Proverbs 30:20 (BSB)

This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’

From Proverbs 30. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 30:20

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 30:18-23: Here is, I. An account of four things that are unsearchable, too wonderful to be fully known. And here, 1. The first three are natural things, and are only designed as comparisons for the illustration of the last. We cannot trace, (1.) An eagle in the air.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 30:20: Such is the way of an adulterous woman,.... It is equally unknown as the way of a man with a maid; it is difficult to detect her, she takes so much care and caution, and uses so many artful methods to conceal her wickedness from her husband; though she lives in adultery, it is in a most private manner, and carried on so secretly and...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 30:20: she eateth . . . mouth--that is, she hides the evidences of her shame and professes innocence.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 30:20: Such [is] the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness. (k) She has her desires, and later counterfeits as though she were an honest woman.