The righteous person hates anything false, ¹  but the wicked person acts in shameful disgrace. ² 

biblegateway Pro 13:5

A righteous man hates falsehood, But a wicked man acts disgustingly and shamefully.

The righteous hate lying, but the wicked act disgustingly and disgracefully.

A righteous person hates lying, but a wicked person behaves with shame and disgrace.

biblegateway Pro 13:5

The righteous hate what is false, but the wicked bring shame and disgrace.

The righteous hates falsehood, but the wicked brings shame and disgrace.

bibleoremus Pro 13:5

The righteous hate falsehood, but the wicked act shamefully and disgracefully.

The righteous hate falsehood; the actions of the wicked are base and disgraceful.

biblegateway Pro 13:5

A righteous man hates lying, But a wicked man is loathsome and comes to shame.

A righteous [man] hateth lying: but a wicked [man] is loathsome, and cometh to shame.

biblegateway Pro 13:5

The righteous person hates anything false, ¹  but the wicked person acts in shameful disgrace. ² 

¹ tn Heb “a word of falsehood.” The genitive “falsehood” functions as an attributive genitive. The construct noun דְּבַר (dÿvar) means either “word” or “thing.” Hence, the phrase means “a false word” or “a false thing.”

² tc The versions render this phrase variously: “is ashamed and without confidence” (LXX); “is ashamed and put to the blush” (Tg. Prov 13:5); “confounds and will be confounded” (Vulgate). The variety is due in part to confusion of בָּאַשׁ (ba’sh, “to stink”) and בּוֹשׁ (bosh, “to be ashamed”). Cf. NASB “acts disgustingly and shamefully.”

² tn Heb “acts shamefully and disgracefully.” The verb בָּאַשׁ (ba’ash) literally means “to cause a stink; to emit a stinking odor” (e.g., Exod 5:21; Eccl 10:1) and figuratively means “to act shamefully” (BDB 92 s.v.). The verb וְיַחְפִּיר (vÿyakhppir) means “to display shame.” Together, they can be treated as a verbal hendiadys: “to act in disgraceful shame,” or more colorfully “to make a shameful smell,” or as W. McKane has it, “spread the smell of scandal” (Proverbs [OTL], 460). W. G. Plaut says, “Unhappily, the bad odor adheres not only to the liar but also to the one about whom he lies – especially when the lie is a big one” (Proverbs, 152).