Parallel Verses

World English Bible

A righteous man hates lies, but a wicked man brings shame and disgrace.

New American Standard Bible

A righteous man hates falsehood,
But a wicked man acts disgustingly and shamefully.

King James Version

A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.

Holman Bible

The righteous hate lying,
but the wicked act disgustingly and disgracefully.

International Standard Version

A righteous person hates deceit, but the wicked person is shameful and disgraceful.

A Conservative Version

A righteous man hates lying, but a wicked man is loathsome, and comes to shame.

American Standard Version

A righteous man hateth lying; But a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.

Amplified


A righteous man hates lies,
But a wicked man is loathsome, and he acts shamefully.

Bible in Basic English

The upright man is a hater of false words: the evil-doer gets a bad name and is put to shame.

Darby Translation

A righteous man hateth lying; but the wicked maketh himself odious and cometh to shame.

Julia Smith Translation

The just one will hate the word of falsehood: and the unjust one will be loathsome and be put to shame.

King James 2000

A righteous man hates lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and comes to shame.

Lexham Expanded Bible

The righteous hates a word of falsehood; the wicked will bring shame and {disgrace}.

Modern King James verseion

The righteous hates lying, but the wicked one is odious and acts shamefully.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

A righteous man abhoreth lies; but the ungodly shameth both others and himself.

NET Bible

The righteous person hates anything false, but the wicked person acts in shameful disgrace.

New Heart English Bible

A righteous man hates lies, but a wicked man brings shame and disgrace.

The Emphasized Bible

A word of falsehood, the righteous man, hateth, but, the lawless, causeth shame and disgrace.

Webster

A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is lothsome, and cometh to shame.

Youngs Literal Translation

A false word the righteous hateth, And the wicked causeth abhorrence, and is confounded.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
צדּיק 
Tsaddiyq 
Usage: 206

שׂנא 
Sane' 
Usage: 145

דּבר 
Dabar 
Usage: 1438

but a wicked
רשׁע 
Rasha` 
Usage: 263

בּאשׁ 
Ba'ash 
Usage: 17

Context Readings

A Wise Son Lives Righteously

4 The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied. 5 A righteous man hates lies, but a wicked man brings shame and disgrace. 6 Righteousness guards the way of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

Cross References

Proverbs 3:35

The wise will inherit glory, but shame will be the promotion of fools.

Colossians 3:9

Don't lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

Psalm 119:163

I hate and abhor falsehood. I love your law.

Proverbs 6:17

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood;

Proverbs 30:8

Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me;

Ezekiel 6:9

Those of you that escape shall remember me among the nations where they shall be carried captive, how that I have been broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the prostitute after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

Ezekiel 20:43

There you shall remember your ways, and all your doings, in which you have polluted yourselves; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have committed.

Ezekiel 36:31

Then you shall remember your evil ways, and your doings that were not good; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.

Daniel 12:2

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Zechariah 11:8

I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.

Ephesians 4:25

Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

Revelation 21:8

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."

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