Proverbs 18:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Are in the power of the tongue; are brought upon men by the good or bad use of their tongues. That love it; either,

1. The tongue; that love and use much talking, which is oft censured as a sin, and a cause of mischief. See Proverbs 10:19 James 1:19. Or,

2. The use of their tongue in either of those ways, which are plainly supposed in the former clause of the verse: they who do not only speak well, which a wicked man may sometimes do; or speak ill, which a good man may possibly do; but do love, and therefore accustom themselves, to speak well or ill. Shall eat the fruit thereof; shall receive either good or evil, according to the quality of their speeches.

Proverbs 18:21

21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.