Proverbs 13:5
A false word the righteous hateth, And the wicked causeth abhorrence, and is confounded.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.
In Context
4The soul of the slothful is desiring, and hath not. And the soul of the diligent is made fat.
6Righteousness keepeth him who is perfect in the way, And wickedness overthroweth a sin offering.
Cross References
Psalms 119:163Falsehood I have hated, yea I abominate [it], Thy law I have loved.
Proverbs 6:17Eyes high — tongues false — And hands shedding innocent blood —
Proverbs 30:8Vanity and a lying word put far from me, Poverty or wealth give not to me, Cause me to eat the bread of my portion,
Ezekiel 20:43And ye have remembered there your ways, And all your doings, In which ye have been defiled, And ye have been loathsome in your own faces, For all your evils that ye have done.
Daniel 12:2'And the multitude of those sleeping in the dust of the ground do awake, some to life age-during, and some to reproaches — to abhorrence age-during.
Ephesians 4:25Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each 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 →