Proverbs 8:7 (BSB)
For my mouth will speak the truth, and wickedness is detestable to my lips.
From Proverbs 8. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Proverbs 8:7
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 8:1-11: The will of God revealed to us for our salvation is here largely represented to us as easy to be known and understood, that none may have an excuse for their ignorance or error, and as worthy to be embraced, that none may have an excuse for their carelessness and unbelief. I.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 8:7: For my mouth shall speak truth,.... And nothing but the truth; and nothing more or less can be spoken by Wisdom, or Christ, who is truth itself; nothing else can come out of his mouth, or drop from his lips; all the doctrines of Christ are agreeable to the Scriptures of truth, and are what the Spirit of truth leads into; and the whole is...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 8:7: For . . . truth--literally, "My palate shall meditate," or (as Orientals did) "mutter," my thoughts expressed only to myself are truth. wickedness--specially falsehood, as opposed to truth.
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 8:4-9: Pro 8:4-9 Now begins the discourse. The exordium summons general attention to it with the emphasis of its absolute truth: 4 “To you, ye men, is my discourse addressed, And my call is to the children of men! 5 Apprehend, O ye simple ones, what wisdom is; And, ye fools what understanding is. 6 Hear, for I will speak princely things, And the opening of my lips is upright.