Proverbs 15:4
A marpeh lashon (a tongue of healing) is an Etz Chayyim, 1 but selef (perversity) therein is crushing to the ruach (spirit). 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
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 eynayim of Hashem are in kol makom (every place), 1 watching the ra'im and the tovim. 1
5A fool spurns his musar av, 1 but he that is shomer over tokhakhat (reproof) is prudent. 1
Cross References
Genesis 3:22And Hashem Elohim said, See, HaAdam is become like one of Us, knowing tov v'rah; and now, lest he put forth his yad, and take also of HaEtz HaChayyim, and eat, and chai l'olam (live forever);
Psalms 109:22For I am oni and evyon, 1 and my lev is wounded within me. 1
Proverbs 10:11The peh (mouth) of a tzaddik is a Makor Chayyim, 1 but chamas covereth the peh (mouth) of the resha'im. 1
Proverbs 16:24Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, 1 sweet to the nefesh, and marpeh (healing) to the atzmot (bones). 1
Proverbs 18:14The ruach ish will sustain him in sickness, 1 but a crushed ruach who can bear? 1
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 →