Proverbs 13:5 (BSB)

The righteous hate falsehood, but the wicked bring shame and disgrace.

From Proverbs 13. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 13:5

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 13:5: Note, 1. Where grace reigns sin is loathsome. It is the undoubted character of every righteous man that he hates lying (that is, all sin, for every sin is a lie, and particularly all fraud and falsehood in commerce and conversation), not only that he will not tell a lie, but he abhors lying, from a rooted reigning principle of love to truth and justice, and conformity to God. 2.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 13:5: A righteous man hateth lying,.... Or, "a word of falsehood" (y); as being contrary to honour, truth, and conscience. He hates it in himself and others; he hates all sorts of lies, lies in common conversation, religious lies, doctrinal ones, false doctrines, lies spoken in hypocrisy; such as the followers of antichrist spread, being given up unto them that they might be damned, Ti1 4:2...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 13:5: loathsome . . . shame--better, causeth shame and reproach (compare Pro 19:26), by slander, &c., which the righteous hates.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 13:5: Pro 13:5 Two proverbs of the character of the righteous and of the effect of righteousness: A deceitful thing the righteous hateth; But the godless disgraceth and putteth to shame. With דּבּר in the sphere of an intelligible generality (as here of falsehood, or Psa 41:9 of worthlessness) a concrete event is in view, as with דּברי in the following plur.