Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirreth up strifes; but love throweth a cover over all transgressions.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
In Context
11A source of life is the mouth of the righteous; but the mouth of the wicked covereth violence.
Cross References
Proverbs 16:27An ungodly man diggeth up mischief, and on his lips there is as it were a scathing fire.
Proverbs 28:25He that hath an insatiable desire stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the Lord will be abundantly gratified.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 10:12
11 The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. See here, 1. How industrious a good man is, by communicating his goodness, to do good with it: His mouth, the outlet of his mind, is a well of life; it is a constant spring, whence issues good discourse for the edification of others, like streams that water the ground and make it fruitful, and for their consolation, like streams that quench the thirst of the weary traveller. It is like a well of life, that is pure and… Read the whole commentary →