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Proverbs 10:18

People sometimes lie to hide their hatred, but saying bad things about someone is even more foolish.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Falsehood;   Fool;   Hatred;   Slander;   Thompson Chain Reference - Evil;   Fools;   Silence-Speech;   Slander;   Wisdom-Folly;   The Topic Concordance - Foolishness;   Lying/lies;   Speech/communication;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Fools;   Hatred;   Lying;   Slander;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Proverb, the Book of;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Gossip;   Tongue;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Pentateuch;   Proverbs, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Slothful;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Prov'erbs, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Fool;   Lip;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Calumny;   Death, Views and Customs Concerning;   Joy;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The one who conceals hatred has lying lips,and whoever spreads slander is a fool.
Hebrew Names Version
He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.
King James Version
He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
English Standard Version
The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever utters slander is a fool.
New American Standard Bible
One who conceals hatred has lying lips, And one who spreads slander is a fool.
New Century Version
Whoever hides hate is a liar. Whoever tells lies is a fool.
New English Translation
The one who conceals hatred utters lies, and the one who spreads slander is certainly a fool.
Amplified Bible
He who hides hatred has lying lips, And he who spreads slander is a fool.
World English Bible
He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He that dissembleth hatred with lying lips, and he that inuenteth slaunder, is a foole.
Legacy Standard Bible
He who covers up hatred has lying lips,And he who spreads a bad report is a fool.
Berean Standard Bible
The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool.
Contemporary English Version
You can hide your hatred by telling lies, but you are a fool to spread lies.
Complete Jewish Bible
He who covers up hate has lips that lie, and anyone who slanders is a fool.
Darby Translation
He that covereth hatred hath lying lips, and he that sendeth forth a slander is a fool.
George Lamsa Translation
The lips of the wicked are full of deceits, and he who utters a curse is a fool.
Good News Translation
Anyone who hides hatred is a liar. Anyone who spreads gossip is a fool.
Lexham English Bible
He who conceals hatred has lips of deceit, and he who utters slander—he is a fool.
Literal Translation
He who hides hatred with lying lips, and he who sends out a slander, he is a fool.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Dissemblynge lippes kepe hatred secretly, and he that speaketh eny slaunder, is a foole.
American Standard Version
He that hideth hatred is of lying lips; And he that uttereth a slander is a fool.
Bible in Basic English
Hate is covered up by the lips of the upright man, but he who lets out evil about another is foolish.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He that hideth hatred is of lying lips; and he that uttereth a slander is a fool.
King James Version (1611)
Hee that hideth hatred with lying lippes, and he that vttereth a slander, is a foole.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He that hydeth hatred with lying lippes, and he that speaketh slaunder, is a foole.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Righteous lips cover enmity; but they that utter railings are most foolish.
English Revised Version
He that hideth hatred is of lying lips; and he that uttereth a slander is a fool.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
False lippis hiden hatrede; he that bringith forth dispisinge is vnwijs.
Update Bible Version
He that hides hatred is of lying lips; And he that utters a slander is a fool.
Webster's Bible Translation
He that hideth hatred [with] lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, [is] a fool.
New King James Version
Whoever hides hatred has lying lips, And whoever spreads slander is a fool.
New Living Translation
Hiding hatred makes you a liar; slandering others makes you a fool.
New Life Bible
He who hides hate has lying lips, and he who talks to hurt people is a fool.
New Revised Standard
Lying lips conceal hatred, and whoever utters slander is a fool.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He that concealeth hatred, hath false lips, and he that sendeth forth slander, the same, is a dullard.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Lying lips hide hatred: he that uttereth reproach, is foolish.
Revised Standard Version
He who conceals hatred has lying lips, and he who utters slander is a fool.
Young's Literal Translation
Whoso is covering hatred with lying lips, And whoso is bringing out an evil report is a fool.
THE MESSAGE
Liars secretly hoard hatred; fools openly spread slander.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He who conceals hatred has lying lips, And he who spreads slander is a fool.

Contextual Overview

18 People sometimes lie to hide their hatred, but saying bad things about someone is even more foolish.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that hideth: Proverbs 26:24-26, 1 Samuel 18:21, 1 Samuel 18:22, 1 Samuel 18:29, 2 Samuel 3:27, 2 Samuel 11:8-15, 2 Samuel 13:23-29, 2 Samuel 20:9, 2 Samuel 20:10, Psalms 5:9, Psalms 12:2, Psalms 55:21, Luke 20:20, Luke 20:21

that uttereth: Psalms 15:3, Psalms 50:20, Psalms 101:5

Reciprocal: Genesis 37:20 - Some Genesis 39:14 - he came Exodus 20:16 - General Exodus 23:1 - shalt not 2 Samuel 13:22 - hated Proverbs 26:23 - General Proverbs 27:6 - the kisses Jeremiah 9:4 - walk Jeremiah 20:10 - Report Ezekiel 22:9 - men that carry tales Ephesians 4:31 - evil speaking 1 Timothy 3:11 - not

Cross-References

Genesis 10:16
Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites,
Genesis 10:17
Hivites, Arkites, the Sinites,
Numbers 34:8
From Mount Hor it will go to Lebo Hamath, and then to Zedad.
Joshua 18:22
Beth Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,
2 Samuel 8:9
King Toi of Hamath heard that David had defeated Hadadezer's whole army.
2 Kings 17:24
The king of Assyria took the Israelites out of Samaria and brought in other people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim. They took over Samaria and lived in the cities around it.
2 Kings 17:30
The people of Babylon made the false god Succoth Benoth. The people of Cuthah made the false god Nergal. The people of Hamath made the false god Ashima.
2 Chronicles 13:4
Then Abijah stood on Mount Zemaraim in the hill country of Ephraim and said, "Jeroboam and all Israel, listen to me!
Isaiah 10:9
The city of Calno is no better than the city of Carchemish. Arpad is like Hamath, and Samaria is like Damascus.
Ezekiel 27:8
Men from Sidon and Arvad rowed your boats for you. Tyre, your wise men were the pilots on your ships.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He that hideth hatred [with] lying lips,.... Or he whose "lying lips hide hatred", which is much the same; who pretends to be a friend, and outwardly behaves as one, but inwardly nourishes and cherishes hatred in his heart, which he covers and conceals, till he has a proper opportunity of showing it; as Absalom to Ammon, Joab to Amasa, the men of Anathoth to Jeremiah, and Judas to Christ; see

Proverbs 26:24. Or, "he that hideth hatred [is a man of] lying lips" m; he is a liar, as the person next described is a fool. And he that uttereth slander is a fool; that brings it out by wholesale, and hides it not; who openly defames his neighbour, and in the most public manner; and with a multitude of words detracts from his good name, credit, and reputation, and loads him with calumny and reproach; such a man is a fool, a very wicked man: yea, not only the public slanderer, but the secret dissembler, who thinks himself a cunning man because he hides himself; each of these is a fool, the one as well as the other. Gersom thinks there is a comparison made between the dissembler and the slanderer; the one being a liar, and the other a fool; and that the former is more abominable and pernicious than the latter.

m "Est vir laborium falsitatis", Piscator, "vel fallacium", Gejerus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Better, He who hideth hatred is of lying lips. He who cherishes hatred, is either a knave, or a fool - a knave if he hides, a fool if he utters it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 10:18. He that hideth — This is a common case. How many, when full of resentment, and deadly hatred, meditating revenge and cruelty, and sometimes even murder, have pretended that they thought nothing of the injury they had sustained; had passed by the insult, &c.! Thus lying lips covered the malevolence of a wicked heart.


 
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