Proverbs 12:19 (BSB)

Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment.

From Proverbs 12. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 12:19

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 12:19: Be it observed, to the honour of truth, that sacred thing, 1. That, if truth be spoken, it will hold good, and, whoever may be disobliged by it and angry at it, yet it will keep its ground. Great is the truth and will prevail. What is true will be always true; we may abide by it, and need not fear being disproved and put to shame. 2.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 12:19: The lip of truth shall be established for ever,.... The man that speaks truth is and will be established in his credit and reputation among men; he is uniform and all of a piece, and what he says is believed; truth, though it may be opposed, will prevail against lies and falsehood; the word of truth, the Gospel of Christ, will stand for ever; the...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 12:19: Words of truth are consistent, and stand all tests, while lies are soon discovered and exposed.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 12:19: Pro 12:19 19 The lip of truth endures for ever, But the lying tongue only while I wink with the eye. None of the old translators understood the phrase ועד־ארגּיעה; the Venet. also, which follows Kimchi’s first explanation, is incorrect: ἕως ῥήξεως, till I split (shatter) it (the tongue). Abulwalîd is nearer the correct rendering when he takes ארגיעה as a noun = רגע with He parag. Ahron b.