Proverbs 26:24 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁴He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him;

Proverbs 26:24 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 12:20
Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.
Proverbs 10:18
He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
Psalms 41:6
And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
Proverbs 11:1
A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
Proverbs 14:8
The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.

Topics

Anger Conceit Consistency Deceit Deception Dishonesty Dissembling False Teachers

Commentary

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

(vv. 24-26)

There is cause to complain, not only of the want of sincerity in men’s profession of friendship, and that they do not love so well as they pretend nor will serve their friends so much as they promise, but, which is much worse, of wicked designs in the profession of friendship, and the making of it subservient to the most malicious intentions. This is here spoken of as a common thing (Prov. 26:24):…

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

(vv. 24)

24. dissembleth--though an unusual sense of the word (compare Margin), is allowable, and better suits the context, which sets forth hypocrisy.