King James Version
Proverbs 20:6 in the King James Version says “Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find? goodness: or, bounty” — study this verse from Proverbs chapter 20 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find? goodness: or, bounty”
Proverbs 20:6 · KJV
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing. cold: or, winter
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find? goodness: or, bounty
The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“will proclaim”
H7121to call out to (i.e., properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
“every one”
H376a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
“his own goodness”
H2617kindness; by implication (towards god) piety; rarely (by opposition) reproof, or (subject.) beauty
“every one”
H376a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
“but a faithful”
H529established, i.e., (figuratively) trusty; also (abstractly) trustworthiness
who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix
“who can find”
H4672properly, to come forth to, i.e., appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e., find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present
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