Proverbs 15:4

Those who speak [MTY] kindly to people are like [MET] trees whose fruit gives life; speaking what is false causes people to ◄despair/feel very discouraged►.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.

In Context

3Yahweh sees [MTY] what is happening everywhere; he observes what bad people do as well as what good people do.

5Foolish children despise their parents when their parents correct/discipline them; wise children accept it.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:22Then Yahweh said, “Look! Those two have become like us because they know what is good to do and what is evil to do. So now, it will not be good if they reach out and pick and eat some of the fruit from the tree which enables people who eat it to live forever!”

Psalms 109:22I ask you to do this because I am poor and needy and my inner being is ◄full of pain/very troubled/discouraged►.

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 16:24Kind words are like honey [SIM]: We enjoy them both, and both cause our bodies to be healthy/strong.

Proverbs 18:14A desire to continue to live can sustain someone when he is sick; if he loses that desire, he ◄cannot endure it/will become very discouraged► when he is sick [RHQ].

Malachi 4:2But as for you who revere me [MTY], the one who will save you will come to you like [MET] the sun shines in the morning, and enable you to become righteous (OR, do what is righteous); he will restore you and protect you like a bird protects its chicks [MET] under its wings. When he comes, you will be very joyful, like [SIM] calves that go out from a barn into the pasture leaping joyfully.

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 →

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