Proverbs - 17:4 Meaning
“A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.”
King James Version (KJV)
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
17:4-7 Flatterers, especially false teachers, are welcome to those that live in sin. 5. Those that laugh at poverty, treat God's providence and precepts with contempt. 6. It is an honour to children to have wise and godly parents continued to them, even after they are grown up and settled in the world. 7. A fool, in Solomon's Proverbs, signifies a wicked man, whom excellent speech does not become, because his conversation contradicts it.
“And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.”
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