John Trapp on Proverbs 13:5

Verſ. 5. A righteous man hateth lying] Hateth it as hell, Rom. 12.9. [non-Latin text not transcribed] I hate and abhor lying ſaith David, Pſal. 119.163. and yet among other corruptions, hee had an inclination to this ſin. See how roundly hee tells three or four lyes together, 1 Sam. 21.2.8. and 1 Sam. 27.8, 10. but hee both hated it in himſelf, and prayed againſt it, Pſal. 1[illegible: 1 letter]9.29.

But a wicked man is loathſome] Stinks above ground; a lyer eſpecially is looked upon as a Peſt. Riches cannot make a man ſo graceful, as lying will diſgrace him; for a poor man walking in his integrity, is better than a rich man that is a lyer, Prov. 19.22. Hence the lyer denies his own lye, becauſe hee is aſhamed to bee taken with it. Some read it thus; A wicked man maketh others loathſome, and caſteth ſhame upon them, ſc. by raiſing or reporting lyes of them, by blaſting or blemiſhing their good names. Thus Core and his Complices ſought to caſt an odium on Moſes; the Phariſees upon our Saviour, the Arrians upon Athanaſius, the Papiſts upon Wicliffe, whom Bi[illegible: 1 letter]ius ſlanders for his miſſing the Biſhoprick of Worceſter, to have fallen upon that ſucceſsful contradiction;Epiphan. like as the ſpiteful Jews ſaid Paul did, becauſe hee could not obtain the High-prieſts daughter to wife.