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Proverbs 6:19
19a false witness who spouts lies, and one who stirs up strife among brothers.
Proverbs 6:19 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
- New International Version (NIV)a false witness who pours out lies and a person who stirs up conflict in the community.
- English Standard Version (ESV)a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.
- New King James Version (NKJV)A false witness who speaks lies, And one who sows discord among brethren.
Context of Proverbs 6:19
17haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, 18a heart that plots wicked schemes, feet that run to evil, a false witness who spouts lies, and one who stirs up strife among brothers. 20My son, keep your father’s mitzvah, and forsake not your mother’s teaching. 21Bind them on your heart continually— tie them around your neck.
Read all of Proverbs 6Proverbs 6:19 word by word
יָפִ֣יחַ כְּ֭זָבִים עֵ֣ד שָׁ֑קֶר וּמְשַׁלֵּ֥חַ מְ֝דָנִ֗ים בֵּ֣ין אַחִֽים׃ פRead the interlinear
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Cross-references for Proverbs 6:19
- Psalms 12:2Help, Adonai! For no one godly exists. For the faithful have vanished from the children of men.
- Psalms 19:5Their voice has gone out to all the earth and their words to the end of the world. In the heavens He pitched a tent for the sun.
- Psalms 25:18See my affliction and my suffering, and take away all my sins.
- Exodus 20:16“Do not bear false witness against your neighbor.
- Exodus 23:1“Do not to spread a false report. Do not join hands with the wicked by becoming a malicious witness.
- Deuteronomy 19:16Suppose a hostile witness rises up against someone to accuse him of wrongdoing.
- 1 Kings 21:10Then seat two sons of Belial before him, and let them testify against him saying, ‘You cursed God and the king.’ Then take him out and stone him to death.”
- Psalms 27:12Do not turn me over to the desire of my foes. For false witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence.
- Psalms 35:11Violent witnesses rise up. They question me about things I know nothing about.
- Matthew 15:19For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, and slander.
- Matthew 26:59Now the ruling kohanim and all the Sanhedrin kept trying to get false testimony against Yeshua so they could put Him to death.
- Acts 6:13They set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking words against this holy place and the Torah.
- Proverbs 6:14who continually plots evil with deceit in his heart stirring up strife.
- Proverbs 16:28A perverse person sows strife, and a gossip separates close friends.
- Proverbs 22:10Throw out a scoffer and strife will go out, quarreling and disgrace will cease.
- Proverbs 26:20Without wood a fire goes out; without gossip quarrels cease.
Commentaries on Proverbs 6:19
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 16-19Verses 16-19 A new section, but not a new subject. The closing words, “he that soweth discord” (Proverbs 6:19, compare Proverbs 6:14), lead us to identify the sketch as taken from the same character. With the recognized Hebrew form of climax (see Proverbs 30:15, Proverbs 30:18, Proverbs 30:24; Amos 1:1-15; 2; Job 5:19), the teacher here enumerates six qualities as detestable, and the seventh as worse than all (seven represents completeness), but all the…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 12-19Verses 12-19 If the slothful are to be condemned, who do nothing, much more those that do all the ill they can. Observe how such a man is described. He says and does every thing artfully, and with design. His ruin shall come without warning, and without relief. Here is a list of things hateful to God. Those sins are in a special manner provoking to God, which are hurtful to the comfort of human life. These things which God hates, we must hate in…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 19A false witness distorts the truth in court or in daily conversation.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 16-1916-19. six ... seven--a mode of speaking to arrest attention (Pr 30:15, 18; Job 5:19).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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