Proverbs 22:10
Cast out the scoffer, and contention shall go out with him, and quarrels and reproaches shall cease.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.
In Context
11He that loveth cleanness of heart, for the grace of his lips shall have the king for his friend.
Cross References
Judges 9:55And when he was dead, all the men of Israel that were with him, returned to their homes.
Nehemiah 13:28And one of the sons of Joiada the son of Eliasib the high priest, was son in law to Sanaballat the Horonite, and I drove him from me.
Proverbs 18:6The lips of a fool intermeddle with strife: and his mouth provoketh quarrels.
Proverbs 26:20When the wood faileth, the fire shall go out: and when the talebearer is taken away, contentions shall cease.
1 Corinthians 5:5To deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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 →