Proverbs 10:13
In the lips of him who has knowledge wisdom is seen; but a rod is ready for the back of him who is without sense.
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In Context
12Hate is a cause of violent acts, but all errors are covered up by love.
14Knowledge is stored up by the wise, but the mouth of the foolish man is a destruction which is near.
Cross References
Exodus 10:12And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out over the land of Egypt so that the locusts may come up on the land for the destruction of every green plant in the land, even everything untouched by the ice-storm.
Proverbs 6:32He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul.
Proverbs 10:10He who makes signs with his eyes is a cause of trouble, but he who makes a man see his errors is a cause of peace.
Proverbs 10:31The mouth of the upright man is budding with wisdom, but the twisted tongue will be cut off.
Proverbs 15:23A man has joy in the answer of his mouth: and a word at the right time, how good it is!
Proverbs 17:10A word of protest goes deeper into one who has sense than a hundred blows into a foolish man.
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 →