Proverbs Chapter 13 verse 5 Holy Bible
A righteous man hateth lying; But a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.
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The upright man is a hater of false words: the evil-doer gets a bad name and is put to shame.
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A righteous [man] hateth lying; but the wicked maketh himself odious and cometh to shame.
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A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.
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A righteous man hates lies, But a wicked man brings shame and disgrace.
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A false word the righteous hateth, And the wicked causeth abhorrence, and is confounded.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 5. - Lying; Vulgate, verbum mendax; Septuagint, λόγον ἄδικον; literally, a word of falsehood. But debar, "word," is used, like ῤῆμα in Hellenistic Greek, in a general sense for "thing," i.e. the subject of speech. So here it is not only verbal lying that is meant, but every kind of deceit and guile. This naturally betrays itself by the speech, according to the proverb, "Show me a liar, and I will show you a thief." A wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame. The clause is variously translated. Vulgate, confundit et confundetur, "causes shame to others and to himself." Septuagint, "is put to shame, and shall not have licence of tongue (παῥῤησίαν)." The Revised Version margin, "causeth shame and bringeth reproach." Delitzsch, "brings into bad odour (Genesis 34:30) and causes shame." Hitzig, "behaveth injuriously and shamefully." The antithesis is best brought out by the rendering that marks the effect of the wicked man's "lying;" "He brings disgrace upon others (who have trusted him or have been associated with him) and causes shame."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(5) 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."