22For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.
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Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me: …
The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore the LORD shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head;
So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. …
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-22)Solomon, in these verses, recommends wisdom to us as the best antidote against those distempers of mind which we are liable to, by reason of the vanity and vexation of spirit that there are in the things of this world. Here are some of the praises and the precepts of wisdom. I. The praises of wisdom. Many things are here said in its commendation, to engage us to get and retain wisdom. 1. Wisdom is…
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