Proverbs 19:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.

Proverbs 19:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 21:28
A false witness shall perish: but the man that heareth speaketh constantly.
Proverbs 19:9
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.
Proverbs 6:19
A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
Exodus 23:1
Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
Daniel 6:24
And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den.

Topics

Deceit Deception False Teachers Falsehood Liars Lying Perjury Slander

Commentary

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

(vv. 5)

Here we have, 1. The sins threatened—bearing false witness in judgment and speaking lies in common conversation. Men could not arrive at such a pitch of impiety as to bear false witness (where to the guilt of a lie is added that of perjury and injury) if they had not advanced to it by allowing themselves to speak untruths in jest and banter, or under pretence of doing good. Thus men teach their to…

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

(vv. 5)

5. Compare Pr 19:9, where perish explains not escape here (compare Psa 88:9, 10).