Proverbs 15:4
A healed tongue [is] a tree of life, || And perverseness in it—a breach in the spirit.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
In Context
3The eyes of YHWH are in every place, || Watching the evil and the good.
5A fool despises the instruction of his father, || And whoever is regarding reproof is prudent.
Cross References
Genesis 3:22And YHWH God says, “Behold, the man was as one of Us, as to the knowledge of good and evil; and now, lest he send forth his hand, and has also taken from the Tree of Life, and eaten, and lived for all time.”
Psalms 109:22For I [am] poor and needy, || And my heart has been pierced in my midst.
Proverbs 10:11A fountain of life [is] the mouth of the righteous, || And the mouth of the wicked covers violence.
Proverbs 16:24Sayings of pleasantness [are] a honeycomb, || Sweet to the soul, and healing to the bone.
Proverbs 18:14The spirit of a man sustains his sickness, || And who bears a struck spirit?
Malachi 4:2But for you fearing My Name, || The Sun of Righteousness has risen with healing in His wings, || And you have gone forth, || And have bounded as calves of a 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 →