Proverbs 10:11
A source of life is the mouth of the righteous; but the mouth of the wicked covereth violence.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
In Context
10He that winketh with the eye causeth vexation; and he that is a fool in his speaking will stumble.
12Hatred stirreth up strifes; but love throweth a cover over all transgressions.
Cross References
Psalms 37:30The mouth of the righteous uttereth wisdom, and his tongue speaketh what is just.
Proverbs 10:6Blessings come upon the head of the righteous; but the mouth of the wicked covereth violence.
Proverbs 10:32The lips of the righteous know [how to obtain] favor; but the mouth of the wicked [speaketh] perverseness.
Proverbs 15:4A healing [word] of the tongue is a tree of life; but perverseness therein is a breach to the spirit.
Proverbs 16:22Intelligence is a source of life unto its possessor; but the correction of fools is folly.
Proverbs 20:15There is gold, and a multitude of pearls; but a precious vessel are the lips of knowledge.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 10:11
10 He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall. Mischief is here said to attend, 1. Politic, designing, self-disguising sinners: He that winks with the eye, as if he took no notice of you, when at the same time he is watching an opportunity to do you an ill turn, that makes signs to his accomplices when to come into assist him in executing his wicked projects, which are all carried on by trick and artifice, causes sorrow both to others and to himself. Ingenuity will be no excuse for… Read the whole commentary →