Proverbs 10:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

Blessings are upon the head of the just All sorts of blessings are wished to them by men, and conferred upon them by God. But violence Either, 1st, The fruit or punishment of their own violence: or, 2d, The violent, injurious, and mischievous practices of others against them, deserved by their own violence committed against others, and inflicted upon them by the righteous judgment of God; covereth the mouth of the wicked That is, shall fall upon them. This phrase of covering the mouth, may be an allusion to the ancient custom of covering the faces of condemned malefactors.

Proverbs 10:6

6 Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.