Proverbs 20:6
Many men wil boast, euery one of his owne goodnes: but who can finde a faithfull man?
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
In Context
7He that walketh in his integritie, is iust: and blessed shall his children be after him.
Cross References
Psalms 12:1To him that excelleth upon the eight tune. A Psalme of Dauid. Helpe Lord, for there is not a godly man left: for the faithfull are fayled from among the children of men.
Proverbs 25:14A man that boasteth of false liberalitie, is like cloudes and winde without raine.
Ecclesiastes 7:28And I finde more bitter then death the woman whose heart is as nettes and snares, and her handes, as bands: he that is good before God, shalbe deliuered from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.
Micah 7:1Woe is me, for I am as the sommer gatherings, and as the grapes of the vintage: there is no cluster to eate: my soule desired the first ripe fruites.
Matthew 6:2Therefore when thou giuest thine almes, thou shalt not make a trumpet to be blowen before thee, as the hypocrites doe in the Synagogues and in the streetes, to be praysed of men. Verely I say vnto you, they haue their rewarde.
Luke 18:11The Pharise stoode and prayed thus with himselfe, O God, I thanke thee that I am not as other men, extortioners, vniust, adulterers, or euen as this Publican.
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 →