Proverbs 11:20 (BSB)

The perverse in heart are an abomination to the LORD, but the blameless in their walk are His delight.

From Proverbs 11. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 11:20

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 11:20: It concerns us to know what God hates and what he loves, that we may govern ourselves accordingly, may avoid his displeasure and recommend ourselves to his favour. Now here we are told, 1. That nothing is more offensive to God than hypocrisy and double-dealing, for these are signified by the word which we translate frowardness, pretending justice, but intending wrong, walking in crooked ways, to avoid discovery.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 11:20: They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the Lord,.... Such as are men of perverse dispositions and principles; that are contrary to the light of nature, the law of God, and Gospel of Christ; who, like the Jews of old, please not God, and are contrary to all men, to all good men; as antichrist and his followers, these work abomination, and...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 11:20: (Compare Pro 11:5). froward--as in Pro 2:15, opposed to the simplicity and purity of the upright. in their way--or, "conduct."
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 11:20: Pro 11:20 The following proverbs are especially directed, as connected with this כן, against the contradiction of the external appearance and of the masked internal nature. 20 An abomination to Jahve are the crookedly dishonest of heart, And they who are of honest walk are his delight.