Proverbs 20:6
Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man?
World English Bible British
In The King James Version
Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
In Context
5Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.
7A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.
Cross References
Psalms 12:1Help, LORD; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from amongst the children of men.
Proverbs 25:14As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.
Ecclesiastes 7:28which my soul still seeks, but I have not found. I have found one man amongst a thousand, but I have not found a woman amongst all those.
Micah 7:1Misery is mine! Indeed, I am like one who gathers the summer fruits, as gleanings of the vineyard. There is no cluster of grapes to eat. My soul desires to eat the early fig.
Matthew 6:2Therefore, when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.
Luke 18:11The Pharisee stood and prayed by himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men: extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
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 →