Proverbs 10:13
In the lips of the wise, wisdom is discovered. And a rod is for the back of one who lacks heart.
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In Context
12Hatred rises up from disputes. And charity covers all offenses.
14The wise store away knowledge. But the mouth of the foolish is a neighbor to confusion.
Cross References
Exodus 10:12Then the Lord said to Moses: “Extend your hand over the land of Egypt, toward the locusts, so that they may rise up over it, and devour every plant which remains from the hail.”
Proverbs 6:32But whoever is an adulterer, because of the emptiness of his heart, will destroy his own soul.
Proverbs 10:10He who winks with the eye gives sorrow. And the foolish in lips shall be beaten.
Proverbs 10:31The mouth of the just shall bring forth wisdom. The tongue of the depraved will perish.
Proverbs 15:23A man rejoices in the verdict of his own mouth. And a word at the right time is best.
Proverbs 17:10A correction benefits more with a wise man, than a hundred stripes with 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 →