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Verse	Translation	Text
Pr 13:5	Strong Concordance	A righteous [06662] man hateth [08130] lying [01697] [08267]: but a wicked [07563] man is loathsome [0887], and cometh to shame [02659].
	King James	A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
loathsome . . . shame--better, causeth shame and reproach (compare Pro 19:26), by slander, &c., which the righteous hates.

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

loathsome . . . shame--better, causeth shame and reproach (compare Pro 19:26), by slander, &c., which the righteous hates.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]
Two proverbs of the character of the righteous and of the effect of righteousness: A deceitful thing the righteous hateth; But the godless disgraceth and putteth to shame. With דּבּר in the sphere of an intelligible generality (as here of falsehood, or Psa 41:9 of worthlessness) a concrete event is in view, as with דּברי in the following plur. a general fact is separated into its individual instances and circumstances (vid., at Psa 65:4); for דבר means not only the word in which the soul reveals itself, but also any fact in which an inner principle or a general fact or a whole comes forth to view. The righteous hateth all that bears in it the character of a falsehood (punctuate דּבר־שׁקר with Gaja, cf. Pro 12:19), but the godless ... Should we now, with Bertheau, Hitzig, and others, translate "acteth basely and shamefully"? It is true that both Hiphs. may be regarded as transitive, but this expression gives not right contrast to 5a, and is pointless. We have seen at Pro 10:5 that הבישׁ, like השׂכּיל, has also a causative signification: to put to shame, i.e., bring shame upon others, and that Pro 19:26, where מבישׁ וּמחפּיר are connected, this causative signification lies nearer than the intrinsically transitive. Thus it will also here be meant, that while the righteous hateth all that is false or that is tainted by falsehood, the godless on the contrary loves to disgrace and to put to shame. But it is a question whether יבאישׁ is to be derived from בּאשׁ = בּושׁ, and thus is of the same meaning as יבישׁ; הבאישׁ, Isa 30:5, which there signifies pudefactum esse, is pointed הבאישׁ, and is thus derived from a יבשׁ = בּושׁ, vid., Sa2 19:6. But הבאישׁ occurs also as Hiph. of בּאשׁ, and means transitively to make of an evil savour, Gen 34:30, cf. Exo 5:21, as well as intransitively to come into evil savour, Sa1 27:12. In this sense of putidum faciens, bringing into evil savour, יבאישׁ occurs here as at Pro 19:26, suitably along with יחפיר; Pro 19:26 is the putidum facere by evil report (slander), into which the foolish son brings his parents, here by his own evil report, thus to be thought of as brought about by means of slander. The old translators here fall into error; Luther renders both Hiphils reflexively; only the Venet. (after Kimchi) is right: ὀζώσει (from an ὀζοῦν as trans. to ὀζεῖν) καὶ ἀτιμώσει, he makes to be of ill odour and dishonours.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]

Two proverbs of the character of the righteous and of the effect of righteousness:

A deceitful thing the righteous hateth;

But the godless disgraceth and putteth to shame.

