Proverbs 22:10
Cast out the scoffer, and contention will go out, yea, strife and reproach will cease.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.
In Context
9He who has a bountiful eye shall be blessed, for he gives of his bread to the poor.
11He who loves pureness of heart, [for] the grace of his lips, the king will be his friend.
Cross References
Judges 9:55And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man to his place.
Nehemiah 13:28And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. Therefore I chased him from me.
Proverbs 18:6A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for stripes.
Proverbs 26:20For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, contention ceases.
1 Corinthians 5:5to deliver such a man to Satan for destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 22:10
9 He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor. Here is, 1. The description of a charitable man; he has a bountiful eye, opposed to the evil eye ( ch. xxiii. 6 ) and the same with the single eye ( Matt. vi. 22 ),—an eye that seeks out objects of charity, besides those that offer themselves,—an eye that, upon the sight of one in want and misery, affects the heart with compassion,—an eye that with the alms gives a pleasant look, which makes the alms doubly acceptable. He has… Read the whole commentary →