Proverbs 21:29
A wicked man hardens his face: but as for the upright, he directs his way.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
A wicked man hardeneth his face: but as for the upright, he directeth his way.
In Context
28A false witness shall perish: but the man that hears speaks constantly.
30There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.
Cross References
Psalms 119:5O that my ways were directed to keep your statutes!
Proverbs 4:25Let yours eyes look right on, and let yours eyelids look straight before you.
Proverbs 11:5The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
Proverbs 29:1He, that being often reproved hardens his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
Jeremiah 3:3Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; and you had a whore's forehead, you refused to be ashamed.
Jeremiah 8:12Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, says the LORD.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 21:29
28 A false witness shall perish: but the man that heareth speaketh constantly. Here is, 1. The doom of a false witness. He who, for favour to one side or malice to the other, gives in a false evidence, or makes an affidavit of that which he knows to be false, or at least does not know to be true, if it be discovered, his reputation will be ruined. A man may tell a lie perhaps in his haste; but he that gives a false testimony does it with deliberation and solemnity, and it cannot but be a presumptuous sin, and a… Read the whole commentary →