Proverbs 24:26 (BSB)

An honest answer given is like a kiss on the lips.

From Proverbs 24. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 24:26

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 24:23-26: Here are lessons for wise men, that is, judges and princes. As subjects must do their duty, and be obedient to magistrates, so magistrates must do their duty in administering justice to their subjects, both in pleas of the crown and causes between party and party. These are lessons for them. 1.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 24:26: Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause,.... Unless forced unto it, except there is some urgent reason for it; not upon any trivial account, or in any frivolous matter; never appear forward and eager to bear witness against him, and, whenever obliged to it, be not a false witness, but speak truth, whether thy neighbour be a friend or a foe; and deceive...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 24:26: kiss his lips--love and obey, do homage (Psa 2:12; Sol 8:1). right answer--literally, "plain words" (compare Pro 8:9), opposed to deceptive, or obscure.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 24:26: Pro 24:26 Then follows a distich with the watchword נצחים: 26 He kisseth the lips Who for the end giveth a right answer. The lxx, Syr., and Targ. translate: one kisseth the lips who, or: of those who...; but such a meaning is violently forced into the word (in that case the expression would have been שׂפתי משׁיב or שׂפתים משׁיבים).