Proverbs 10:11
The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
Updated King James Version
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 winks with the eye causes sorrow: but a babbling fool shall fall.
12Hatred stirs up strifes: but love covers all sins.
Cross References
Psalms 37:30The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, and his tongue talks of judgment.
Proverbs 10:6Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs 10:32The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaks perverseness.
Proverbs 15:4A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
Proverbs 16:22Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that has it: but the instruction of fools is folly.
Proverbs 20:15There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
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 →