Proverbs 20:6
A kind man one may call, a great man,—but, a faithful man, who can find?
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
In Context
5Deep water, is counsel in a man’s heart, but, a man of understanding, will draw it out.
7As for a righteous man, walking in his integrity, how happy are his children after him!
Cross References
Psalms 12:1O save Yahweh, for the man of lovingkindness, is no more, for the faithful, have vanished, from among the sons of men.
Proverbs 25:14Clouds and wind, when rain there is none, is the man who boasteth himself of a pretended gift.
Ecclesiastes 7:28what my soul still sought, yet I found not,—one man out of a thousand, have I found, but, a woman among all these, have I not found.
Micah 7:1Alas for me! for I am become as gatherings of summer fruit, as gleaning-grapes in harvest, there is no cluster to eat, the first ripe fruit, my soul, craved.
Matthew 6:2When, therefore, thou mayest be doing an alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, just as, the hypocrites, do in the synagogues and in the streets—that they may be glorified by men,—Verily, I say unto you, they are getting back their reward.
Luke 18:11The Pharisee, taking his stand, these things unto himself was praying: O God! I thank thee, that I am not like the rest of men,—extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or, even as 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 →