24He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him;
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.
He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.
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):…
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