Proverbs 12:22 (BSB)

Lying lips are detestable to the LORD, but those who deal faithfully are His delight.

From Proverbs 12. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 12:22

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 12:22: We are here taught, 1. To hate lying, and to keep at the utmost distance from it, because it is an abomination to the Lord, and renders those abominable in his sight that allow themselves in it, not only because it is a breach of his law, but because it is destructive to human society. 2.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 12:22: Lying lips are abomination to the Lord,.... Such that speak lies in common talk; and that deliver out doctrinal lies, false doctrines, lies in hypocrisy, as are the doctrines of Rome; these are abominable unto God; as being contrary to his nature as the God of truth; contrary to the Scriptures of truth he has endited; contrary to the truth of the Gospel he has...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 12:22: deal truly--or, "faithfully," that is, according to promises (compare Joh 3:21).
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 12:22: Pro 12:22 22 Lying lips are an abhorrence to Jahve, And they that deal truly are His delight. The frame of the distich is like Pro 11:1, Pro 11:20. אמוּנה is probity as the harmony between the words and the inward thoughts. The lxx, which translates ὁ δὲ ποιῶν πίστεις, had in view עשה אמונים (עשׂה אמוּנים, cf.