Proverbs 15:4
A healed tongue [is] a tree of life, And perverseness in it — a breach in the spirit.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
In Context
3In every place are the eyes of Jehovah, Watching the evil and the good.
5A fool despiseth the instruction of his father, And whoso is regarding reproof is prudent.
Cross References
Genesis 3:22And Jehovah God saith, 'Lo, the man was as one of Us, as to the knowledge of good and evil; and now, lest he send forth his hand, and have taken also of the tree of life, and eaten, and lived to the age,' —
Psalms 109:22For I [am] poor and needy, And my heart hath been pierced in my midst.
Proverbs 10:11A fountain of life [is] the mouth of the righteous, And the mouth of the wicked cover doth violence.
Proverbs 16:24Sayings of pleasantness [are] a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and healing to the bone.
Proverbs 18:14The spirit of a man sustaineth his sickness, And a smitten spirit who doth bear?
Malachi 4:2And risen to you, ye who fear My name, Hath the sun of righteousness — and healing in its wings, And ye have gone forth, and have increased as calves of a stall.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 15:4
The Righteous and the Wicked Contrasted. 3 The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. The great truths of divinity are of great use to enforce the precepts of morality, and none more than this—That the eye of God is always upon the children of men. 1. An eye to discern all, not only from which nothing can be concealed, but by which every thing is actually inspected, and nothing overlooked or looked slightly upon: The eyes of the Lord are in every place; for he not only sees all from… Read the whole commentary →