Proverbs 22:10

Cast thou out a scorner, and strife shall go out with him; and causes and despisings shall cease.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.

In Context

9He that is ready to (give) mercy shall be blessed; for (out) of his loaves he gave (some) to a poor man.

11He that loveth the cleanness of heart, shall have the king (for) a friend, for the grace of his lips (or for the eloquence of his words).

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Cross References

Judges 9:55and when Abimelech was dead, all (the) men of Israel that were with him turned again to their places.

Nehemiah 13:28Forsooth Sanballat (the) Horonite had wedded a daughter of the sons of Joiada, son of Eliashib, the great priest, which Sanballat I drove away from me. (And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of the High Priest Eliashib, had wedded a daughter of Sanballat the Horonite, and so I drove Joiada away from me, and out of Jerusalem.)

Proverbs 18:6The lips of a fool meddle themselves with chidings; and his mouth stirreth strives. (A fool’s lips mix, or mingle, themselves in with arguments; and his mouth stirreth up strife.)

Proverbs 26:20When trees fail [or When woods shall fail], the fire shall be quenched; and when a privy backbiter is withdrawn, strives rest. (When there is no more wood, the fire shall be quenched; and when a gossip departeth, or stoppeth speaking, the argument shall be ended.)

1 Corinthians 5:5to betake such a man to Satan, into the perishing of flesh, that the spirit be safe in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. (to deliver such a man unto Satan, into the perishing of the flesh, so that his spirit be saved on the Day of our Lord Jesus Christ.)

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 →

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