Proverbs 12:18

Health — Tends to the comfort and benefit of others.

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 12:18

Arno Geneva Study Bible

There is that speaketh like the piercings of (i) a sword: but the tongue of the wise [is] health. (i) Which seek nothing more then to provoke others...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 12. Here we have a number of proverbs handling the favourite subject of retribution ( Proverbs 12:2 f., Proverbs 12:7 ; Proverbs 12:14...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

like the piercings, &c. Illustrations: Saul ( 1 Samuel 20:30 . and Proverbs 18:21 . Compare Psalms 57:4 , and Proverbs 16:27 ); Doeg ( 1 Sam...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health. There is that speaketh - Instead of בוטה boteh, blabbin...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health. There is that speaketh [Hebrew, babbleth, bowT...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

4. A crown, etc.] Possibly there may be a reference to the crown worn on their wedding-day by bride and bridegroom ( Song of Solomon 3:11 ; Song o...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Thoughtless talk inflicts grievous wounds: if a wise man is present he heals them.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

There is that speaketh. — Rather, that babbleth, like the piercing of a sword, that chatters on, not noticing or caring how he may wound the feel...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER 13 THE TONGUE "A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his MOUTH: and the doings of a man's hands shall be rendered unto him."...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Verse Proverbs 12:9 . That is to say, it matters little that one is not counted as of any importance by his neighbors if, nevertheless, he is able t...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bre...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword ,.... Whose words are like sharp swords, cutting, wounding, dividing, killing; see Psalms 57:4...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise [is] health. Ver. 18. There is that speaketh lies like the pierci...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword Words that are cutting and killing; opprobrious words, which grieve the spirits of those to wh...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

18 There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health. The tongue is death or life, poison...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Speaketh like the piercings of a sword, hurtful and pernicious words, whereby they either corrupt men's minds and manners, or scandalize them, or i...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Importance Of Truth And Sound Authority ( Proverbs 12:17-24 ). In this next subsection the stress is on truth as opposed to falsehood, on auth...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 12:17 . Speaketh , literally “breathes.” Proverbs 12:18 . Speaketh , literally “babbles.” Health, “healing.” Pro...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 12:4 . A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband, as illustrated at large in chap. 31. Proverbs 12:9 . He that is despised, and hath...
The Biblical Illustrator

The tongue of the wise is health. Healthy and unhealthy speech Some men pride themselves on the pungency of their speech. They delight in sharp...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Proverbs 12:1 Instruction ; correction, discipline, which shows a man his faults, gives him a lowly opinion of himself, and ope...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

v. 18. There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword, his speeches being as rude and sharp as knife thrusts, their intention being to hurt a...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Daniel 11:33 ; James 3:6-8 ; Proverbs 10:20 ; Proverbs 10:21 ; Proverbs 13:17 ; Proverbs 15:7 ; Proverbs 16:24 ; Proverbs 25:18 ; Psalms 52:...

¹⁸ There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 12:18

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 12:18