, you will remember the actions that caused you to become unacceptable to me, and you will hate/despise yourselves for all the evil things that you have done.

Daniel 12:2Many of those who have died [EUP] will become alive again. Some of them will live eternally with God, and some will be eternally shamed/disgraced in hell.

Ephesians 4:25Therefore, quit lying to one another. Instead, because we all belong to just one group of believers, speak truthfully to each other.

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 13:5

4 The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat. Here is, 1. The misery and shame of the slothful. See how foolish and absurd they are; they desire the gains which the diligent get, but they hate the pains which the diligent take; they covet every thing that is to be coveted, but will do nothing that is to be done; and therefore it follows, They have nothing; for he that will not labour let him hunger, and let him not eat, 2 Thess. iii. 10 . The desire of the… Read the whole commentary →

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