Proverbs 10:11
The vein of life is the mouth of a just man; but the mouth of wicked men covereth wickedness. (The words of the righteous be a fountain of life; but wickedness covereth the mouths of the wicked.)
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
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 beckoneth with the eye, shall give sorrow; a fool shall be beaten with (his own) lips.
Cross References
Psalms 37:30The mouth of a just man shall bethink wisdom; and his tongue shall speak doom. (The righteous person speaketh wisdom; yea, his tongue shall speak of justice, or fairness.)
Proverbs 10:6The blessing of God is over the head of a just man; but wickedness covereth the mouth of wicked men. (The blessing of God is upon the heads of the righteous; but wickedness covereth the mouths of the wicked.)
Proverbs 10:32The lips of a just man behold pleasant things; and the mouth of wicked men beholdeth wayward things. (The lips of the righteous always know what is kind, or pleasant, to say; but the mouths of the wicked speak forth only hurtful things.)
Proverbs 15:4A pleasant tongue is the tree of life; but the tongue that is unmeasurable [or untempered], shall defoul the spirit.
Proverbs 16:22The well of life is the learning of him that wieldeth (it); the teaching of fools is folly.
Proverbs 20:15Gold, and the multitude of gems, and a precious vessel, be the lips of knowing (or be the value of words of knowledge, or of wise words).
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 →