Proverbs 10:13
On the lips of the man of understanding there is found wisdom: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of sense.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
12Hatred stirreth up strifes; but love throweth a cover over all transgressions.
14Wise men treasure up knowledge; but the mouth of the foolish is an approaching terror.
Cross References
Exodus 10:12And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thy hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, and they shall come up over the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the earth, all that the hail hath left.
Proverbs 6:32But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh sense: he that is the destroyer of his soul, will alone do this.
Proverbs 10:10He that winketh with the eye causeth vexation; and he that is a fool in his speaking will stumble.
Proverbs 10:31The mouth of the just uttereth wisdom; but the tongue of perverseness shall be cut out.
Proverbs 15:23A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth; and a word [spoken] at the proper time, how good is it!
Proverbs 17:10A reproof penetrateth more deeply into a wise man, than a hundred stripes 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 →