Proverbs 10:13
In the lips of the intelligent is wisdom found, And a rod [is] for the back of him who is lacking understanding.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
12Hatred awaketh contentions, And over all transgressions love covereth.
14The wise lay up knowledge, and the mouth of a fool [is] near ruin.
Cross References
Exodus 10:12And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'Stretch out thy hand against the land of Egypt for the locust, and it goeth up against the land of Egypt, and doth eat every herb of the land — all that the hail hath left.'
Proverbs 6:32He who committeth adultery [with] a woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it.
Proverbs 10:10Whoso is winking the eye giveth grief, And a talkative fool kicketh.
Proverbs 10:31The mouth of the righteous uttereth wisdom, And the tongue of frowardness is cut out.
Proverbs 15:23Joy [is] to a man in the answer of his mouth, And a word in its season — how good!
Proverbs 17:10Rebuke cometh down on the intelligent More than a hundred stripes on 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 →