Proverbs 10:13
Wisdom is found in the lips of the intelligent, || And a rod [is] for the back of him who is lacking understanding.
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In Context
12Hatred awakens contentions, || And love covers over all transgressions.
14The wise lay up knowledge, and the mouth of a fool [is] near ruin.
Cross References
Exodus 10:12And YHWH says to Moses, “Stretch out your hand against the land of Egypt for the locust, and it goes up against the land of Egypt, and eats every herb of the land—all that the hail has left.”
Proverbs 6:32He who commits adultery [with] a woman lacks heart, || He who does it is destroying his soul.
Proverbs 10:10Whoever is winking the eye gives grief, || And a talkative fool kicks.
Proverbs 10:31The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, || And the tongue of contrariness is cut out.
Proverbs 15:23Joy [is] to a man in the answer of his mouth, || And a word in its season—how good!
Proverbs 17:10Rebuke comes down on the intelligent || More than one hundred stripes on 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 →