Proverbs Chapter 19 verse 5 Holy Bible
A false witness shall not be unpunished; And he that uttereth lies shall not escape.
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A false witness will not go without punishment, and the breather out of deceit will not go free.
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A false witness shall not be held innocent, and he that uttereth lies shall not escape.
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A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.
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A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.
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A false witness is not acquitted, Whoso breatheth out lies is not delivered.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 5. - This verse is repeated below (ver. 9). It comes in awkwardly here, interrupting the connection which subsists between vers. 4 and 6. Its right place is doubtless where it occurs below. The Law not only strictly forbade false witness (Exodus 20:16; Exodus 23:1), but it enacted severe penalties against offenders in this particular (Deuteronomy 19:16, etc.); the lex talionis was to be enforced against them, they were to receive no pity: "Life shall be for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." He that speaketh lies shall not escape. The Septuagint confines the notion of this clause to false accusers, Ὁ δὲ ἐγκαλῶν ἀδίκως, "He who maketh an unjust charge shall not escape," which renders the two clauses almost synonymous. We make a distinction between the members by seeing in the former a denunciation against a false witness in a suit, and in the second a more sweeping menace against any one, whether accuser, slanderer, sycophant, who by lying injures a neighbour. The History of Susanna is brought forward in confirmation of the well deserved fate of false accusers. Ψευδὴς διαβολὴ τὸν βίον λυμαίνεται. "A slander is an outrage on man's life."
