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Text -- Proverbs 14:5 (NET)

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14:5 A truthful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies.
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Dictionary Themes and Topics: WITNESS | SLANDER | Poetry | Lies and Deceits | CRIME; CRIMES | more
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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

JFB: Pro 14:5 - -- One tested to be such.

One tested to be such.

JFB: Pro 14:5 - -- Or, "breathe out lies"--that is, habitually lies (Pro 6:19; compare Act 9:1). Or the sense is, that habitual truthfulness, or lying, will be evinced i...

Or, "breathe out lies"--that is, habitually lies (Pro 6:19; compare Act 9:1). Or the sense is, that habitual truthfulness, or lying, will be evinced in witness-bearing.

TSK: Pro 14:5 - -- Pro 14:25, Pro 6:19, Pro 12:17, Pro 13:5, Pro 19:5, Pro 19:9; Exo 20:16, Exo 23:1; 1Ki 21:13, 1Ki 22:12-14

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Poole: Pro 14:5 - -- Will not lie to wit, in common discourse and conversation, whereby he showeth his love to truth, and giveth assurance that when he is called to be a ...

Will not lie to wit, in common discourse and conversation, whereby he showeth his love to truth, and giveth assurance that when he is called to be a witness, he will be true and faithful.

But a false witness will utter lies or, as the words lie in the Hebrew, and or but he that

will utter lies (that accustometh himself to lying) is or will be a false witness, when occasion requires it. Having debauched his conscience by daily lying, he is thereby prepared and disposed to false witness-bearing. Compare Pro 12:17 .

Gill: Pro 14:5 - -- A faithful witness will not lie,.... For that would be contrary to his character as faithful; and as he will not witness to a falsehood upon oath in a...

A faithful witness will not lie,.... For that would be contrary to his character as faithful; and as he will not witness to a falsehood upon oath in a court of judicature, so neither will he tell a lie in common conversation. This may be applied to Gospel ministers, who are witnesses of Christ; the Gospel they preach is a testimony concerning him, and they bear a faithful witness to the truth; nor will they, knowingly and willingly, deliver out a falsehood, or a doctrinal lie, since "no lie is of the truth", 1Jo 2:21; the character of a faithful witness is given to Christ, Rev 1:5; who is a "witness" of his father's love and grace, of his mind and will, and of the doctrines of the Gospel relating to himself, and the method of salvation by him; and he is "faithful" to him that appointed him; nor can he nor will he lie, for he is "truth" itself;

but a false witness will utter lies; or "blow" e them out, and spread them abroad in great plenty; he will not stick to tell them, and, having no conscience, will utter them as fast as he can, with all boldness and confidence; for one that fears not to bear testimony to a falsehood upon oath, will not scruple to lie in common talk. Or the words, "nay" be rendered, "he that uttereth lies will be a false witness"; he that accustoms himself to lying, in his conversation with men in private company, will become a false witness upon occasion in a public court of judicature: such an one is not to be depended on; lesser sins lead to greater, lying to perjury. So false teachers, and the followers of the man of sin, speak lies in hypocrisy, doctrinal ones, which they are given up to believe; and such as do so are false witnesses, deceivers, and antichrist.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Pro 14:5 This saying addresses the problem of legal testimony: A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness does lie – naturally. The first colon...

Geneva Bible: Pro 14:5 A faithful witness will not lie: but ( e ) a false witness will utter lies. ( e ) For the maintenance of his own ambition, and not for God's glory, a...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

MHCC: Pro 14:5 - --A conscientious witness will not dare to represent anything otherwise than according to his knowledge.

Matthew Henry: Pro 14:5 - -- In the administration of justice much depends upon the witnesses, and therefore it is necessary to the common good that witnesses be principled as t...

Keil-Delitzsch: Pro 14:5 - -- Striking if also accidental is the frequency of the א and ב in Pro 14:4. This is continued in Pro 14:5, where the collector gives two proverbs, ...

Constable: Pro 10:1--22:17 - --II. COUPLETS EXPRESSING WISDOM 10:1--22:16 Chapters 1-9, as we have seen, contain discourses that Solomon eviden...

Constable: Pro 14:1--15:33 - --8. Further advice for wise living chs. 14-15 These proverbs are more difficult to group together under a general heading because there are fewer commo...

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Commentary -- Other

Evidence: Pro 14:5 See Pro 14:25 .

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Proverbs (Book Introduction) THE NATURE AND USE OF PROVERBS.--A proverb is a pithy sentence, concisely expressing some well-established truth susceptible of various illustrations ...

TSK: Proverbs (Book Introduction) The wisdom of all ages, from the highest antiquity, has chosen to compress and communicate its lessons in short, compendious sentences, and in poetic ...

TSK: Proverbs 14 (Chapter Introduction) Overview

Poole: Proverbs 14 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 14 He speaks of the woman not to exclude the man, of whom this is no less true, but because the women, especially in those times, were ver...

MHCC: Proverbs (Book Introduction) The subject of this book may be thus stated by an enlargement on the opening verses. 1. The Proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel. 2. ...

Matthew Henry: Proverbs (Book Introduction) An Exposition, With Practical Observations, of The Proverbs We have now before us, I. A new author, or penman rather, or pen (if you will) made use o...

Constable: Proverbs (Book Introduction) Introduction Title The title of this book in the Hebrew Bible is "The Proverbs of Solo...

Constable: Proverbs (Outline) Outline I. Discourses on wisdom chs. 1-9 A. Introduction to the book 1:1-7 ...

Constable: Proverbs Proverbs Bibliography Aitken, Kenneth T. Proverbs. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1986. Alden...

Haydock: Proverbs (Book Introduction) THE BOOK OF PROVERBS. INTRODUCTION. This book is so called, because it consists of wise and weighty sentences, regulating the morals of men; and...

Gill: Proverbs (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO PROVERBS This book is called, in some printed Hebrew copies, "Sepher Mishle", the Book of Proverbs; the title of it in the Vulgate ...

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