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

Bible Comments

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 is acceptable to God and good men, or what is truly worthy of acceptation; for this is opposed to what is froward or wicked in the next clause.

Proverbs 10:32

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