SEV Biblia, Chapter 10:18
¶ El que encubre el odio es de labios mentirosos; y el que echa mala fama es loco.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Proverbs 10:18
Verse 18. He that hideth ] This is a common case. How many, when full of resentment, and deadly hatred, meditating revenge and cruelty, and sometimes even murder, have pretended that they thought nothing of the injury they had sustained; had passed by the insult, &c.! Thus lying lips covered the malevolence of a wicked heart.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 18. He that hideth hatred [with] lying lips , etc.] 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” f277 ; 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.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 18 - He is especially a fool who thinks to hide anything from God; an malice is no better.
Original Hebrew
מכסה 3680 שׂנאה 8135 שׂפתי 8193 שׁקר 8267 ומוצא 3318 דבה 1681 הוא 1931 כסיל׃ 3684
