Proverbs 8:7 KJV — MannaFest

Proverbs 8:7

For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

KJV

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ASV

For my mouth shall utter truth; And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

WEB

For my mouth will speak the truth, and wickedness is detestable to my lips.

YLT

For truth doth my mouth utter, And an abomination to my lips is wickedness.

DBT

For my palate shall meditate truth, and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

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Proverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.

Author: Solomon principally (1:1; chs 10–22:16 and 25–29 explicitly); Agur (ch 30); Lemuel's mother (ch 31:1–9); editorial compilation by Hezekiah's men (25:1).
Date: Solomon's reign c. 970–930 BC; Hezekiah's editorial layer c. 715–687 BC.

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Ephesians 4:25
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
Psalms 37:30
The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.
John 8:14
Jesus answered and said unto them, Though I bear record of myself, yet my record is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go; but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go.
Job 36:4
For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.
John 17:17
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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The redeemer is the eternal Word and wisdom, the Logos. He is the Wisdom that speaks to the children of men in the former part of the chapter. All divine revelation passes through his hand, and centres in him; but of him as the personal Wisdom, the second person in the Godhead, in the judgment of many of the ancients, Solomon here speaks,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

), the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, for it is a testimony to the world. Every word of God is true; there are not so much as pious frauds in it, nor are we imposed upon in that which is told us for our good. Christ is a faithful witness, is the truth itself; wickedness (that is, lying) is an abomination to his lips.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

For . . . truth--literally, "My palate shall meditate," or (as Orientals did) "mutter," my thoughts expressed only to myself are truth. wickedness--specially falsehood, as opposed to truth.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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