Proverbs 10:13
Wisdom is found on the lips of the discerning, but a rod is for the back of him who lacks judgment.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
12Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.
14The wise store up knowledge, but the mouth of the fool invites destruction.
Cross References
Exodus 10:12Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt, so that the locusts may swarm over it and devour every plant in the land—everything that the hail has left behind.”
Proverbs 6:32He who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself.
Proverbs 10:10He who winks the eye causes grief, and foolish lips will come to ruin.
Proverbs 10:31The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but a perverse tongue will be cut out.
Proverbs 15:23A man takes joy in a fitting reply— and how good is a timely word!
Proverbs 17:10A rebuke cuts into a man of discernment deeper than a hundred lashes cut 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 →