18 There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
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18 There is that speaketh rashly like the piercings of a sword; But the tongue of the wise is health.
18 A rash speaker is like piercings of a sword, And the tongue of the wise is healing.
18 There is that babbleth like the piercings of a sword; but the tongue of the wise is health.
18 There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, But the tongue of the wise heals.
18 There are some whose uncontrolled talk is like the wounds of a sword, but the tongue of the wise makes one well again.
My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.
The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth. The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.
A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.
And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
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Commentary on Proverbs 12 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 12
Pro 12:1
We are here taught to try whether we have grace or no by enquiring how we stand affected to the means of grace.
Pro 12:2
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Pro 12:3
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Pro 12:4
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Pro 12:5
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Pro 12:6
In the foregoing verse the thoughts of the wicked and righteous were compared; here their words, and those are as the abundance of the heart is.
Pro 12:7
We are here taught as before (v. 3 and ch. 10:25, 30),
Pro 12:8
We are here told whence to expect a good name. Reputation is what most have a high regard to and stand much upon. Now it is certain,
Pro 12:9
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Pro 12:10
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Pro 12:11
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Pro 12:12
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Pro 12:13
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Pro 12:14
We are here assured, for our quickening to every good word and work,
Pro 12:15
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Pro 12:16
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Pro 12:17
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Pro 12:18
The tongue is death or life, poison or medicine, as it is used.
Pro 12:19
Be it observed, to the honour of truth, that sacred thing,
Pro 12:20
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Pro 12:21
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Pro 12:22
We are here taught,
Pro 12:23
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Pro 12:24
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Pro 12:25
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Pro 12:26
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Pro 12:27
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Pro 12:28
The way of religion is here recommended to us,