With דּבּר in the sphere of an intelligible generality (as here of falsehood, or Psa 41:9 of worthlessness) a concrete event is in view, as with דּברי in the following plur. a general fact is separated into its individual instances and circumstances (vid., at Psa 65:4); for דבר means not only the word in which the soul reveals itself, but also any fact in which an inner principle or a general fact or a whole comes forth to view. The righteous hateth all that bears in it the character of a falsehood (punctuate דּבר־שׁקר with Gaja, cf. Pro 12:19), but the godless ... Should we now, with Bertheau, Hitzig, and others, translate "acteth basely and shamefully"? It is true that both Hiphs. may be regarded as transitive, but this expression gives not right contrast to 5a, and is pointless. We have seen at Pro 10:5 that הבישׁ, like השׂכּיל, has also a causative signification: to put to shame, i.e., bring shame upon others, and that Pro 19:26, where מבישׁ וּמחפּיר are connected, this causative signification lies nearer than the intrinsically transitive. Thus it will also here be meant, that while the righteous hateth all that is false or that is tainted by falsehood, the godless on the contrary loves to disgrace and to put to shame. But it is a question whether יבאישׁ is to be derived from בּאשׁ = בּושׁ, and thus is of the same meaning as יבישׁ; הבאישׁ, Isa 30:5, which there signifies pudefactum esse, is pointed הבאישׁ, and is thus derived from a יבשׁ = בּושׁ, vid., Sa2 19:6. But הבאישׁ occurs also as Hiph. of בּאשׁ, and means transitively to make of an evil savour, Gen 34:30, cf. Exo 5:21, as well as intransitively to come into evil savour, Sa1 27:12. In this sense of putidum faciens, bringing into evil savour, יבאישׁ occurs here as at Pro 19:26, suitably along with יחפיר; Pro 19:26 is the putidum facere by evil report (slander), into which the foolish son brings his parents, here by his own evil report, thus to be thought of as brought about by means of slander. The old translators here fall into error; Luther renders both Hiphils reflexively; only the Venet. (after Kimchi) is right: ὀζώσει (from an ὀζοῦν as trans. to ὀζεῖν) καὶ ἀτιμώσει, he makes to be of ill odour and dishonours.

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²⁶ He that wasteth [07703] his father [01], and chaseth away [01272] his mother [0517], is a son [01121] that causeth shame [0954], and bringeth reproach [02659].

¹² And Achish [0397] believed [0539] David [01732], saying [0559], He hath made his people [05971] Israel [03478] utterly [0887] to abhor [0887] him; therefore he shall be my servant [05650] for ever [05769].

²¹ And they said [0559] unto them, The LORD [03068] look [07200] upon you, and judge [08199]; because ye have made our savour [07381] to be abhorred [0887] in the eyes [05869] of Pharaoh [06547], and in the eyes [05869] of his servants [05650], to put [05414] a sword [02719] in their hand [03027] to slay [02026] us.

³⁰ And Jacob [03290] said [0559] to Simeon [08095] and Levi [03878], Ye have troubled [05916] me to make me to stink [0887] among the inhabitants [03427] of the land [0776], among the Canaanites [03669] and the Perizzites [06522]: and I being few [04962] in number [04557], they shall gather themselves together [0622] against me, and slay me [05221]; and I shall be destroyed [08045], I and my house [01004].

⁶ In that thou lovest [0157] thine enemies [08130], and hatest [08130] thy friends [0157]. For thou hast declared [05046] this day [03117], that thou regardest neither princes [08269] nor servants [05650]: for this day [03117] I perceive [03045], that if [03863] Absalom [053] had lived [02416], and all we had died [04191] this day [03117], then it had pleased thee well [03477] [05869].

⁵ They were all ashamed [03001] of a people [05971] that could not profit [03276] them, nor be an help [05828] nor profit [03276], but a shame [01322], and also a reproach [02781].

²⁶ He that wasteth [07703] his father [01], and chaseth away [01272] his mother [0517], is a son [01121] that causeth shame [0954], and bringeth reproach [02659].

⁵ He that gathereth [0103] in summer [07019] is a wise [07919] son [01121]: but he that sleepeth [07290] in harvest [07105] is a son [01121] that causeth shame [0954].

¹⁹ The lip [08193] of truth [0571] shall be established [03559] for ever [05703]: but a lying [08267] tongue [03956] is but for a moment [07280].

⁴ Blessed [0835] is the man whom thou choosest [0977], and causest to approach [07126] unto thee, that he may dwell [07931] in thy courts [02691]: we shall be satisfied [07646] with the goodness [02898] of thy house [01004], even of thy holy [06918] temple [01964].

⁹ Yea, mine own familiar [07965] friend [0376], in whom I trusted [0982], which did eat [0398] of my bread [03899], hath lifted up [01431] his heel [06119] against me.