Proverbs 19:9Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers

Douay-RheimsHebrew (Masoretic text)

A false witness shall not be unpunished: and he that speaketh lies, shall perish.
Douay-Rheims

עֵ֣ד שְׁ֭קָרִים לֹ֣א יִנָּקֶ֑ה וְיָפִ֖יחַ כְּזָבִ֣ים יֹאבֵֽד׃
Hebrew (Masoretic text)

The Church Fathers on this verse

One Church Father comments on this verse

Nikolaj Velimirovic

20th centuryChurch Father

God and all the heavenly hosts see everything that dwells within man. Especially the guardian angel of man sees everything and cannot bear it when man brings forth from himself or claims about himself something that is not in him. He will abandon the man who stubbornly clings to his lie and leave him completely to the spirits of falsehood. Woe then to that man!

Cross references

Passages read together with this verse.

Rev 22:15Without are dogs and sorcerers and unchaste and murderers and servers of idols and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.
Prov 19:5A false witness shall not be unpunished: and he that speaketh lies, shall not escape.
Rev 21:8But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and whoremongers and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, they shall have their portion in the pool burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.
Jer 23:25I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, and say: I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
Jer 23:32Behold I am against the prophets that have lying dreams, saith the Lord: and tell them, and cause my people to err by their lying, and by their wonders: when I sent them not, nor commanded them, who have not profited this people at all, saith the Lord.
Jer 28:15And Jeremiah the prophet said to Hananias the prophet: Hear now, Hananias: the Lord hath not sent thee, and thou hast made this people to trust in a lie.
Jer 28:17And Hananias the prophet died in that year, in the seventh month.
2 Pet 2:1But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there shall be among you lying teachers who shall bring in sects of perdition and deny the Lord who bought them: bringing upon themselves swift destruction.