Proverbs 10:13
Those who have good sense say [MTY] what is wise, but people who do not have good sense must be punished.
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Exodus 10:12Then Yahweh said to Moses/me, “Reach out your hand as though you were stretching it over the land to welcome the locusts. They will come to the country of Egypt and eat every plant that is left in the land, every plant that the hail has not destroyed.”
Proverbs 6:32But a man who commits adultery with some woman is very foolish, because he is destroying his own self/soul by what he is doing.
Proverbs 10:10Those who signal with their eyes that they are about to do something that is wrong cause trouble, but those who rebuke others truthfully cause them to be peaceful.
Proverbs 10:31Righteous people [MTY] say things that are wise, but God will shut the mouths of people [MTY] who say what is not true.
Proverbs 15:23People rejoice when they are able to reply well to what others have asked them; truly, it is very delightful to be able to say the right thing at the right time.
Proverbs 17:10Rebuking people who have good sense will accomplish more for them than hitting them 100 times with a stick.
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 →