Proverbs 13:5

“A righteous [man] hateth lying, etc.] Or, “a word of falsehood”f360; 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, (<540402>1 Timothy 4:2 <530211>2 Thessalonians 2:11,12); these are an abomination to God and all good men, (<662127>Revelation 21:27); but a wicked [man] is loathsome, and cometh to shame; or, “causes” or “spreads a stink”f361: all wicked men are loathsome and abominable, being very corrupt in principle and…”

“loathsome . . . shame--better, causeth shame and reproach (compare Pro 19:26), by slander, &c., which the righteous hates.”

“righteous: Pro 6:17, Pro 30:8; Psa 119:163; Eph 4:25; Col 3:9 is: Eze 6:9, Eze 20:43, Eze 36:31; Zac 11:8 and: Pro 3:35; Dan 12:2; Rev 21:8 Proverbs 13:6”

“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. a general fact is separated into its individual instances and circumstances (vid., at Psa 65:4); for דבר means not only the word in which the soul reveals itself, but also any fact in which an inner principle or a general fact or a whole comes forth to view. The righteous hateth all that bears in it the character of a falsehood (punctuate דּבר־שׁקר…”