Proverbs 26:28
in Proverbs 26A lying tongue hates those it crushes, and a flattering mouth causes ruin.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
A lying tongue hateth those whom it hath wounded; And a flattering mouth worketh ruin.
KJV
A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.
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This verse in Proverbs 26
Commentary
4 notes on this verseA lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it - He that injures another hates him in proportion to the injury he has done him; and, strange to tell, in proportion to the innocence of the oppressed. The debtor cannot bear the sight of his creditor; nor the knave, of him whom he has injured.
This site's exposition
Like glaze covering an earthen vessel
on Proverbs 26:23-28
The chapter pictures "burning lips and a wicked heart" as "glaze covering an earthen vessel." The hater who speaks graciously hides seven abominations. The digger who falls into his own pit and the stone that rolls back are the reversal enacted at Psalm 7:15-16 and in Haman's gallows.
This site's exposition
A lying tongue hates those it crushes
Adam Clarke reads the first line as a strange law of the heart. A lying tongue hates those it crushes, in proportion to the injury and to their innocence. Clarke compares the debtor who avoids his creditor.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it,....
The words behind it
8 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| לְֽשׁוֹן־ | leshonoshe- | a tongue of | H3956 → | 117 times |
| שֶׁ֭קֶר | sheker | falsehood | H8267 → | 113 times |
| יִשְׂנָ֣א | yisna' | it hates | H8130 → | 146 times |
| דַכָּ֑יו | dakav | crushed [people] its | H1790 → | |
| וּפֶ֥ה | upeh | and a mouth | H6310 → | 498 times |
| חָ֝לָ֗ק | chalak | flattering | H2509 → | |
| יַעֲשֶׂ֥ה | yaaseh | it makes | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| מִדְחֶֽה׃ | midcheh | stumbling | H4072 → |
לְֽשׁוֹן־a tongue of
leshonoshe-H3956 →117 times
שֶׁ֭קֶרfalsehood
shekerH8267 →113 times
יִשְׂנָ֣אit hates
yisna'H8130 →146 times
דַכָּ֑יוcrushed [people] its
dakavH1790 →
וּפֶ֥הand a mouth
upehH6310 →498 times
חָ֝לָ֗קflattering
chalakH2509 →
יַעֲשֶׂ֥הit makes
yaasehH6213 →2628 times
מִדְחֶֽה׃stumbling
midchehH4072 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
3 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Proverbs 7:5that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.
it leads to
- Proverbs 2:16
It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words
- Proverbs 6:24
to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
- Proverbs 5:3
Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,
- Proverbs 2:16
Where this verse is studied
On this page
Studies4
About Proverbs
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Franz Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Proverbs of Solomon; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.