Proverbs 22:10
Drive out the mocker, and conflict will depart; even quarreling and insults will cease.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.
In Context
9A generous man will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.
11He who loves a pure heart and gracious lips will have the king for a friend.
Cross References
Judges 9:55And when the Israelites saw that Abimelech was dead, they all went home.
Nehemiah 13:28Even one of the sons of Jehoiada son of Eliashib the high priest had become a son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. Therefore I drove him away from me.
Proverbs 18:6A fool’s lips bring him strife, and his mouth invites a beating.
Proverbs 26:20Without wood, a fire goes out; without gossip, a conflict ceases.
1 Corinthians 5:5hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.
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 →