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Selected Verse: Proverbs 10:18 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Pr 10:18 |
King James |
He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| Both vices must one day be known and punished, and hence their folly. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Better, He who hideth hatred is of lying lips. He who cherishes hatred, is either a knave, or a fool - a knave if he hides, a fool if he utters it. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
18 He that hideth hatred is a mouth of falsehood;
And he that spreadeth slander is a fool.
The lxx, καλύπτουσιν ἔχθραν χεῖλα δίκαια, which Ewald prefers, and which has given occasion to Hitzig to make a remarkable conjecture ("He who conceals hatred, close lips," which no one understands without Hitzig's comment. to this his conjecture). But (1) to hide hatred (cf. Pro 10:11, Pro 26:24) is something altogether different from to cover sin (Pro 10:12, Pro 17:9), or generally to keep anything secret with discretion (Pro 10:13); and (2) that δίκαια is a corrupt reading for ἄδικα (as Grabe supposes, and Symmachus translates) or δόλια (as Lagarde supposes, and indeed is found in Codd.). Michaelis well remarks: odium tectum est dolosi, manifesta sycophantia stultorum. Whoever conceals hateful feelings behind his words is שׂפתי־שׂקר, a mouth of falsehood (cf. the mouth of the fool, Pro 10:14); one does not need to supply אישׁ, but much rather has hence to conclude that a false man is simply so named, as is proved by Psa 120:3. There is a second moral judgment, 18b: he who spreadeth slander (וּמוצא, according to the Masoretic writing: he who divulges it, the correlate to הביא, to bring to, Gen 37:2) is a Thor fool, stupid, dull, כּסיל (not a Narr fool, godless person, אויל); for such slandering can generally bring no advantage; it injures the reputation of him to whom the דבּה, i.e., the secret report, the slander, refers; it sows discord, has incalculable consequences, and finally brings guilt on the tale-bearer himself. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Lying lips - With flattering words. He here condemns two opposite vices, secret hatred, and manifest slander. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| He that hideth - This is a common case. How many, when full of resentment, and deadly hatred, meditating revenge and cruelty, and sometimes even murder, have pretended that they thought nothing of the injury they had sustained; had passed by the insult, etc.! Thus lying lips covered the malevolence of a wicked heart. |
2 These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.
3 What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?
14 Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
13 In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
9 He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
12 Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
24 He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him;
11 The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.