“Testis falsus non erit impunitus, et qui mendacia loquitur non effugiet.”
“A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape. unpunished: Heb. held innocent”
“A false witness will not go unpunished, and one who utters lies will not escape.”
“A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.”
“A false witness shall not be unpunished; And he that uttereth lies shall not escape.”
Out. So David discovered the meaning of the Thecuite, 2 Kings xiv. 18. A wise politician carefully examines everything in a foreign court.
Here is, 1. A repetition of what was said before (v. 5), for we have need to be again and again warned of the danger of the sin of lying and false-witness-bearing, since nothing is of more fatal consequence. 2. An addition to it in one word; there it was said, He that speaks lies shall not escape, and intimated that he shall be punished. Here it is said, His punishment shall be such as will be his destruction: he shall perish; the lies he forged against others will be his own ruin. It is a damning destroying sin.