Proverbs 10:6

Righteous people will be blessed by God; the nice things that wicked people say [MTY] sometimes conceal the fact that they are planning to act violently.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

In Context

5Those who are wise, harvest the crops when they are ripe; it is shameful/disgraceful to sleep and not work during harvest time.

7After righteous people die, other people are blessed as they remember what those people did before they died; but we will soon forget wicked people [MTY] after they die.

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Cross References

Esther 7:8He threw himself down on the couch where Esther was reclining. But at that moment the king returned from the garden to the room where they had been eating. He saw Haman, and assumed he was preparing to rape Esther. He exclaimed, “Are you going to rape the queen while she is here with me in my own palace?” As soon as the king said that, some officials covered Haman’s head, as they did to people who were about to be hanged.

Psalms 107:42Godly/Righteous people will ◄see/hear about► these things, and they will rejoice, and wicked people will hear about these things, too, but they will have nothing to say in reply.

Proverbs 10:11What righteous people say [MTY] is like a fountain that ◄gives life/enables people to live many years► [MET], but what wicked people say [MTY] hides the fact that they intend to act violently.

Proverbs 24:25but if judges say that guilty people must be punished, things will go well for those judges, and ◄they will receive blessings/God will bless them►.

Isaiah 3:10Yahweh told me to tell the righteous people that good things will happen to them; they will enjoy the blessings that they will receive for their good deeds.

2 Timothy 1:16But I pray that the Lord will be kind to the family of Onesiphorus for the following reasons: Often he cheered me up and, even though I was a prisoner [MTY], he was not ashamed ◄of me/ to admit he was my friend►.

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 10:6

5 He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame. Here is, 1. The just praise of those who improve their opportunities, who take pains to gather and increase what they have, both for soul and body, who provide for hereafter while provision is to be made, who gather in summer, which is gathering time. He who does so is a wise son, and it is his honour; he acts wisely for his parents, whom, if there be occasion, he ought to maintain, and he gives reputation to… Read the whole commentary →

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