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Proverbs 14:5

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

A repetition of Proverbs 12:17 (see also Proverbs 6:19). A faithful witness cannot be induced to swerve from the truth by threat or bribe. Will utter; Hebrew, breatheth forth. A false witness with no compulsion, as it were naturally, puts forth lies (comp.

Proverbs 12:25; Proverbs 19:5). Septuagint, " An unrighteous witness kindleth ( ἐκκαίει) falsehood."

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