Proverbs 13:5
A word of falsehood, the righteous man, hateth, but, the lawless, causeth shame and disgrace.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.
In Context
6Righteousness, guardeth the man of blameless way, but, lawlessness, overthroweth the sinner.
Cross References
Psalms 119:163Falsehood, I hate and abhor, Thy law, do I love.
Proverbs 6:17Eyes that are lofty, a tongue that is false, and hands shedding innocent blood;
Proverbs 30:8Vanity and falsehood, remove far from me, Neither poverty nor riches, give me, Feed me with the food appointed me:
Ezekiel 20:43Then shall ye call to mind. there, your own ways and all your own doings, wherewith ye had defiled yourselves,- And ye shall become loathsome in your own sight, for all your wickednesses, which ye have done.
Daniel 12:2and, many of the sleepers in the dusty ground, shall awake,—these, [shall be] to age-abiding life, but, those, to reproach, and age-abiding abhorrence;
Ephesians 4:25Wherefore, stripping off what is false, be speaking truth each one with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 13:5
4 The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat. Here is, 1. The misery and shame of the slothful. See how foolish and absurd they are; they desire the gains which the diligent get, but they hate the pains which the diligent take; they covet every thing that is to be coveted, but will do nothing that is to be done; and therefore it follows, They have nothing; for he that will not labour let him hunger, and let him not eat, 2 Thess. iii. 10 . The desire of the… Read the whole commentary →