Proverbs 10:13
In the lips of him that hath discernment wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
12Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all transgressions.
14Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is a present destruction.
Cross References
Exodus 10:12And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left.
Proverbs 6:32He that committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding: he doeth it that would destroy his own soul.
Proverbs 10:10He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.
Proverbs 10:31The mouth of the righteous bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut off.
Proverbs 15:23A man hath joy in the answer of his mouth: and a word in due season, how good is it!
Proverbs 17:10A rebuke entereth deeper into one that hath understanding than an hundred stripes 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 →