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Proverbs 13:5
A good man hates lies, but an evil man loves to tell lies. This is why the evil man causes shame.
A good man hates lies, but an evil man loves to tell lies. This is why the evil man causes shame.
CHAPTER 13 THE CONTRAST: ADVANTAGE AND DISADVANTAGE The contrast in Proverbs concerning the righteous and the wicked is continued in this chapter, showing mostly the advantage of the righteous, illust...
PROVERBS 13. This chapter has little that is fresh and no new groups of proverbs. We have a well-known reference to the weariness of waiting for a hope that comes not (Proverbs 13:12 and Proverbs 13:1...
HATETH LYING. Illustrations: Joseph (Genesis 46:31); Samuel (1 Samuel 3:18); Mieaiah (1 Kings 22:13; 1 Kings 22:14;...
_is loathsome_ lit. STINKETH. Comp. Ecclesiastes 10:1; Exodus 5:21, where the same Heb. word occurs. In R.V. marg. an alternative rendering is suggested: _causeth shame and bringeth reproach_....
DISCOURSE: 780 THE CHARACTER AND END OF THE WICKED Proverbs 13:5. _A wicked man is lothesome, and cometh to shame_. THE world in general uphold and countenance one another in their evil ways; some wi...
CHAPTER 13 TEXT Proverbs 13:1-9 1. A wise son heareth his father's instruction; But a scoffer heareth not rebuke. 2. A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth; But the soul of the treachero...
A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame. A RIGHTEOUS (MAN) HATETH LYING (NOT MERELY IN OTHERS, BUT IN HIMSELF: NOT MERELY ABSTAINS FROM IT, BUT HATETH IT): BU...
Read, 'but a wicked man behaves shamefully and abominably.'...
2. Read, 'the desire of the treacherous is for violence' (RM)....
A WICKED MAN IS LOATHSOME, AND COMETH TO SHAME. — Or it may signify, “disgraceth and putteth to shame” (by his calumnies), or “acts basely and shamefully.”...
דְּבַר ־שֶׁ֭קֶר יִשְׂנָ֣א צַדִּ֑יק וְ֝ רָשָׁ֗ע...
CHAPTER 14 PRIDE AND HUMILITY "A wise son heareth his father's instruction, but a scorner heareth not rebuke."- Proverbs 13:1 “Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth correction, but he tha...
Verse Proverbs 13:2. Compare this with Proverbs 12:14. As the words of a good man benefit himself as well as others, so the evil deeds of transgressors react upon themselves. Verse Proverbs 13:5. The...
_Confounded. The detractor is like swine, stirring up dirt. (St. Chrysostom, 32. ad Pop.) --- The liar is not believed, even when he speaks the truth. (Aristotle)_...
A wise son heareth his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke. A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence. He that keepeth his...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be followe...
A RIGHTEOUS [MAN] HATETH LYING,.... Or, "a word of falsehood" y; as being contrary to honour, truth, and conscience. He hates it in himself and others; he hates all sorts of lies, lies in common conve...
A righteous [man] hateth lying: but a wicked [man] is loathsome, and cometh to shame. Ver. 5. _A righteous man hateth lying._] Hateth it as hell. Rom 12:9 _a_ "I hate and abhor lying," saith David; P...
_A righteous man hateth lying_ Both in himself and in other men, whereby he gets that good name, which is like a precious ointment; _but a wicked man_ Who accustoms himself to lying; _cometh to shame...
V. 5. A RIGHTEOUS MAN HATETH LYING, deceitful language as well as deceitful matters; BUT A WICKED MAN IS LOATHSOME, all his acts being done in baseness, AND COMETH TO SHAME, literally, "maketh offensi...
HATETH LYING, both in himself and in other men, whereby he getteth that good name which is like a precious ointment. A WICKED MAN; who accustometh himself to lying, as may be gathered from the foregoi...
Proverbs 13:5 righteous H6662 hates H8130 (H8799) lying H1697 H8267 wicked H7563 loathsome H887 (H8686) shame...
CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The destruction of sinners is unavoidable, for God's wrath pursues them, and whom God pursues is sure to be overtaken. The...
Proverbs 13:1. A _wise son heareth his father's instruction._ This maxim is in substance often repeated, it being of the last importance to hear the wisdom of a father proceeding from so much love, an...
_A righteous man hateth lying._ MORAL TRUTHFULNESS I. An instinct to the righteous. “A righteous man hateth lying.” A soul that has been made right in relation to the laws of its own spiritual being...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 13:1 The present section of Proverbs 1:1 (Proverbs 10:1) began with a call to be a...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 13:5. LYING, rather “deceit.” Stuart renders it “a false report.” Zöckler translates the latter clause of this verse, “the ungodly acteth basely and shamefully.” The transla...
EXPOSITION VERSE 13:1-15:19 Second section in this collection. PROVERBS 13:1 A WISE SON HEARETH HIS FATHER'S INSTRUCTION. The Authorized Version introduces the verb from the second member. The Hebr...
In the thirteenth chapter of Proverbs, there is a continuation of the contrasting of the righteous with the wicked, the wise and the scorner, the transgressor and the good man. A wise son hears his fa...
Colossians 3:9; Daniel 12:2; Ephesians 4:25; Ezekiel 20:43; Ezeki