Proverbs 15:4
A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it is a breaking of the spirit.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
In Context
3The eyes of LORD are in every place, keeping watch upon the evil and the good.
5A fool despises his father's correction, but he who regards reproof gets prudence.
Cross References
Genesis 3:22And LORD God said, Behold, the man has become as one of us--to know good and evil--and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever--
Psalms 109:22for I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
Proverbs 10:11The mouth of a righteous man is a fountain of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs 16:24Pleasant words are a honeycomb: Sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Proverbs 18:14The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity, but a broken spirit who can bear?
Malachi 4:2But to you who fear my name the sun of righteousness shall arise with healing in its wings, and ye shall go forth, and frolic as calves of the stall.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 15:4
The Righteous and the Wicked Contrasted. 3 The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. The great truths of divinity are of great use to enforce the precepts of morality, and none more than this—That the eye of God is always upon the children of men. 1. An eye to discern all, not only from which nothing can be concealed, but by which every thing is actually inspected, and nothing overlooked or looked slightly upon: The eyes of the Lord are in every place; for he not only sees all from… Read the whole commentary →