Proverbs 10:11
The mouth of a righteous man is a welspring of life: but iniquitie couereth the mouth of the wicked.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
In Context
10He that winketh with the eye, worketh sorowe, and he yet is foolish in talke, shalbe beaten.
12Hatred stirreth vp contentions: but loue couereth all trespasses.
Cross References
Psalms 37:30The mouth of the righteous will speake of wisedome, and his tongue will talke of iudgement.
Proverbs 10:6Blessings are vpon the head of the righteous: but iniquitie shall couer the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs 10:32The lips of the righteous knowe what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh froward things.
Proverbs 15:4A wholesome tongue is as a tree of life: but the frowardnes therof is the breaking of ye minde.
Proverbs 16:22Vnderstading is welspring of life vnto them that haue it: and the instruction of fooles is folly.
Proverbs 20:15There is golde, and a multitude of precious stones: but the lips of knowledge are a precious iewel.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 10:11
10 He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall. Mischief is here said to attend, 1. Politic, designing, self-disguising sinners: He that winks with the eye, as if he took no notice of you, when at the same time he is watching an opportunity to do you an ill turn, that makes signs to his accomplices when to come into assist him in executing his wicked projects, which are all carried on by trick and artifice, causes sorrow both to others and to himself. Ingenuity will be no excuse for… Read the whole commentary →