The Daily Meditation - Proverbs 27:5-6

5 Open rebuke is better than secret love.
6 The wounds of a lover are faithful, and the
kisses of an enemy are pleasant. (a)

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(a) Editor’s note and thought - In the KJV the word “pleasant” is replaced by the word “deceitful“. This in it’s way would make more sense. However, I hold that the concept of an enemy kissing one, in as a “false” kiss, is more of an indication that only God can be of trust-worthiness. As such, His rebukes are more loving, than any kiss from any “friend”.

Upon looking up the word “pleasant” in Strong’s Concordance, one finds that there is no equivalent of that word in the Greek. (I use the Greek translations from time to time because it was written in Greek, before Latin, as the first Hebrew translations were in Greek). I then tried the word “pleasing” and found the below translation and definition;

authades ow-thad'-ace; self-pleasing, i.e. arrogant:--self-willed.

This seems to re-enforce the meaning of “pleasant” being used in a manner that infers a false pleasure and by extension a false friend.