Proverbs 22:10
Drive away the scoffer, that strife may depart, and quarrel, and contempt may cease.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.
In Context
9A benevolent eye, the same, shall be blessed,—because he hath given of his bread to the poor.
11Yahweh loveth the pure in heart, gracious are his lips, his friend is the king!
Cross References
Judges 9:55And, when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was, dead, they went their way every man to his own place.
Nehemiah 13:28And, one of the sons of Joiada, son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite,—therefore I chased him from me.
Proverbs 18:6the lips of a dullard, enter into contention, and his mouth, for blows, crieth out.
Proverbs 26:20Without wood a fire is quenched, and, where there is no tattler, strife is hushed.
1 Corinthians 5:5To deliver such a one as this, unto Satan, for the destruction of the flesh,—that, the spirit, may be saved in the day of the Lord.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 22:10
9 He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor. Here is, 1. The description of a charitable man; he has a bountiful eye, opposed to the evil eye ( ch. xxiii. 6 ) and the same with the single eye ( Matt. vi. 22 ),—an eye that seeks out objects of charity, besides those that offer themselves,—an eye that, upon the sight of one in want and misery, affects the heart with compassion,—an eye that with the alms gives a pleasant look, which makes the alms doubly acceptable. He has… Read the whole commentary →