Proverbs 26:26
Good News Translation
He may disguise his hatred, but everyone will see the evil things he does.

New Revised Standard Version
though hatred is covered with guile, the enemy’s wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.

Contemporary English Version
Everyone will see through those evil plans.

New American Bible
Hatred can be concealed by pretense, but malice will be revealed in the assembly.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that covereth hatred deceitfully, his malice shall be laid open in the public assembly.

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He that covereth hatred deceitfully, his malice shall be laid open in the public assembly.

Genesis 4:8 And Cain said to Abel his brother: Let us go forth abroad. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and slew him.

1 Samuel 18:17,21 And Saul said to David: Behold my elder daughter Merob, her will I give thee to wife: only be a valiant man, and fight the battles of the Lord. Now Saul said within himself: Let not my hand be upon him, but let the hands of the Philistines be upon him. . . .

2 Samuel 3:27 And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside to the middle of the gate, to speak to him treacherously: and he stabbed him there in the groin, and he died, in revenge of the blood of Asael his brother.

2 Samuel 13:22-28 But Absalom spoke not to Ammon neither good nor evil: for Absalom hated Ammon because he had ravished his sister Thamar. . . .

Psalm 55:21-23 They are divided by the wrath of his countenance, and his heart hath drawn near. His words are smoother than oil, and the same are darts. . . .

Context
Similitudes and Instructions
25When he shall speak low, trust him not: because there are seven mischiefs in his heart. 26He that covereth hatred deceitfully, his malice shall be laid open in the public assembly.27He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and he that rolleth a stone, it shall return to him.…
Cross References
Matthew 23:28
So you also outwardly indeed appear to men just: but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

Luke 8:17
For there is not any thing secret that shall not be made manifest, nor hidden that shall not be known and come abroad.

Proverbs 10:9
He that winketh with the eye, shall cause sorrow: and the foolish in lips shall be beaten.

Proverbs 26:25
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