Proverbs 15:4
A healing [word] of the tongue is a tree of life; but perverseness therein is a breach to the spirit.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
In Context
3In every place are the eyes of the Lord, looking on the bad and the good.
Cross References
Genesis 3:22And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever—
Psalms 109:22For poor and needy am I, and my heart is deeply wounded within me.
Proverbs 10:11A source of life is the mouth of the righteous; but the mouth of the wicked covereth violence.
Proverbs 16:24[Like] the droppings of honey are pleasant sayings, sweet to the soul, and healing to the bones.
Proverbs 18:14The spirit of a man will readily bear his disease; but a depressed spirit who can bear:
Malachi 4:2(3:20) But there shall rise unto you that fear my name the sun of righteousness with healing in his wings: and ye will go forth, and grow fat as calves of the stall.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 15:4
The Righteous and the Wicked Contrasted. 3 The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. The great truths of divinity are of great use to enforce the precepts of morality, and none more than this—That the eye of God is always upon the children of men. 1. An eye to discern all, not only from which nothing can be concealed, but by which every thing is actually inspected, and nothing overlooked or looked slightly upon: The eyes of the Lord are in every place; for he not only sees all from… Read the whole commentary →