Proverbs 17:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.

Proverbs 17:4 —

Old words in this verse

naughty: — bad, worthless.

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Timothy 4:3-4
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; …
1 John 4:5
They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
Proverbs 28:4
They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.
Isaiah 30:10
Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?

Topics

Deceit Deception False Teachers Falsehood Liars Lying Perjury Slander

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 4)

Note, 1. Those that design to do ill support themselves by falsehood and lying: A wicked doer gives ear, with a great deal of pleasure, to false lips, that will justify him in the ill he does, to those that aim to make public disturbances, catch greedily at libels, and false stories, that defame the government and the administration. 2. Those that take the liberty to tell lies take a pleasure in h…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. Wicked doers and speakers alike delight in calumny.