Proverbs 26:25
When his voice is gracious trust not in him, For seven abominations [are] in his heart.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart.
In Context
24By his lips doth a hater dissemble, And in his heart he placeth deceit,
26Hatred is covered by deceit, Revealed is its wickedness in an assembly.
Cross References
Nehemiah 6:2that Sanballat sendeth, also Geshem, unto me, saying, 'Come and we meet together in the villages, in the valley of Ono;' and they are thinking to do to me evil.
Psalms 28:3Draw me not with the wicked, And with workers of iniquity, Speaking peace with their neighbours, And evil in their heart.
Jeremiah 9:2Who doth give me in a wilderness A lodging-place of travellers? And I leave my people, and go from them, For all of them [are] adulterers, An assembly of treacherous ones.
Micah 7:5Believe not in a friend, trust not in a leader, From her who is lying in thy bosom keep the openings of thy mouth.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 26:25-27
24 He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him; 25 When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart. 26 Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shewed before the whole congregation. There is cause to complain, not only of the want of sincerity in men's profession of friendship, and that they do not love so well as they pretend nor will serve their friends so much as they promise, but, which is much worse, of wicked designs in the… Read the whole commentary →