Proverbs 10:32 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.h ”

• Proverbs 10:32 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Know - i. e., “Know, and therefore utter.” So, in like manner, the “mouth of the wicked” knows, and therefore speaks frowardness, and that only.

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• Proverbs 10:32 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Proverbs 10:2 ( cf. Psalms 3:7 ). righteousness: the growth of the conception of righteousness is an important subject. As in the Pss., there is a specific class the righteous opposed to the...

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• Proverbs 10:32 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  frowardness. See note on Proverbs 2:12 . Here plural. great [perverseness].

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• Proverbs 10:32 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness. The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable - And what they believe to be most pleasing an...

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• Proverbs 10:32 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable— The LXX read, The lips of the righteous distil graces; and the Syriac, The lips of the righteous acknowledge a kindness or benefit. The righte...

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• Proverbs 10:32 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness. The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable. "Know" - i:e., have the power, through...

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• Proverbs 10:32 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Here we reach the first collection of what were supposed to be Solomon's proverbs. Most of them consist of two lines parallel to each other. The parallelism is one of contrast, or agreement, or expla...

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• Proverbs 10:32 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  What is acceptable. — To God and man. (Comp. the gracious words which proceeded out of Christ’s lips, Luke 4:22 .) Speaketh frowardness. — Rather, is mere falsehood, misrepresentation. (See a...

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• Proverbs 10:32 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER 11 WEALTH "Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death." Proverbs 10:2 "O'er weening statesmen have full long relied On fleets and armies and exter...

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• Proverbs 10:32 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Blessing of the Lord Maketh Rich Proverbs 10:17-32 Let us specially avoid talking too much. Silence is golden. See Proverbs 10:19 . Yet the tongue of the just is as choice silver and the...

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• Proverbs 10:32 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Here begin the proverbs proper. In this collection they are antithetical, They present a sharp contrast between wisdom and folly in the outworking of such in practical life. Seeing that this is indee...

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• Proverbs 10:32 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin. He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth. He that hideth hatred with lying l...

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• Proverbs 10:32 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable ,.... To God and man; what is well pleasing to, God, and what ministers grace to the hearers, or what is grateful: and such things they will deliver...

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• Proverbs 10:32 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked [speaketh] frowardness. Ver. 32. The lips of the righteous. ] He carries, as it were, a pair of balances between his...

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• Proverbs 10:32 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom It freely, abundantly, and constantly brings forth wise counsels, as the earth or a tree brings forth its proper fruit, as the word ינוב, here used, prop...

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• Proverbs 10:32 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        31 The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.   32 The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh froward...

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• Proverbs 10:32 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Know, to wit, practically, so as to consider and speak. Knowledge is here ascribed to the lips , as it is to the hands Psalms 78:72 , because they are conducted by knowledge and wisdom. What i...

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• Proverbs 10:32 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 10:32 ACCEPTABLE WORDS I. The righteous man knows what words are acceptable to God from a study of Divine laws . The courtier knows how to approach his king—in what...

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• Proverbs 10:32 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Proverbs 10:1 . The Proverbs of Solomon. The nine preseding Chapter s may be regarded as a vestibule to the temple. Wisdom has been personified, and folly thrown into the darker shades. We have ha...

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• Proverbs 10:32 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Verse 1-22:16 Part III . FIRST GREAT COLLECTION (375) OF SOLOMONIC PROVERBS . Verse 1-12:28 First section. The sections are noted by their commencing usually with t...

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• Proverbs 10:32 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  v. 32. The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, they are familiar with it, they are continually meditating upon it; but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness, only such things as...

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• Proverbs 10:32 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Daniel 4:27 ; Ecclesiastes 12:10 ; Proverbs 11:11 ; Proverbs 12:18 ; Proverbs 12:6 ; Proverbs 15:2 ; Proverbs 15:28 ; Proverbs 18:6-8 ; Titus 2:8

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• Proverbs 10:32 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  The lips — Knowledge is here ascribed to the lips, as it is to the hands, Psalms 78:72 , because they are conducted by knowledge and wisdom. Acceptable — What is truly worthy of acceptation.

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