Proverbs 10:13
In the lips of an intelligent [man] wisdom is found; but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
12Hatred stirreth up strifes; but love covereth all transgressions.
14The wise lay up knowledge; but the mouth of the fool is near destruction.
Cross References
Exodus 10:12And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out thy hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up over the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land all that the hail hath left.
Proverbs 6:32Whoso committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
Proverbs 10:10He that winketh with the eye causeth grief, and a prating fool shall fall.
Proverbs 10:31The mouth of a righteous [man] putteth forth wisdom; but the froward tongue shall be cut out.
Proverbs 15:23A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth; and a word in its season, how good is it!
Proverbs 17:10A reproof entereth more deeply into him that hath 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 →