Proverbs 10:13
In the lips of him that has understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
In Context
12Hatred stirs up strifes: but love covers all sins.
14Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
Cross References
Exodus 10:12And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out yours 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 has left.
Proverbs 6:32But whoso commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding: he that does it destroys his own soul.
Proverbs 10:10He that winks with the eye causes sorrow: but a babbling fool shall fall.
Proverbs 10:31The mouth of the just brings forth wisdom: but the perverse tongue shall be cut out.
Proverbs 15:23A man has joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!
Proverbs 17:10A reproof enters more into a wise man 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 →