Proverbs 21:29
Wicked people pretend that they know everything, but righteous people think carefully about what will happen because of what they do.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
A wicked man hardeneth his face: but as for the upright, he directeth his way.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 119:5I desire that I will faithfully/always obey all ◄your statutes/that you have said that we should do►.
Proverbs 4:25Keep looking straight ahead toward the events that are before you, and do not turn aside.
Proverbs 11:5When people are honest and good, that will ◄direct their paths/show them what is right for them to do►; but wicked people will experience disasters because of the evil things that they do.
Proverbs 29:1Some people remain stubborn [IDM] even though they are often reproved/warned about doing what is wrong, but some day they will be crushed/ruined, and nothing will be able to heal them.
Jeremiah 3:3That is why I have not sent you any rain at the times of the year when you needed it. But you are like prostitutes [MET] who are not at all ashamed for what they have done.
Jeremiah 8:12They should be [RHQ] ashamed when they do disgusting things [RHQ], but they do not even know how to show on their faces that they are ashamed about their sins. So, they will be killed, and their corpses also will lie among the corpses of others who have been slaughtered by their enemies. They will be killed when I punish them.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 21:29
28 A false witness shall perish: but the man that heareth speaketh constantly. Here is, 1. The doom of a false witness. He who, for favour to one side or malice to the other, gives in a false evidence, or makes an affidavit of that which he knows to be false, or at least does not know to be true, if it be discovered, his reputation will be ruined. A man may tell a lie perhaps in his haste; but he that gives a false testimony does it with deliberation and solemnity, and it cannot but be a presumptuous sin, and a… Read the whole commentary →