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

Bible Comments

That winketh with the eye; that secretly and cunningly designs mischiefs against others, as this phrase is used, Psalms 35:19 Proverbs 6:13. Causeth sorrow to others, and afterwards to himself. But; or, and, as it is in the Hebrew; for vice is not here opposed to virtue, as it is in many other proverbs, but one vice is compared with another. A prating fool; who is so far from such deceits, that he runs into the other extreme, and uttereth all his mind, as is said of the fool, Proverbs 29:11, and thereby speaks many things offensive to others, and mischievous to himself.

Proverbs 10:10

10 He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.c