Proverbs 10:13
Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.
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In Context
12Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.
14Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.
Cross References
Exodus 10:12The LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail has left.”
Proverbs 6:32He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.
Proverbs 10:10One who winks with the eye causes sorrow, but a chattering fool will fall.
Proverbs 10:31The mouth of the righteous produces wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.
Proverbs 15:23Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time!
Proverbs 17:10A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding than a hundred lashes into a fool.
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 →