Proverbios 10:18

18 Encubrir el odio te hace un mentiroso;
difamar a otros te hace un necio.

Proverbios 10:18 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 10:18

He that hideth hatred [with] lying lips
Or he whose "lying lips hide hatred", which is much the same; who pretends to be a friend, and outwardly behaves as one, but inwardly nourishes and cherishes hatred in his heart, which he covers and conceals, till he has a proper opportunity of showing it; as Absalom to Ammon, Joab to Amasa, the men of Anathoth to Jeremiah, and Judas to Christ; see ( Proverbs 26:24-26 ) . Or, "he that hideth hatred [is a man of] lying lips" {m}; he is a liar, as the person next described is a fool. And he that uttereth slander is a fool; that brings it out by wholesale, and hides it not; who openly defames his neighbour, and in the most public manner; and with a multitude of words detracts from his good name, credit, and reputation, and loads him with calumny and reproach; such a man is a fool, a very wicked man: yea, not only the public slanderer, but the secret dissembler, who thinks himself a cunning man because he hides himself; each of these is a fool, the one as well as the other. Gersom thinks there is a comparison made between the dissembler and the slanderer; the one being a liar, and the other a fool; and that the former is more abominable and pernicious than the latter.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 "Est vir laborium falsitatis", Piscator, "vel fallacium", Gejerus.

Proverbios 10:18 In-Context

16 Las ganancias de los justos realzan sus vidas,
pero la gente malvada derrocha su dinero en el pecado.

17 Los que aceptan la disciplina van por el camino que lleva a la vida,
pero los que no hacen caso a la corrección se descarriarán.

18 Encubrir el odio te hace un mentiroso;
difamar a otros te hace un necio.

19 Hablar demasiado conduce al pecado.
Sé prudente y mantén la boca cerrada.

20 Las palabras del justo son como la plata refinada;
el corazón del necio no vale nada.