Proverbs 27:6

6. The wounds Cutting rebukes from faithful friends are, from the nature of the case, few. They are never given except when necessity demands them. On the contrary, the honied compliments of a deceitful enemy have no similar restriction, and are multiplied for the purpose of covering up enmity and more effectually carrying out evil purposes.

Deceitful The critics generally prefer plentiful, profuse, or multiplied. See Ezekiel 35:13. The antithesis, as is often the case, lies between things implied and readily supplied by the mind. Zockler and others however give the sense “deceitful,” following the Vulgate fraudulentia. Compare Proverbs 26:23; Psalms 141:5.