SEV Biblia, Chapter 17:4
¶ El malo está atento al labio inicuo; y el mentiroso escucha a la lengua maldiciente.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Proverbs 17:4
Verse 4. A wicked doer giveth heed ] An evil heart is disposed and ever ready to receive evil; and liars delight in lies.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 4. A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips , etc.] A man of an ill spirit, of a mischievous disposition, that delights in doing wickedness; he carefully attends to such as speak falsehood; he listens to lies and calumnies, loves to hear ill reports of persons, and takes pleasure in spreading them to the hurt of their characters; and men of bad hearts and lives give heed to seducing spirits, to false teachers, to inch as speak lies in hypocrisy, who sooth and harden them in their wickedness; [and] a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue : or, “to a tongue of destruction” f483 ; a culumniating, backbiting tongue, which destroys the good name and reputation of men; and he that is given to lying is made up of lying, or is a lie itself, as the word signifies; who roves and makes a lie, as antichrist and his followers; such an one hearkens diligently to everything that may detract from the character of those especially he bears an ill will to: or it may be better rendered, “he that hearkens to a lie [gives heed] to a naughty tongue” f484 ; for a lying tongue is a naughty one, evil in itself, pernicious in its effects and consequences.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 4 - Flatterers, especially false teachers, are welcome to those that liv in sin.
Original Hebrew
מרע 7489 מקשׁיב 7181 על 5921 שׂפת 8193 און 205 שׁקר 8267 מזין 238 על 5921 לשׁון 3956 הות׃ 1942
