Proverbs 15:4
A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.
World Messianic 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 LORD’s eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.
5A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.
Cross References
Genesis 3:22The LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever—”
Psalms 109:22for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.
Proverbs 10:11The mouth of the righteous is a spring of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs 16:24Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Proverbs 18:14A man’s spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?
Malachi 4:2But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out and leap like calves of the stall.
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 →