The tongue of the just [is as] choice silver: the heart of the wicked [is] little worth.
Ver. 20. The tongue of the just is as choice silver.] He scattereth "pearls," Mat 7:6 he throws abroad "treasure," Mat 12:35 even "apples of gold in shrines of silver." Pro 25:11 "I will turn to the people a pure language," saith God, Zep 3:9 a "lip of excellency," Pro 17:7 the language of heaven. As William the Conqueror sought to bring in the French tongue here, by enjoining children to use no other in schools, lawyers to practise in French; no man was graced but he that spake French, &c. a
The heart of the wicked is little worth.] Est quasi parum, is as little as need to be. He is ever either hatching cockatrice' eggs or weaving spiders' webs, as the prophet hath it. Isa 59:5 Vanity or villainy is his whole study, and his daily discourse.
a Daniel's Hist.