Isaiah 32:5
The fool will no longer be called noble, nor the scoundrel be highly respected.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.
In Context
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:25Please don’t let my lord pay attention to this worthless fellow, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him; but I, your servant, didn’t see my lord’s young men whom you sent.
Proverbs 23:6Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies,
Malachi 3:18Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 32:2-9
The Reign of Justice. ( b. c. 726.) 1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment. 2 And a man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. 3 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken. 4 The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly. 5 The vile… Read the whole commentary →