Proverbs 10:13
Wisdom comes from people with good judgment, but stupid people are punished with a rod.
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12Hatred causes conflict, but love covers all wrongs.
14Wise people accumulate knowledge, but the chattering of stupid people is a prelude to disaster.
Cross References
Exodus 10:12The Lord told Moses, “Lift up your hand over Egypt, so that the locusts may swarm over it and eat every plant in the country—everything that was left by the hail.”
Proverbs 6:32Any man who commits adultery with a woman has no sense; he who does so destroys himself.
Proverbs 10:10People who wink slyly cause trouble, but someone who gives a strong rebuke brings peace.
Proverbs 10:31What good people say produces wisdom, but liars will have their tongues cut out.
Proverbs 15:23A good answer makes people happy—it's great to say the right thing at the right moment!
Proverbs 17:10A reprimand hits a thinking person more than one hundred blows hit someone stupid.
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 →