Proverbs 10:13
In the lips of him who has discernment wisdom is found, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
12Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all transgressions.
14Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of a foolish man is a present destruction.
Cross References
Exodus 10:12And LORD said to Moses, Stretch out thy hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail has left.
Proverbs 6:32He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who would destroy his own soul does it.
Proverbs 10:10He who winks with the eye causes sorrow. And a prating fool shall fall.
Proverbs 10:31The mouth of a righteous man brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue shall be cut off.
Proverbs 15:23A man has joy in the answer of his mouth, and a word in due season, how good it is!
Proverbs 17:10A rebuke enters deeper into him who has understanding than a hundred stripes into a fool.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 10:13
12 Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins. Here is, 1. The great mischief-maker, and that is malice. Even where there is no manifest occasion of strife, yet hatred seeks occasion and so stirs it up and does the devil's work. Those are the most spiteful ill-natured people that can be who take a pleasure in setting their neighbours together by the ears, by tale-bearing, evil surmises, and misrepresentations, blowing up the sparks of contention, which had lain buried, into a flame, at which, with an… Read the whole commentary →