Proverbs 20:6

Many people proclaim that they can be trusted to do what they say that they will do, but it is very difficult to find [RHQ] someone who can really be trusted.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?

In Context

5Just as it is difficult to bring up water from a deep well, it is difficult to know what people are thinking, but someone who has good sense/insight will be able to find out what people are thinking.

7If parents conduct their lives as they should, God blesses their children (OR, their children are very happy/fortunate).

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Cross References

Psalms 12:1Yahweh, help us! It seems that people who are loyal to you have all vanished.

Proverbs 25:14When someone promises to give a gift to us but never gives it, that disappoints us as much as [SIM] clouds and wind that come but do not bring any rain.

Ecclesiastes 7:28and I continued to try to learn more, but I could not find all that I was searching for. But one thing that I found out was that among 1,000 people I found one righteous man, but I did not find even one righteous woman.

Micah 7:1I am very miserable/frustrated! I am like [SIM] someone who is hungry, who searches for fruit to pick after all the fruit had been picked and who finds no grapes or figs to eat.

Matthew 6:2So, whenever you give something to the poor, do not announce it as people announce something that they want other people to know about by playing a fanfare on a trumpet [MET]. That is what the hypocrites do ◄in the synagogues/in the Jewish meeting places► and on the main roads in order that people might see what they do and praise them. Keep this in mind: People praise those hypocrites, but that is the only reward they will receive!

Luke 18:11The Pharisee stood and prayed silently, ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men. Some extort money from others; some treat others unjustly; some commit adultery. I do not do such things. And I am certainly not like this tax collector who cheats people!

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 →

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